by Brutal As Hell staff Intro by Marc Patterson Rock n’ roll horror. It’s got to be one of my favorite “good times” sub-genres of horror. Horror and rock n’ roll belong together. They were made for each other. Both are subversive and fly in the face of conformity. They challenge the status quo. Rock [...]

by Marc Patterson More DVD news comin’ atcha tonight. This one courtesy of the folks at Sony Home Entertainment who promise us a December 28th release for the fourth installment in the Resident Evil film franchise. In Afterlife we pick back up where we left off in part three, with Alice, (Milla Jovovich) continuing her [...]

by Britt Hayes Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 1 finale and the comic book. This week opens with a flashback, and one of a few moments that evokes memories of Lost. In this flashback we finally find out what happened when Rick was in a coma and Shane had to [...]

by Britt Hayes You can find part 1 of the gift guide – toys and collectibles – by clicking here! Mondo has this great Blade II poster from their new Guillermo del Toro series for $35, or you can pick up the snazzier color variant for $50. Hey! It’s our friend Natalie Slater of Bake [...]

by Britt Hayes Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 1, episode 5, as well as the comic book. In the aftermath of the zombie buffet midnight snack attack on the camp, Rick tries to contact Morgan over the radio and warn him about Atlanta. Meanwhile, it’s discovered that Jim has been [...]

by Britt Hayes Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 1, episode 4, ‘Vatos’, as well as the comic book. There’s something off about the conversation Amy and Andrea have during the opening scene. It’s so forced, and it feels like I’m watching two actresses acting in separate shows that were then [...]

by Britt Hayes Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead series season 1, episode 3, as well as the comic book. Merle Dixon is still on a roof in Atlanta, and he’s starting to go a little crazy. He feverishly talks to himself as zombies press against the locked door to the roof, [...]

by Marc Patterson It seems that we’re a day late and a dollar short with reporting here in the post-Halloween slump. Things will regain momentum soon, I promise. If you’ve been living under a rock then it’s high time you dug yourself out and got with the program. The Walking Dead is officially the hottest [...]

Book Review: Pariah (2010) Release Date: August 3, 2010 Publisher: Tor Books Written By: Bob Fingerman Review By: Kayley Viteo Here’s the thing about Pariah: it’s a novel about zombies, but it really isn’t about them. It’s not even about the apocalypse that the humans of an Upper East Side walk-up find themselves living in. [...]

by Britt Hayes Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 1, episode 2 and the volume 1 of the graphic novel series. It’s hard to believe there are only four episodes left in this very short season. I want to note before jumping in that the opening credits blow my mind with [...]

by Britt Hayes WARNING: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead episode 1.1, ‘Days Gone Bye’, and the comic book. Horror and comic book fans alike have been anxiously awaiting the television debut of The Walking Dead, the new series based on the popular comics of the same name by Robert Kirkman and created [...]

Book Review: Handling the Undead (2010) Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist Thomas Dunne Books Release Date: September 28, 2010 Review by Marc Patterson For fans of horror fiction John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel Let The Right One In is a hard act to follow. It seems redundant to even need to say it, but he’s had [...]

Siege of the Dead (AKA Rammbock) (2010) DVD Release Date: 25th October 2010 Distributor: Revolver Directed by: Marvin Kren Starring: Michael Fuith, Theo Trebs, Anna Graczyk, Emily Cox Review by: Ben Bussey When Michael (Fuith) arrives unannounced at the Berlin apartment which until recently he shared with his now ex-girlfriend, his primary concern is whether she will want to reconcile [...]

The Horde (2009) Distributor (UK): Momentum Directed by: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher Starring: Claude Perron, Eriq Ebouaney, Doudou Masta, Jean-Pierre Martins Review by: Ben Bussey As a dark night approaches, a small team of police officers sneak into a condemned high rise block of flats in a dead end part of town. Given that the [...]

by Marc Patterson Earlier today I was casually chatting with Cruella Moxham, an amazing new friend of mine in the horrorsphere. She’s going to be guesting next month’s uber awesome edition of Slash & Dine with the classiest gent in horror – Brian Solomon of The Vault of Horror, and she’s insanely busy planning an [...]

Big Tits Zombie Distributor (UK): Terracotta Directed by: Takao Nakano Starring: Sola Aoi, Risa Kasumi, Mari Sakurai, Minoru Torihada Review by: Ben Bussey Professional stripper Lena (Aoi) is a little down on her luck. Recently returned home to Japan from working in Mexico – and we know this because she brought a sombrero and a [...]

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) Release Date: September 10, 2010 Directed By: Paul W.S. Anderson Cast: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller Review By: Kayley Viteo Ah, Resident Evil. Or should I say, “Ah, Milla Jovovich”? Seems to me that these movies have less and less actual plot and, if it’s even possible, more and more [...]