By Ben Bussey So how’s this for a slice of… erm… roasted silver? Wait, I got that wrong… ah, never mind my attempts at wit, you don’t care what I have to say, just watch the bloody trailer. We all know we’re dying to see this. Roll on, 19th July. Key revelations – 1) hey [...]

Interview conducted by Tristan Bishop Paul Hyett is very much a name to keep an eye on for discerning horror fans. Many will already know his name from his sterling effects work on so many great British genre films from the past 15 years, but with his directorial debut The Seasoning House he has delivered [...]

By Ben Bussey If I were to ask who the most iconic screen Dracula was, I imagine the answers would be wide-ranging. Presumably most would be torn between Lugosi and Lee, with maybe a few shout-outs for Oldman, and one or two bending the matter slightly by arguing for Schreck. However, if I were to [...]

By Keri O’Shea Life after a horror film festival can be an awfully dreary place, can’t it? There you are, just getting into your stride, forgetting that daylight is a thing or that the human body needs sustenance beyond tequila and cake, when all of a once you’re forced back to reality. God, I hate [...]

By Ben Bussey We’re only six weeks away from Ben Wheatley’s latest film A Field In England being released in just about every format known to humankind at the same time – and now we get our first look at the film in the shape of the official trailer, which Wheatley himself premiered on his Twitter feed [...]

By Ben Bussey Uh-oh… the ‘G’ word! Run away, before we get into another fevered debate on the subject! Ah well, wherever you stand on this whole neo/psuedo-grindhouse malarky, there are still some fun films being made under its banner. Horror have picked a few of the most notable ones from recent years, paired with [...]

By Annie Riordan, Keri O’Shea and Ben Bussey As you may have ascertained from Oliver’s retrospective on the Hammer Frankenstein series yesterday, this Sunday – May 26th - marks one hundred years since the birth of Peter Cushing, hence we have devoted this week at Brutal As Hell to celebrating the late, great man, and the indelible mark [...]

Review by Stephanie Scaife Mild spoilers ahead. The Hidden Face – or La cara oculta, Bunker or Inside as it’s variously been released – is a Columbian psychological thriller directed by Andrés Baiz (Satan), and although it appears to have been doing the festival circuit for a couple of years it’s only now making its [...]

By Ben Bussey Kurt Russell. The name alone is still enough to stop any legitimate film fan dead in their tracks. Just the sheer quantity AND quality of badasses he’s portrayed, including but not limited to his collaborations with John Carpenter. Sure, it’s been a while since he’s made a really great movie (though the [...]

By Oliver Longden 26th May 2013 marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Peter Cushing. Perhaps best known to modern audiences as the skeletally thin Grand Moff Tarkin from the first Star Wars film, Cushing was a versatile and immensely dedicated actor. He achieved worldwide recognition for his many roles in Hammer horror [...]

By Comix Sometimes, the strangest stories come from the most humble of people. What could at one moment be a sweet tale of childhood innocence can quickly turn into one of horror in a world a thousand miles beyond redemption. Sweet Tooth is exactly that kind of comic. It is a story of brutality and [...]

By Keri O’Shea As a general rule of thumb, I tend to avoid English language versions of J-horrors. Sure, the Far East has provided rich pickings for cautious filmmakers and those who fund them, but almost as soon as Ring happened, Japanese horror became a victim of its own success; no sooner had Sadako become [...]

Review by Annie Riordan So I’m going camping this summer. Actually, I went camping last summer, but it doesn’t count because #1 – I didn’t know I was going camping and #2 – it turned into an epic clusterfuck, which ended with me wading through knee-high pools of rainwater in my pajamas in search of [...]

By Ben Bussey Only two weeks now before Neil Jordan’s vampire film Byzantium hits UK cinemas, and we see if the old master can bring back some of that rare spark that made The Company of Wolves so magnificent. I’ve had my doubts on what we’ve seen thus far, mainly because the first snippets of [...]

By Ben Bussey This is curious. I was under the impression that we at Brutal As Hell were pretty much alone in unanimously despising V/H/S. Well, okay, I can’t speak for literally all of us here, but I can say that Annie’s thoroughly damning assessment very much echoes how both Nia and myself felt about [...]

By Ben Bussey I remember nothing about Chronicles of Riddick. I’m 99% certain I have watched it at least once in my life, but I do not remember a single thing beyond the fact that Vin Diesel’s in it talking at an even lower pitch than usual. So when I say that the Riddick trailer [...]

By Ben Bussey Marking the tenth anniversary of Jim Van Bebber’s controversy-courter The Manson Family, Severin Films have announced they will be giving the film the HD treatment for the first time, with a region free Blu-Ray set for release on the 10th of June. As I haven’t actually seen the film I can’t really [...]