By Keri O’Shea On her way to her shift at a dead-end diner populated by a host of lurid, colourful characters, waitress Betsy runs into a spot of trouble: a misunderstanding between her and a local homeless guy results in a nearby stranger feeling the need to rush to her aid – nearly getting himself […]

By Ben Bussey BAH readers with long memories may recall a few years back we raved about a 2009 microbudget British indie initially entitled Straw Man, later retitled A Reckoning, starring Leslie Simpson and Axelle Carolyn. An unconventional post-apocalyptic drama, Nia praised it back in 2011 as “a unique film that should be seen by many,” […]

By Keri O’Shea Frantic, clumsy, urgent, the first thing we see in 10 Cloverfield Lane is a young woman who turns out to be named Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) throwing several of her personal possessions into a box, before hurrying to her car with them and driving away at top speed. This act is not, […]

By Ben Bussey There’s always a special charm to horror movies set in amusement parks. The two institutions share a lot of common ground; we go there to let it all hang out, cathartically unload our anxieties, confront our fears in an ostensibly safe environment. Of course, we’ve all heard stories about rides going wrong, […]

By Tristan Bishop Your teen years can be a scary place, what with all those possibilities and unknown quantities rubbing up against hormonal explosions – things can get weird and extreme quite quickly, so it’s unsurprising that filmmakers tend to keep mining the teenage experience for horror films. Of course, the vast majority don’t really […]

By Keri O’Shea I’ll be the first to admit that I’m something of a fan of post-apocalyptic cinema: give me a filmmaker who can show us some unpalatable possibilities for humankind’s future via a dramatisation of just how frail our structures and norms are and, in an odd way, I’m happy. The opening scenes of […]

By Ben Bussey You can be forgiven for forgetting (or, indeed, never having been aware) that this film was coming. It’s been almost five years since the first images from the film came online, and the best part of three since we saw the first trailer; hell, Rose McGowan has quite publicly quit acting in […]

By Ben Bussey American readers – time to crack open a bottle of J&B, as we’ve just had word from producer Nicolás Onetti and director Luciano Onetti that Francesca, the new giallo made by the Argentinian brothers last year (although it looked like it had been made a great deal earlier than that), is on […]

By Ben Bussey The US team behind last year’s microbudget anthology horror Volumes of Blood are back in action, and now we’ve got the first visual confirmation of this in the form of a brief but attention-grabbing teaser trailer for sequel Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories. One of the key sales pitches of producer/director PJ […]

By Ben Bussey As an old curmudgeon, I’m often complaining about how much crap there is on the radio these days – but I’ve never experienced anything quite so disagreeable as a malevolent spirit out for blood coming through the airwaves. This, it seems, is the main hook of Dark Signal, a new Welsh horror […]

By Ben Bussey Given that it took Australian indie writer-director Daniel Armstrong and his team at Strongman Pictures almost eight years to complete their first movie, zombie wrestling movie From Parts Unknown: Fight Like A Girl (hitting UK DVD in May as simply Fight Like A Girl), they now seem eager to make up for […]

By Keri O’Shea Rumours about a Suspiria remake have been hanging around the horror scene for almost as long as this website has been around (which is a pretty bloody long time, all considered); various directors have been suggested, then they’ve been apparently, or allegedly dropped, or they’ve excused themselves, then the entire project has […]

Interview conducted by guest contributor Steve Gerrard, at Abertoir Horror Festival, November 2015 In October 2015, Johnny Walker – a Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University – in conjunction with Edinburgh University Press, released his widely acclaimed investigation into the state of modern day British horror films called Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and […]

By Ben Bussey It can be an interesting business covering DVD and Blu-ray reissues of older movies. Sometimes we wind up with stuff we always meant to see but never got around to; sometimes they’re movies we’ve never even heard of before. But other times, they’re movies which really need no introduction at all – […]

By Ben Bussey Those crazy cats from O.hannah Films went and did it. Hopefully you all saw in the last two months – either here when we reported on it, or elsewhere online – that the team behind 2012’s The Battery had a somewhat unconventional distribution plan for the follow-up movie, Tex Montana Will Survive! […]

By Nia Edwards-Behi The first trailer has landed for the atmospheric and eerie drama The Passing (‘Yr Ymadawiad’), which premiered at last year’s Fantastic Fest (see our review). It’s screening this week as part of the Wales One World Film Festival, before screening across Wales and the rest of the UK in April – including […]

By Nia Edwards-Behi Westerns seem to be having a bit of a moment, don’t they? I’ve been enjoy the glut of bloody Wild West tales since screening Bone Tomahawk (it’s the BEST Western since Unforgiven, you know) as our closing film at Abertoir last year. Anyway, the up and coming Swiss filmmaker Arnaud Baur is […]