Blood Between the Panels: The Video Revolution Begins – by Bryce Holland – Holy shit! It’s been well over two months since I last put together an installment of “Blood Between the Panels” (or as I like to call it, “The Best Damn Horror Comics Review Column Written by Me), but I am back ready to kick ass and chew bubblegum, but since I’m all out of bubblegum I guess I’ll just review some more comics. Before I really get into talking about… (read full article)

‘Harry Brown’ Sure Ain’t Horror, But it Is Damn Brutal – by Marc Patterson – As regular readers are well aware, there are times around here when we dip our toes into water that isn’t strictly horror, but only if that territory includes some high octane brutality and violent action. After all… we are Brutal As Hell, and have that reputation to maintain. Recently I got a press release for an upcoming British film called Harry Brown, slated to hit theaters… (read full article)

Corey Haim Passes Away at Age 38 – A tribute by Britt Hayes – Actor Corey Haim was found unresponsive in his Burbank apartment this morning as a result of a possible unintentional drug overdose. He was rushed to nearby Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. Attempts to resuscitate him failed, and he was pronounced dead at 2:15 this morning. Haim was one half of the “two Coreys” with friend and fellow child actor, Corey Feldman… (read full article)

New Trailer for ‘Deadfall Trail’ Keeps Up The Intensity – by Marc Patterson – The director of Deadfall Trail was cool enough to send us a new trailer for his film, which is the latest in this year’s offering of intense backwoods horror. As opposed to the previous teaser trailers (shown here) this one gives us a guide through the wilderness in the form of a slightly underwhelming narrator. However, get past that and you have a white knuckled immersion… (read full article)

The Devil’s Advocate: Oscars, Horror, and Why I Disagree With Most of You – by Marc Patterson – I wasn’t going to say anything, and perhaps I still shouldn’t, but I just LOVE playing the devil’s advocate. Sunday morning I announced that I would NOT be watching the Oscars. For me the Oscars represent a certain level of Hollywood snobbery that I have generally come to detest. I make sure to hear about the good films throughout the year…  (read full article)

SXSW 2010: Holy F*&kin’ S#*t! ‘A Serbian Film’ Trailer (Extremely NSFW) – by Marc Patterson – And the award for “Holy fucking shit what the fuck did I just watch!” goes to… A Serbian Film. In about a week from now our very own Britt Hayes will be sitting in a cool theater in Austin TX at SXSW getting an up close and personal look at this film, for which I can’t even believe I’m about to say… might be too harsh for even me. Okay… well that’s… (read full article)

DVD Review: The Donner Party – by Annie Riordan - The working title for this movie was The Forlorn, which is actually quite a bit more accurate in describing both the plot and the general ambience depicted here. The Forlorn Hope were a group of fifteen people who chose to break off from the original Donner Party and make the 100 mile hike to Sutter’s Fort in the Sacramento Valley in the middle of December…barefoot uphill both ways… read full review)

Slash & Dine March: Phantasm’s Falafel Spheres of Death – by Shannon Bucaro – This month in Slash & Dine Shannon revels in the glory of St. Patty’s Day, the utter violent excesses of Phantasm, and of course cooks up a killer falafel you’ll be anxious to die for.  If that’s not enough she packs in a fantastic video bonus revealing the winner to last month’s giveaway contest.  Healthy cooking and deadly movies?  Food and horror was never so much fun!  (read full article)

Dexter Season Five is Gearing Up To Be A Real Killer – Spoiler Alert! – by Marc Patterson – Today over at Entertainment Weekly some mild to not so mild spoilers for the upcoming season five of Dexter were revealed. Having just come off the best season yet I couldn’t help but take a peek at what’s waiting for us in season five, and the news warms my blood. For those of you who HAVEN’T had the chance to view season four, or are trying desperately (read full article)

Retro Review: My Little Eye (2004) – by Kayley Viteo – If I could give a one-word review of a movie, this one would be stamped with my BORING stamp of absolute disapproval. And therein lies the problem with Netflix Instant. Granted, I love it, but I end up seeing movies I normally wouldn’t seek out while I’m waiting for the next DVD to arrive. I have seen a few, some would say too many, quirky documentaries (my other love) because of it, but I’ve also… (read full review)

BrutalAsHorror.com Editor Marc Patterson Featured In Mr. Horror Blogosphere – Well there’s nothing like a bit of shameless self-promotion, especially when that shameless self-promotion comes in the form of being interviewed for Mr. Horror Blogosphere. I’d just like to thank Chuck Conry for putting the whole contest on. Personally this isn’t something that I plan on winning, nor am I too concerned with doing so. I’m just happy to have… (read full article)

‘Survival of the Dead’ Red Band Trailer Needs More Red – by Marc Patterson – Folks, I gotta fever and the only prescription is more cowbell! Well in this case, I at least need some more red gettin’ spread! The red band trailer for George A. Romero’s latest zombie flick Survival of the Dead has hit the web today in a maelstrom leaving limbs and body parts in its wake. It’s just too bad we didn’t get to see any of them.  What’s the point in releasing… (read full article)

Christina Ricci Has an After.Life - by Britt Hayes – I love Christina Ricci. Greatest actress ever? Not in a million years, but she’s just so damn cute and likable that it’s hard to not like her. I’d put Drew Barrymore on that same list until her incredible turn as Little Edie Beale in HBO’s Grey Gardens. (What’s that you say? You don’t know about Grey Gardens? Rectify that situation now and rent the astounding Maysles brothers documentary. It will change your life… (read full article)

Horror In Short: Connected – by Marc Patterson – Adding to our growing collection of short films is Connected, a new sci-fi western film coming at us from Denmark, and is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. As with most westerns the element of survival in harsh environments comes into play, but not just survival against the elements. You also have to survive the other guy out there. There isn’t much exposition given to any backstory… (watch film)

Sergio Leone Styled Western Horror in ‘Silver Moon’ – by Marc Patterson – I just got done watching the below five minute teaser trailer for upcoming horror western film Silver Moon and am not quite sure what I think. It’s got some serious potential that’s for sure, but I’m not a big fan of digitally enhanced gore and effect work. That reaction is probably more of a wishy washy feeling than director Travis Stevens would like to hear as his video page states that… (read full article)

Indie Horror Film Review: Slaughtered – by Ben Bussey – It’s a typical enough night at a remote Australian pub. The regulars congregate to drown their sorrows, whilst the pretty young women and men working behind the bar struggle to keep their hands off one another. But, wouldn’t you know it, something is amiss. People keep disappearing suddenly, and subsequently showing up dead not long thereafter. Someone has clearly had enough…  (read review)

Attack of the Crazy Chicken in ‘Zombeak’ – by Ben Bussey – It seems like an ordinary enough night down at Cooters, a downmarket restaurant with an uncanny resembelance to a certain other restaurant chain (in case you can’t guess the connection, all the waiting staff are bouyant young women in tiny white vests and butt-hugging shorts). The customers are either complaining or sexually harassing the staff; the manager is either stressing out… (Read DVD Review)

From the Library Book Review: Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ – by Kayley Viteo – here are many things you can say about Stephen King and I would wager that many of them are good. I don’t think anyone can fault him as a story creator – how someone writes so many unique stories in such a relatively short period of time is a mystery to me. Still, even though King wrote one of my favorite novels ever (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon), I do think… (read review)

Take the Mark! A Spotlight on ‘A Thief In the Night’ – by Marc Patterson – I was recently afforded the opportunity to interview each of the ladies on our crew for Women in Horror month. One question I intentionally left out was the overused “When did you first get turned on to horror?” Not only is that question overused, I tend to think it rather trite and contrived. For the most part, who cares? But in looking at our about page, I had wonder if there could be… (read full article)

Post Apocalyptic Boredom Sets In With ‘Metro 2033′ – by Marc Patterson – Seems everyone is going gaga over the latest post-apocalyptic first person shooter trip through madness from THQ. Metro 2033 is a new game based on a novel by the same name that is highly reminiscent of… well, everything that’s come before it. I personally have checked out the trailer and don’t see what any of the fuss is about. The monsters look unoriginal, the premise… (read full article)

DVD Review: Dead Snow – by Marc Patterson – don’t believe I’ve ever reviewed a film twice. That’s not to say that my opinions don’t change on certain films over a period of time. Indeed they do. When Dead Snow hit DVD I, like so many other horror loving fans, rushed out to snag this one up. The only chance any of us had to see the film prior was through the IFC On Demand feature, provided through choice cable TV providers. On my first viewing of the film… (read review)

Saturday Morning With Patrick Bateman – by Marc Patterson – It’s a snowy weekend up here in the great white north. I’ve got nothing better to do than sit around, drink coffee, and enjoy the company of horror flicks, and YouTube video’s. This morning I was cruising around the land of Patrick Bateman and discovered an array of fan made videos. A lot of the ones I really liked have embedding disabled. But the ones featured below are still a lot of fun.  (read full article)

Toss on Some Long Undies! It’s ‘Hypothermia’ – by Marc Patterson – Hey check it out! Today I got a couple of not-too-telling photos from the set of Dark Sky Film’s latest, Hypothermia, which just wrapped production earlier today, whilst in the middle of a good old Nor’ Easter in upstate NY. (By the way, what’s with all the outdoorsy North East horror flicks lately? I’m not complaining. I’m just sayin’). I’m told that “a large portion… (read full article)

Scouse Terror ‘Salvage’ Coming to UK DVD/Download/Select Cinemas – by Ben Bussey – Having spent almost a decade of my life in Liverpool, I can attest to there being some scary places and scary people in that neck of the woods. Still, generally I never had to put up with anything worse than being woken in the night by loud-mouthed drunks and/or their godawful music. I certainly never experienced anything quite so startling as a gun-toting military unit… (read full article)

Could the Sadistically Brutal Thai Horror Flick ‘Meat Grinder’ Finally be Hitting US Shores? – by Marc Patterson – Back in January of 2009 I made my first post about Meat Grinder, (see link here). When I made that post we were early into our news reporting days and it was one of the first times I gave some real thought to posting about films that US based horror fans were likely never to see. Why just tease when there will never be a delivery? (read full article)

Interview: Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton of New England Backwoods Horror Film ‘YellowBrickRoad’ – Interview conducted by Marc Patterson – During January’s Slamdance Film Festival I got the opportunity to interview Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland, writers and directors of the upcoming YellowBrickRoad. The film is a psychological horror film set deep in the woods of New Hampshire, on a mysterious trail called “YellowBrickRoad”… (read interview)

‘Deadfall Trail’ Promises More Insane Backwoods Horror for 2010 – by Marc Patterson – Thanks to the folks at Bloody-Disgusting we caught wind of a film that is now officially on our watch-list for 2010.  While Mr. Disgusting didn’t seem to care for the standard trailer, opting for the more gratiutious Bloodbath clip (both included below), I would have to kindly differ.  The trailer sets us up for the kind of psychotic madness that is bound to ensue when… (read full article)

‘Valhalla Rising’ – File Under “Golly That Looks Fun” – by Ben Bussey – Anyone who enjoyed Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto as much as I did should already be pretty excited at the prospect of him doing a similarly brutal Old Norse epic next – but judging by this trailer, he may have been beaten to the finish line. CHUD just posted this promo clip from ‘Valhalla Rising,’ the latest from Nicholas Winding Refn, director of last year’s Bronson, and…  (read full article)

Supernatural Thriller ‘Not Forgotten’ Coming to DVD – by Ben Bussey – March 15th will see the Region 2 DVD release of Not Forgotten, from Anchor Bay. Starring Simon Baker (Land of the Dead), Paz Vega (Spanglish) Clare Forlani (Mallrats), and soon-to-be genre fave Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass, Let Me In), it looks to be very much in the mould of Angel Heart; a hard-boiled tale with a liberal side order of voodoo… (read full article)

DVD Review: Dorothy Mills – Review by Annie Riordan – Okay, so raise your hand if you saw and liked any and/or all of the following films: The Gift, Straw Dogs, Carnival Of Souls, The Exorcist, The Bad Seed, Calvaire, The Wicker Man (no, NOT the shitty remake) and Don’t Look Now. *counts raised hands* One…two..three, four…um, five hundred and thirty seven thousand… okay. Well, most of you have seen and/or liked any and/or all of the above… (read full review)

Ghouls on Film – The Post-Fest Report – by Ben Bussey – Taking place in the Mixing Bowl theatre, a cosy little black box in Birmingham’s Custard Factory, this past Saturday’s Ghouls On Film festival was a very informal, intimate affair from the get-go; event organiser Nia Edwards-Behi admirably taking the inevitable delays due to technical issues in her stride. With little fuss we got straight to the films. For the features… (read full article)

Screw ‘Gone With The Wind’, It’s Total Grindhouse Mayhem in ‘Gone With The Pope’ – by Marc Patterson – I don’t live in sunny fuckin’ California so quite frankly my dear, I couldn’t give a damn about this screening. However, I get it… some of you do, and since I’m such a huge supporter of everything Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski do under their Grindhouse Releasing banner, and since we got the press release, we might as well post it… (read full article)

Anchor Bay Wants to Spit On Your Grave - by Britt Hayes - Anchor Bay has acquired Cine Tel Film’s remake of I Spit on Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman). You’d think with Anchor Bay’s acquisition we’d only get a DTV release, but that’s not so. Anchor Bay plans on releasing the film in the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. The film will get a theatrical release sometime this fall, with a DVD/Blu release in early 2011…  (read full article)

Herschell Gordon Lewis, David Hess, Sasha Grey Invade Your Home in ‘Smash Cut’ – by Marc Patterson – There’s no question that around here we’re huge fans of Herschell Gordon Lewis, and to further that I’ll readily admit that I’m a rather huge fan of David Hess. Throw in porn star Sasha Grey and horror fan favorite Michael Berryman and you’ve got one heck of an ensemble cast for a fantastic splatterfest. I’ve been following the development of Smash Cut… (read full article)

Women in Horror: Meet The Crew of BrutalAsHell.com: Shannon Bucaro – Interview by Marc Patterson – Shannon is one tough cookie from Wicker Park Chicago.  She’s the newest member of the BrutalAsHell.com crew, and writer of our original column Slash & Dine, having had the oven mitts handed over to her from our former columnist, Natalie Slater.  Since January she has wasted no time diving into the column, already putting her own fresh spin… (read interview)

Pilot Trailer for Swedish Psychological Horror ‘Marianne’ – by Marc Patterson – I had recently been talking to Swedish filmmaker Filip Tegstedt about completely unrelated business when I caught the screener for his upcoming film Marianne. I had already caught a glimpse of some preliminary artwork, which I won’t share here since I don’t have his blessing, but did reach out to find out more regarding this rather cool looking pilot trailer. (read full article)

Annie Always Dies: The Top Five Annie Kills in Horror History – by Annie Riordan – For the vast majority of cinematic Annie’s unlucky enough to find themselves in a horror movie, death comes quickly and – more often than not – quite gruesomely. From major horror franchises to direct-to-video forgettables, the name “Annie” has become interchangeable with the word “victim.” Don’t believe me? Read on… (read full article)

New Brit Horror Rumblings: ‘Ghost of Slaughterford’ and ‘Thunderchild’ – by Ben Bussey – The last couple of days have seen announcements relating to two of the most exciting filmmakers the United Kingdom has produced in recent years. First off, hot on the heels of the recent Centurion trailer comes the news that Neil Marshall is set to produce a new horror movie called Ghost of Slaughterford, written by and starring Axelle Carolyn. (read full article)

The Return of Video Nasty? ‘Expose’ Remake on the Way – by Marc Patterson – Cheese, sleaze, and violence extreme. Is re-invigorating the “video nasty” era of film the new “torture porn” craze? I dunno. You be the judge of that. All I know is that Bloody-Disgusting.com turned us on to a new film, a remake you might not even have heard of. The film in question is a Video Nasty from 1976, called Expose (which technically pre-dates the Video Nasty era… (read full article)

From the Library Book Review: Plague of the Dead – by Kayley Viteo – Nowadays, it is easy to run into a bookstore and slam right into a stack of the newest addition to the zombie/post-apocalyptic book world. In fact, you’re lucky if you don’t trip over the huge display standing in the center of the store. In a sense, this newfound popularity is nothing but a good thing, although it does make the gems of the sub-genre that much harder to find. (read review)

Women in Horror: Meet the Crew of BrutalAsHell.com: Annie Riordan – Interview by Marc Patterson – Annie… Where do I start with this gal? Annie is like a long lost sister I never knew I had. Several years ago I had the good fortune of meeting Annie not much more than after a couple of months into my year long tenure with JoeHorror.com. When I took off into my own direction to start up a website that would eventually become BrutalAsHell.com it was Annie (read interview)

‘Sympathy’ Continues The Hardcore Horror Offerings From Vicious Circle – by Marc Patterson – Following up on the release of Ryan Nicholson’s abortion gone crazy flick Hanger, and the nu-grindhouse stylings of Run! Bitch Run! comes Sympathy, the latest from Vicious Circle Films, one of the newest up and coming labels in horror. While Sympathy has been around for some time on the festival circuit it had yet to find a distributor to give it a chance. (read full article)

Women in Horror Month: Meet the Crew of BrutalAsHell.com: Britt Hayes – Interview by Marc Patterson – As a part of our Women in Horror coverage this month we’re taking the time out to interview each of the lovely ladies of the site. We start the series with Britt Hayes. Britt Hayes has literally become my right hand gal around these parts. She is an indispensable editor and writer for us here at BrutalAsHell.com. Her style goes well beyond… (read interview)

New Trailer for Neil Marshall’s ‘Centurion’ – by Ben Bussey – Courtesy of Axelle Carolyn’s Myspace blog (Yes, Myspace is still of use and interest now and then) here’s the latest trailer for Neil Marshall’s latest, Centurion. The movie seems to mark a dramatic shift in his career, not so much because of the period setting but more because the title doesn’t start with a ‘D.’ It does surprise me how much Marshall’s films seem to divide fans… (read full article)

A Belgian Giallo? And who said something about waffles!? – by Marc Patterson – To make it clear – I’m not late to the game in posting about Amer. I just haven’t bothered posting yet because so many other horror news sites else have done a pretty solid job of doing so, and up to this point I haven’t seen why I should jump on the hype bandwagon. But it’s getting down to the final yard line before the film hits various festivals, including SXSW… (read full article)

SXSW 2010: ‘Red, White, & Blue’ (but mostly red) – by Marc Patterson – C’mon – you know how it goes, so say it loud and say it proud! A-mer-i-ca, Fuck Yeah! Now get ready for some heavy hitting gutteral horror with Red, White, and Blue, the newest film from Simon Rumley. I was first introduced to Simon Rumley’s work with his incredible film The Living and the Dead. It was a gripping and visceral experience in horror heavily grounded in the concrete… (read full article)

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