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 […]
By Comix Comics and moral corruption have gone hand and hand for as long there have been youth to corrupt. Any writer with a bit of chutzpah in their inkwell have faced the slings and arrows of censorship. From the early 1940’s-50’s horror magazines that got shut down after the code to modern horror banned […]
Interview conducted by Nia Edwards-Behi In case you missed it before, read Nia’s interview with Midnight Son director Scott Leberecht. Midnight Son is a film about a young man who may – or may not – be a vampire, played with wonderful restraint by Zak Kilberg. Kilberg’s angular features make him a perfect fit for […]
Interview conducted by Nia Edwards-Behi When was the last time a horror film moved you? When did a horror film last tell you a really good, human story? It doesn’t happen very often, not these days, but it seems to me that with Midnight Son Scott Leberecht has achieved exactly that. It’s been a long […]
Review by Oliver Longden Blood Fugue is one of those strange novels that falls somewhere between a set of existing horror tropes without ever quite managing to capture the essence of any of them. Jimmy Kerrigan is a reclusive writer with a profound fear of the dark living in an isolated mountain community in America. […]
Review by Annie Riordan “Based On Actual Events.” God how I hate seeing those words at the beginning of a horror movie. It usually means that somewhere, at some point, some very small event occurred which is now going to be blown way out of proportion, sexed up for your viewing pleasure, and stuffed full […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Piranha may be more familiar to many as the Alexandre Aja 2010 remake in which Jerry O’Connell’s penis is chomped off by one of the titular creatures and spat out of the screen at you in 3D, or even its reprehensible follow up Piranha 3DD, but the original 1978 Roger Corman […]
Review by Tristan Bishop I will start this review by making a fair assumption about the readers of Brutal As Hell – you’ve probably seen a lot of horror films. And a favourite topic amongst horror film maker and viewers in the last 30 something years has been the serial killer. I’ll make another assumption […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s always a pleasure for us at Brutal as Hell to get to talk to indie directors about their work; it’s important too, because as often as we deal with the finished product here at the site, it pays to dig a little deeper sometimes and think about the motivations of the […]
Review by Dustin Hall Following in the footsteps of Pan’s Labyrinth, Don’t be Afraid of the Dark, and the Orphanage, Guillermo Del Toro brings his distinct horror styling to Mama, another film in his ‘dark fairy tale’ genre. Though written and directed by Andrés Muschietti, it still bears many of Guillermo’s tropes, passed down from […]
By Keri O’Shea If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to suffer from anxiety, there’s a fair chance that it’s also involved a degree of agoraphobia: after all, if people and unfamiliar situations fuck you up, then going out into the world where these things exist in spades is not likely to be a fun experience. […]