by Ben Bussey “I have mastered your god! Accept me! NOW!” As film fans in the 20teens, just how often nowadays do we truly feel like we’ve made a discovery? Here in the wonderful world of cyberspace – with IMDb, Wikipedia and the proliferation of blogs and fan sites of which your beloved Brutal As [...]

Review by Marc Patterson John (Robert Nolan) is forty-five years of age and in the middle of his own personal hell. While he should be seeing his only child off to her final years of high school before moving towards “freedom” he’s recently learned that his wife has just gotten pregnant. His boorish, dull, and [...]

Review by Comix Do you like comics? Do you like free comics? Do you like comics but hate going places to get comics but instead like lying around on the internet like a piece of butter on toast? Well I know I do and IDW has provided a free glimpse at the first issue of [...]

by Keri O’Shea Movies released on the eponymous Indonesian label Rapi Films were nothing if not a pleasing fusion of East meets West; playing with recognisable genres, yet distinctly Indonesian in theme, you could always be sure of a mix between the familiar and the batshit insane. The Warrior is probably one of the best [...]

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND SACRIFICE PEOPLE Part II – The (Black) Magic of the Movies by Gavin Baddeley ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are [...]

by Ben Bussey Could Lovecraftian monsters be this decade’s zombies? We can but hope. The new wave of creature features boasting blockbuster standard special effects on relatively low-budgets shows no signs of slowing, and one we’ve been awaiting for a while now is Dead Shadows (not to be confused with Dark Shadows, which just so [...]

by Ben Bussey Between the time when the ocean drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of… a time when there was a conspicuous lack of movies featuring muscle-bound swordsmen doing battle with hideous monsters and black-hearted warlocks whilst quivering, nubile, near-enough butt naked women gripped feverishly [...]

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I wanted to like War of the Dead. I really did. The film even got me on its side right from the off-set, where the historical(ish) basis for the film is written on the screen, followed by the words ‘this much is true.’ How droll, I thought. How knowing! Alas that [...]

Review by Marc Patterson No one wants to hear another rant about the ridiculousness of 3D cinema, because at this juncture I think we film geeks are all pretty much over it. And to be clear – 3D is quite fucking ridiculous. So, I’ll keep that rant in check. But, one point alone bears repeating: [...]

Review by Ben Bussey How fondly and vividly I recall the build-up to Piranha 3D. From the moment those first photos came online, with Kelly Brook and Riley Steele dancing in their bikinis and throngs of nameless extras plastered in astonishingly gruesome make-up, my heart was captured, along with that of every other horror fanboy. [...]

Review by Annie Riordan (Sincere appy-polly-loggies to both Ronny Carlsson and Daniel Schniedkraut, who have been waiting patiently and without complaint for well over a month for me to write this review. I blame everything on school and kidney stones.) “This is not a film. This is a video ritual.” This is the only warning [...]

Review by Comix Teenagers are pretty scary, especially in Japan. In fact, a lot of things are scarier in Japan, but especially bullies. The bully problem over there is pretty brutal and with the combined pressure to succeed in school and conform at work it has created violent little fucks. Extortion, black mail, violence and [...]

by Ben Bussey Trawling back through the BAH archives, I’m surprised to find we didn’t cover Kick-Ass on release. I can’t really think why, for while superhero films aren’t generally our territory, this one most definitely fulfils our brutality proviso. And given that a certain superhero team-up movie currently looks set to be the biggest [...]

by Marc Patterson This is a bit of exciting news, even if we are a day late and a dollar short. (Big apologies to the folks at Mondo Macabro for unintentionally sitting on this news bit). It turns out that the rumors of the death of Mondo Macabro were a bit pre-mature. They’ve teamed up [...]

by Ben Bussey Tak Sakaguchi. Yoshihiro Nishimura. Machine gun limb replacements. Do I really need to write more? Well okay, the official synopsis goes like this: “Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after [...]

Review by Marc Patterson Often, for the genre geek, it’s a difficult thing to separate oneself from an original film to be able to watch a slick new remake, without one’s opinion being influenced for the negative. In the case of Mother’s Day this was surprisingly not an issue for me. Plainly said – I [...]

Review by Marc Patterson Penumbra is the latest film from the Bogliano brothers, an intense follow up to last year’s Cold Sweat that again centers on a sweet spot that these South American filmmakers seem to have mastered: women-in-peril, under assault, within the confines of a strange and decrepit old building. We’ve seen it in [...]