By Keri O’Shea Warning – as this retrospective contains a detailed discussion of the film, it as such CONTAINS SPOILERS. Well, last time I checked, this website was still called Brutal As Hell – and so, it is fitting that we should take a moment to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the UK release of […]
Review by Tristan Bishop The horror anthology film has a long and chequered history – from the rightly-lauded Ealing Studios curveball Dead Of Night (1945) through the 60s/70s Amicus boom (which brought us classics like 1965’s Dr Terror’s House Of Horrors and 1974’s From Beyond The Grave, but also climaxed in one of the worst […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife I can clearly picture the artwork of the From Beyond VHS, as it was burned into my retinas as a child, peering at the lurid titles in the horror section of my local video store. So I’m genuinely shocked that it’s taken me approximately 20 years to actually get around to […]
Review by Ben Bussey Towards the end of this film, one of the few surviving characters asks another whether or not fate, destiny or whatever might have played a role in the preceding events, to which the other succinctly replies, “I think shit happens, and then you die.” In a way, this exchange quite neatly sums […]
By Stephanie Scaife I’d just like to start by saying that I fucking hate Valentine’s Day. This isn’t because I’m bitter but because I hate the marketing, the blatant fleecing all in the name of romance, the pink love hearts and special displays in stores hawking their finest selection of Nicholas Sparks books, Jennifer Aniston […]
By Keri O’Shea and Annie Riordan Keri: Happy Valentine’s Day. Is February still with us? It is? Jeez… Anyway, so far we’ve talked about our experiences as horror fans and misconceptions relating to that – but there’s no fandom without the films themselves after all, so it’s high time we talked about life on the […]
Review by Annie Riordan “Little Betty’s sleeping in the graveyard, living there in burgundy and white. Dead babies can’t take care of themselves, dead babies can’t take things off the shelf. Well, we didn’t love you anyway. Goodbye, Little Betty…” ~ Alice Cooper Wow, what a pretentious piece of shit this film is. Overlong, tedious, […]
Review by Ben Bussey Kiddie horror is a wonderful thing which we shouldn’t be afraid to embrace as grown-ups. Most lifelong horror fans start early, and I think it’s fair to say that for a lot of us our entry point to the genre is likely to be a movie with something of a juvenile […]
Review by Ben Bussey Let me get the nit-picking out of the way first: goodness gracious, great balls of banality, is Sinister a prosaic title or what? Fine, so it evokes the atmosphere of the piece, but really, was it a choice between that and Spooky/Eerie/Moody etc? This on top of the prominent credit “From […]
Review by Annie Riordan Spoiler warning. It’s so difficult to review a boring movie. It’s like trying to describe the difference between ecru and beige to a color blind albino. Not that nothing interesting happens in Indiscretion. A ton of shit happens. There’s naked nude people having sex, and there’s blood and… more nudity-nakedness sex […]
Review by Tristan Bishop “Don’t believe the hype” suggested Public Enemy, way back in the mists of time, at the dawn of recorded culture (the late eighties). It was a warning that subsequent generations of humanity could do with heeding, and it seems particularly relevant at the moment, with several releases from the last six […]