Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: The Medium
October 17, 2021 | Anton BitelPutting the sham in shamanism, Banjong Pisanthanakun’s terrifying mockumentary makes the medium the message.
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VOD film review: In the Earth
October 14, 2021 | Anton BitelBen Wheatley returns to his horror roots with this unnerving, apocalyptic woodland freakout.Read More
VOD film review: Bad Candy
October 4, 2021 | Anton BitelIn Scott B Hansen & Desiree Connell’s hilarious Halloween anthology, two DJs conjure a paradoxical world of small-town myth that bites back.Read More
VOD film review: Hail to the Deadites
September 27, 2021 | Anton BitelSteve Villeneuve’s reflexive documentary on Evil Dead fandom at times feels too close to its subjects.Read More
VOD film review: Prisoners of the Ghostland
September 17, 2021 | Anton BitelSion Sono’s first English-language film is a mash-up of oater, chanbara and post-apocalyptic action, starring Nicolas Cage.Read More
VOD film review: No Man of God
September 13, 2021 | Anton BitelAmber Sealey’s intelligent, complicated true crime drama interrogates Ted Bundy’s last years on death row without sensationalism or exploitation.Read More
VOD film review: Killer Concept
September 8, 2021 | Anton BitelDirector Glenn Payne and writer Casey Dillard play collaborating leads in this cliché-questioning meta-slasher.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Mystery Spot
August 30, 2021 | Anton BitelMel House’s mystery mixes a motel, mourning and metempsychosis, as lost souls check in to audition for the afterlife.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Bring Out the Fear
August 29, 2021 | Anton BitelA couple gets lost in the woods of their toxic relationship in this creepily disorienting drama.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Are We Monsters
August 28, 2021 | Anton BitelSeb Cox’s visually striking werewolf fairytale offers mannered, mythomanic rites of passage.Read More