by Stephanie Scaife 1987 was a good year to be a vampire. In October, just a few months after the release of The Lost Boys, Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire western hybrid Near Dark was unleashed on cinema screens across the US. Although initially doing poorly at the box office, Near Dark was well received by critics […]
By Keri O’Shea Massimo Dallamano’s a strange one. With his background as a cinematographer for Sergio Leone (working alongside him on the seminal movies A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More), he brought a very distinct look and feel to his own movies when he moved into the directorial chair and tried […]
By Keri O’Shea “You don’t really know much about Halloween…you thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy…It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we’d be waiting… in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Lovely Molly was not the film I expected it to be. I purposefully avoided reading too much detail about it, as I often do, but I was expecting a tale of a haunted house, or of a woman’s possession. That’s not what I got. The film’s got ghosts and demons, in […]
Review by Ben Bussey Sharks have had to put up with a lot over the years, haven’t they? Kept as pets by Bond villians; blown to smithereens and/or electrocuted by Roy Schieder; facing the wrath of LL Cool J after eating his bird. So how do they fare when pitted against Academy Award® winner Halle […]
Interview by Keri O’Shea I think I speak for all of us in the Brutal As Hell team who have seen this movie when I say that Some Guy Who Kills People has made a big impact on us. If there was ever proof positive that a good film can revisit familiar horror tropes and […]
by Comix Cartoons are awesome. There, I said it, I said what we’re all thinking! Cartoons are freaking awesome, especially the cartoons these days. With such sweet, bodacious shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball, it’s no wonder I can’t peel myself away from the TV long enough to eat […]
Review by Tristan Bishop The dictionary describes the word excision as ‘removal by cutting’ – which, ironically, is the opposite of what we’re presented with here, as Excision is an elongated version of a short film from 2008 with the same name. It passed me by in the original format, but apparently did well enough […]
by Dustin Hall “What is blood for, if not for shedding?” This year saw not only the 25th anniversary of Hellraiser, but also the 20th anniversary of another Clive Barker creation, Candyman. The two are not, by any means, on equal footing, and it is daunting, in some ways, to do a retrospective on the […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Apartment 143 is an exercise in tedium if ever there was one, and a fine example to back up Keri’s recent editorial detailing exactly why we’re all so fed up of found footage movies and why they should be wholeheartedly discouraged, if not wiped out entirely from the horror genre. Apartment […]
Review by Kit Rathenar It’s only fair of me to admit that I’m probably not the target demographic for a film like Closed Circuit Extreme. Then again, I really don’t know who IS the target demographic for the flood of torture/rape movies currently going around. I’d quite like to find out, if only so I […]