Review by Stephanie Scaife If Machete felt like they were flogging a dead horse then Machete Kills is very much flogging a rotten, decomposed dead horse, which is as sad and depressing as you might imagine. Much like everyone else, I was fairly taken with Robert Rodriguez’s fake trailer for Machete that accompanied his and […]
By Comix Oh, it’s another one of these. It’s that comic that you’ve read a million times, the one with the group of secretly funded ghost hunters who travel the globe stomping out monsters. We saw it in BPRD, we saw it in Atomic Robo, and in Hoax Hunters, The Intrepids, Justice League Dark, the […]
Review by Ben Bussey Quoth the Bard, “what’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” But then, old Bill never hit upon this cracker, did he? Yup, as memorable monikers go, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza’s film definitely has a bit of an edge from the get-go. […]
Review by Ben Bussey On those rare occasions that someone might feel inclined to defend the flood of horror remakes that we’ve seen over the past ten years, one precedent we might easily measure it against is that of Hammer Horror. For the most part we tend to class them simply as time honoured classics now; the silver […]
By Guest Contributor Nathan Sturm Editor’s note: can we improve the state of modern cinema with a few, handy, easy-to-follow rules? Our guest writer Nathan thinks that you can, and I’d bet my last banknote that a lot of Brutal As Hell readers will agree on a few of these. Check them out here… 1) […]
Review by Quin There was a time when low budget films were either great or awful. A low budget used to mean that the entire production and the look of the picture often suffered. These days, I’m seeing a lot of films that look like hardly any money went into making it, but technically and […]
Review by Comix Leonardo Da Vinci once said: “While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” Plenty of authors have attempted to capture the meaning of this quote, from Dante to Nietzsche, creating works that flared the imaginations of bummed out kids everywhere. With the perfect dystopia […]
By Keri O’Shea Threaded through what little we understand of early British pagan beliefs – and one of the reasons they continue to hold such fascination is that so much about them has been obscured by time – is the central idea that Nature is cyclical, with birth and death not only following one another, […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Well, found footage films are still being made. In the past few years I’ve watched literally dozens of these films, and whilst there is the occasionally effective entry (The Tunnel (2011), for instance), most of the cycle ranges in quality from ‘dull’ to ‘execrable’. Found footage has, as I have discussed […]
By Ben Bussey September 30th 1988, and US cinemas found themselves hosting two of the biggest blockbusters they’d ever seen… that’s right, I’m talking about Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. And if that opener puts you off then I’d stop reading right now, because in this little retrospective I’ll be doing my utmost to lay […]
Review by Ben Bussey Well alright. It’s time to dust off that old phrase that we so seldom find use for these days: I can honestly say I’ve never seen a movie quite like this before. Oh, we’ve seen these kind of characters, we’ve been told this kind of story: but have we seen it realised […]