By Keri O’Shea Here at Brutal as Hell, it’s not all fun and games. As much as we spend time reviewing movies, comics and books, we occasionally like to grapple with profound philosophical questions. Yes, it’s true; today, for instance, I’ve been pondering a very important distinction – one which affects us all, and one […]
Review by Annie Riordan Of all the crude, chauvinistic, immature gestures that little men with undersized penises make, my least favorite is the “suck it” gesture. The gesturer in question will flatten both palms, fingers together, as though about to execute a double karate chop. Instead, with pinkies in and thumbs out, the hands will […]
Review by Ben Bussey Send in the clowns. They’re a classic for creeping you out, aren’t they? Be they killers from outer space, phantoms that live in the drains or weird old guys carrying the dubious title of Captain, those red-nosed, white-faced bastards with painted-on smiles have been putting the shits up us all, young […]
Review by Keri O’Shea When watching a great number of modern horror movies, there’s something I seem to find myself wondering: am I, the viewer, meant to empathise with the twentysomethings who are so often the main characters – or, are they being presented to me merely as stooges, awful human beings who are about […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I have a feeling you might all misunderstand me when I compare REC3 to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. You’re all going to think I hated it. Well, no. I love The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 almost as much as the original, and when I say REC3 is the Chainsaw 2 […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Films can teach us valuable lessons about life, and one such lesson which has been repeated throughout the decades is that drugs are dangerous – from the pothead teens of Reefer Madness (1936) through to the sixties LSD scare films such as Alice In Acidland (1969) right through to more modern […]
Review by Ben Bussey Man, it seems a long time since Outpost came out. With the killer concept of hard-as-nails 21st century soldiers taking on undead Nazi stormtroopers, it was a film that seemed destined for cult status; however, for this writer at least it fell some way short of meeting its full potential. Now, over four […]
Review by Eric Lefenfeld The minor details can be nitpicked, but most post-apocalyptic tales tend to lean in one of two directions: they’re either The Road Warrior or The Road. Similar names, vaguely similar stories, but (literally) a world of differences. On one end, there is the wasteland filled with outsized anti-heroes and colorful villains […]
Review by Kit Rathenar Bereavement is a movie that seems to have hugely divided opinion on its initial release, between the claims of a certain subset of critics who apparently reckoned it to be the best thing since Psycho, and the reactions of ordinary horror fans who just wanted that hour and forty minutes of […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife I have to admit that I knew nothing of this story before watching the film and was somewhat surprised that I’d never come across it before. The Monk started off rather infamously as a novel, initially published anonymously due to its violent and sordid content, by a young Englishman named Matthew […]
Review by Tristan Bishop The Blair Witch Project. There, I said it. Back in 1999 a micro-budgeted film was catapulted into the mainstream, riding on a brilliant publicity campaign making use of the internet, then still quite the novelty in some circles, to fuel its ‘is it, isn’t it?’ appeal. Although taking some cues from […]