By Ben Bussey Might be a little late to the party with this as it’s been online a couple of days, but I couldn’t let this one pass without comment. I know as self-proclaimed explorers of weird and extreme cinema, we have our share of “what the fuck did I just watch?” moments. But how [...]

By Ben Bussey I’ll skip my usual new grindhouse diatribe and get to a more pertinent question: is this an unofficial leak likely to be pulled, or is it meant to look this authentically bad? I’m talking purely about the sound and picture quality now. I just caught this trailer at Bleeding Cool, where they [...]

By Ben Bussey We’ve long been admirers of Axelle Carolyn at Brutal As Hell, so it’s with genuine excitement we learn that Soulmate, her first full-length feature as writer-director, has completed shooting and is currently in post-production. Below we have the first two official stills from the movie, which premiered at Twitch earlier today, along [...]

By Ben Bussey Boy, it’s nice to have a remake about which we can say, “no, you really do have to see this one.” Where so very many remakes are nothing more than quick cash grabs retracing the steps of the original with little to no invention, Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac really does make a concerted [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 [...]

By Ben Bussey Sion Sono. Larry Fessenden. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. Jen and Sylvia Soska. Alex De La Iglesias. Vincenzo Natali. Marcus Dunstan. Antici…pation. I guess it was inevitable there’d be more ABCs of Death, particularly after the other (and considerably less interesting) 2012 horror anthology VHS has already spawned a follow-up. I could [...]

By Ben Bussey “Come on in, pussy lovers,” said Robert Rodriguez to a bunch of TV execs. “Why not,” they replied, and here we are. Well, okay, maybe there was more to it than that, but it seems RR’s El Rey network – seriously, how many production houses does this guy operate? – has joined [...]

By Ben Bussey After the well-documented troubles which the Ford Brothers and their crew had to face shooting their 2010 breakthrough The Dead in Burkina Faso (detailed at length in Howard’s book Surviving the Dead), I’m sure most viewers would have understood if they’d chosen to follow it up with a two-hander set entirely in [...]

By Ben Bussey So, there’s another eagerly anticipated movie on the horizon, and another marketing team have put their heads together to decide on the best sales point. And, once again, they’ve decided… it’s ass. Okay, it might not be the most lasciviously butt-centric artwork we’ve seen of late (a few of which I – [...]