Posted on 01/31/13 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Nia Edwards-Behi In case you missed it before, read Nia’s interview with Midnight Son director Scott Leberecht. Midnight Son is a film about a young man who may – or may not – be a vampire, played with wonderful restraint by Zak Kilberg. Kilberg’s angular features make him a perfect fit for [...]
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Posted on 01/30/13 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Nia Edwards-Behi When was the last time a horror film moved you? When did a horror film last tell you a really good, human story? It doesn’t happen very often, not these days, but it seems to me that with Midnight Son Scott Leberecht has achieved exactly that. It’s been a long [...]
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Posted on 01/22/13 by editor
By Keri O’Shea It’s always a pleasure for us at Brutal as Hell to get to talk to indie directors about their work; it’s important too, because as often as we deal with the finished product here at the site, it pays to dig a little deeper sometimes and think about the motivations of the [...]
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Posted on 01/15/13 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey Everything you’ve read is true: the Soska Sisters love to hug. And, good grief, they really hug you. As soon as we were introduced in the Sheffield Showroom Cinema’s green room, just prior to that evening’s screening of American Mary, Jen and Sylvia Soska both darted in my direction and took turns squeezing [...]
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Posted on 12/13/12 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey Ozsploitation is alive and well in the 21st century, and director Stuart Simpson is right there in the thick of it. His 2010 bad girls versus giant sea monster flick El Monstro del Mar!, released in the US in the spring (when Marc reviewed it) then in the UK in autumn under the [...]
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Posted on 10/18/12 by editor
Interview by Keri O’Shea I think I speak for all of us in the Brutal As Hell team who have seen this movie when I say that Some Guy Who Kills People has made a big impact on us. If there was ever proof positive that a good film can revisit familiar horror tropes and [...]
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Posted on 10/15/12 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey If there’s one breed of movie monster that’s never going anywhere, it’s the vampire. That time-honoured balance of sex and death has long kept them popular both within and without horror fandom, and I can’t see that changing anytime soon. One of the most recent fang-flicks to reach the UK [...]
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Posted on 09/03/12 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey Michael Biehn’s The Victim just had its UK premiere at FrightFest, and is set to hit DVD and Blu-ray on both sides of the Atlantic in the next few weeks. Thanks to this we were able to catch a few words with Biehn and Blanc-Biehn, the husband and wife team [...]
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Posted on 08/06/12 by Deaditor
Interview conducted by Marc Patterson – July 2012 I first met James Newman many years ago, at some point back in 2004. We both were participants in an online horror film forum and right from the start I felt like he was a fellow compatriot in all things horror. He had recently published Midnight Rain [...]
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Posted on 06/17/12 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Keri O’Shea British director Johannes Roberts has been making movies for over ten years now: these have ranged from the Tom Savini-dispatching Forest of the Damned (2005) to the first made-for-mobile series When Evil Calls (2006) – but to date, Johannes is probably best-known for the urban nightmare ‘F’ (2010), a film [...]
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Posted on 06/14/12 by Deaditor
Interview with Such Great Heights director Jonah Tulis conducted by Marc Patterson Such Great Heights is one of the more amazing sports documentaries I’ve had the pleasure of viewing in my lifetime. I don’t say that to make some fluffy hyperbole filled statement. I say it because it’s true. Director Jonah Tulis was able to [...]
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Posted on 05/03/12 by Deaditor
Madison County Interview with Eric England and Ace Marrero Interview Conducted by Marc Patterson for BrutalAsHell.com BAH: Thanks guys for doing this interview. I just finished watching Madison County last night. I thought it was a fun little slasher. I didn’t think it reinvented the genre, but was solid and entertaining for that kind of [...]
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Posted on 04/16/12 by Deaditor
Interview conducted by Marc Patterson Plague Town is a brand spankin’ new novel from horror author Dana Fredsti. While the book has been superficially called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with zombies”, I’d veer to say that might be missing quite a bit of what this novel has in store for readers. Plague Town combines some [...]
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Posted on 03/16/12 by Deaditor
Interview conducted by Marc Patterson We’ve been long time supporters of Drew Daywalt at BrutalAsHell.com. He’s one of the most innovative filmmakers working in the medium today. His short films are sharply written, expertly directed, and often contain more depth of story than some feature films. (For a good look at some of his work [...]
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Posted on 01/26/12 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey This man requires no introduction. So… erm… Oh, okay, I guess I can say a few words in opening. By now you may have read my review of Inkubus (if not, click here); in which case you’ll be well aware that I wasn’t particularly impressed with it. But for all the [...]
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Posted on 12/01/11 by Deaditor
Interview conducted by Marc Patterson This year Lewis Jackson’s cult holiday classic, Christmas Evil, (or as it SHOULD be known –You Better Watch Out), is finally getting a long overdue theatrical screening in the UK hosted by our friends at Cigarette Burns Cinema. With the shake of a few hands, and a wink of an [...]
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Posted on 11/22/11 by UK Editor
Interview conducted by Keri O’Shea You want to know about enthusiasm? When director Fouad Benhammou found out, last-minute, that his movie The Village of Shadows (reviewed here) was being screened at The Abertoir Horror Festival, he was so pleased that he flew himself and one of the film’s stars to Wales for the occasion AND [...]
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