Review by Keri O’Shea Jess Franco was (and is) ready to turn his hand to just about anything, so it should come as little surprise to find that he did, back in 1970, make a film all about the turbulent history of 17th Century Britain. In many ways, The Bloody Judge is rather an anomalous […]
Review by Annie Riordan Things I Learned from the Movie V/H/S: #1 – All men are stupid. #2 – All women are evil. #3 – Public Enemy was right. The hype should not be believed. I’d heard nothing but positive things about this movie, a found footage horror anthology which debuted at Sundance, boasted segments […]
By Keri O’Shea The Shining is a personal favourite of mine, and remains one of the strongest horror films I’ve seen – a film which retains its impact, even after many viewings. It’s safe to say I’m not on my own in that respect, as the presence of the documentary film Room 237 attests. However, […]
By Oliver Longden Horror franchises fade and die just like other organisms. What starts off as a vibrant exciting premise winds up puking and shitting itself to death in abject confusion while the rest of society does their best to ignore it like an embarrassing relative in a nursing home. Rarely has this been more […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I jumped at the chance to review Jackpot, marketed heavily as ‘Jo Nesbø’s Jackpot’, having thoroughly enjoyed Headhunters (‘Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters’), both film and book. I’m intending on reading more of Nesbø’s work – I would have already if I wasn’t so slow at reading – given my nascent interest in […]
Review by Ben Bussey “Oh please… make it stop! Make this throbbing stop!” That’s it. End of review. If those two lines of dialogue alone (and the photograph above) don’t sell Vampire Ecstasy to you, then there’s really nothing more to be said. Bye-bye. Okay, okay, I’ll let you in on a bit of the plot. […]
By Stephanie Scaife In a year brimming with Dark Knights, Avengers and Hobbits, not to mention the impending (if ultimately anticlimactic) apocalypse that was supposed to befall us last month I feel that 2012 has been a pretty weak year for us horror fans, where there have been far too many films eliciting nothing more […]
Review by Tristan Bishop I’ll admit it straight off the bat – I found it really hard to review Gut. It took me a few attempts to sit through the entire film – although one of these was due to a mysterious technical failure – and when I finally finished viewing it all the way […]
Review by Tristan Bishop “This is not a horror film.” This line from Berberian Sound Studio leapt out at me on viewing, firstly because one of the themes of this year for me is the question of what actually makes a horror film, and secondly because of the nature of the film itself. The line […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife This Irish creature feature is Jon Wright’s sophomore effort as a director, after the watchable if flawed teen zombie flick Tormented, and what an unexpected treat it is. Imagine if The Guard and Tremors had an oozy, tentacled love child, then what you’d end up with is Grabbers. It makes a […]
By Keri O’Shea So long then, 2012. As we come to the end of another year, a few of us here at Brutal As Hell have already taken time out to reflect on the year in genre film. If you haven’t already done so, check out Nia’s end-of-year review here and Ben’s low-down on the […]