By Comix The French have released some of the gnarliest horror the world has ever seen. Works like Martyrs, Haute Tension and Inside have forced many fans to question not only their own morality, but the twisted notions of the creators themselves. Though the current wave of horror movies is relatively new to our coasts, […]
By Kit Rathenar I think this may mark the most times that Brutal As Hell has ever reviewed a single movie, given that we’ve covered this one here, here and here already. That being the case, I was asked in this review of Monster Pictures’ UK release of the already-legendary anthology film The ABCs of […]
Review by Ben Bussey Talk about expectation. It’s a noun, meaning 1) the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation, 2) the act or state of looking forward or anticipating, 3) an expectant mental attitude: a high pitch of expectation, 4) something expected; a thing looked forward to, 5) Often, expectations, a […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife I remember seeing Fear X at FrightFest 10 years ago and witnessing a rather terse Q&A session with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, where he took issue with the accusation of being nothing more than a Lynch wannabe by a put out audience member who absolutely hated the film. This is the […]
Review by Dustin Hall The Conjuring could be called ‘traditional’ horror, or maybe even ‘by the numbers’. Yet, I wouldn’t call it boring by any stretch. If you’ve seen any ghost story of the past decade or three, you’re familiar with this build-up. A family moves into an old secluded farmhouse which, being set in […]
Review by Ben Bussey As horror fans, one question we invariably find ourselves asking of any new movie that comes along – especially when it’s the work of a not-yet established filmmaker – is whether or not they have the requisite genre fan credentials for the job. There has of course never been any shortage of people […]
By Tristan Bishop If you’re in love with film, you tend to find something to enjoy in nearly every film you watch, whether it be a performance, or camera-work, or (in the case of horror fans), a nice bit of gore. Most films aren’t great, a lot aren’t very good, but there will usually be […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I’ve almost no doubt that there are very few genre fans – particularly those who frequent this website – who haven’t heard of The Bunny Game. Adam Rehmeier’s first feature film was a collaboration with the performance artist Rodleen Getsic, a stark and brutal examination of suffering and of release. The […]
By Keri O’Shea Few artists can boast such a versatile career as Francisco De Goya, although the great changes in his style through the five decades in which he worked were often tragic in origin. It is hard to reconcile Goya’s early work as a portrait painter to the Spanish royal court with the […]
Review by Ben Bussey What if the dead came back – for real? Not as rotting, mindless, flesh-hungry zombies; not as possibly mad Eric Draven-esque avenging angels. What if they just showed up one day, fully dressed, not decomposed, not brain-dead, looking exactly as they did the day before they died, as if nothing had […]
Review by Dustin Hall For many this summer, this is the one we’ve been waiting for. Pacific Rim. Giant monsters flashing us back to Godzilla’s glory days, mechs reminding us of Mazinger Z, carnage to the extreme, and finally, FINALLY, a movie that isn’t a remake, an adaptation, or a sequel. And they said it […]