Friday Frights
Shudder UK film review: Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)
November 24, 2017 | Anton BitelSergio Martino’s gothic giallo oddity is as much a whatisit as a whodunnit.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Dark Souls (Mørke sjeler – 2010)
October 27, 2017 | Anton BitelDark Souls’ apocalypse of banality plays fast and loose with its generic identity, but is ultimately rotten.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Combat Shock (1984)
October 13, 2017 | Anton BitelGiovinazzo’s sleazy slice of gonzo filmmaking is a gritty riposte to Reagan’s yuppified American Dream.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Death Bell (2008)
September 22, 2017 | Anton BitelChang’s feature debut is more interesting as social parable than torture porn.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Street Trash (1987)
September 8, 2017 | Anton BitelJim Muro’s outrageous, uncategorisable feature debut is a melting pot of America’s underclass.Read More
VOD film review: Don’t Go in the House
August 25, 2017 | Anton BitelJoseph Ellison’s grim coming-out slasher holds a candle to Hitchcock’s Psycho.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Bitter Feast (2010)
August 11, 2017 | Anton BitelLots of food for thought in this troubling clash – and slash and dash – between a chef and his critic.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Turkey Shoot
July 28, 2017 | Anton BitelThere’s more than one kind of camp in this excessive Ozploitation dystopia. Worth hunting down.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Blood Feast (1963)
July 7, 2017 | Anton BitelDirector: Herschell Gordon Lewis Cast: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Scott H. Hall Certificate: 18 Watch Blood Feast online in the UK: Shudder UK
Every other weekend, our resident horror obsessive Anton Bitel delves into Shudder’s selection of horrors.
Shudder UK film review: Spider Baby (1967)
June 23, 2017 | Anton BitelThis hilarious haunted house schlocker opens the doors on America’s demented, diseased history of horror, before burying it beneath the foundations of the genre’s next golden age.Read More