DVD Review: Bong of the Dead

Review by Ben Bussey Guess what: it’s zombie apocalypse time again. However, this time around things aren’t completely hopeless for the surviving humans, as the government manages to round up the bulk of the zombies and dump them in designated ‘danger zones.’ Alas, for professional stoners Edwin (Mark Wynn) and Tommy (Jy Harris), there proves […]

DVD Review: Takashi Miike’s ‘Crows Zero’ (2008)

Review by Keri O’Shea “There is no clean fight in a war.” Like many cult movie enthusiasts, I declare myself to be a huge fan of the films of Takashi Miike but in truth, I have only seen a tiny fraction of his work. To be fair, it’s hard to keep up with his output […]

DVD Review: The Yellow Sea

Review by Keri O’Shea  Some of the hardest things to watch unfold on screen are tales in which ordinary people – people  who are perhaps only once-removed from being any one of us, thanks to an event in their lives – are propelled into extraordinary circumstances, as they simply try to get by. This isn’t […]

Film Review: ‘The Raven’

Review by Keri O’Shea The Raven feels as though it has sneaked up on its audience a bit. I remember hearing about this proposed release a long time ago: my initial excitement gave way to a sneaking suspicion that the whole project had collapsed in on itself, as so often happens to compelling projects – […]

Ia! Ia! Lovecraft at the Movies

by Keri O’Shea “We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.” Those of you who are regular visitors to Brutal as Hell might […]

DVD Review: ‘A Horrible Way To Die’

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi This keeps happening to me. I hear about a film. I avoid the specifics of why everyone loves it. It becomes something of a festival darling or a genre fan favourite. Then, I eventually watch it and… oh. That’s it? Is the hype machine doing its worst, here, or am I […]

Blu-ray Review: Corman’s World – Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Review by Ben Bussey What makes a rebel? The dictionary definition is “1. a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country; 2. a person who resists any authority, control or tradition.” Presumably we’re safe to disregard the first definition in relation to […]