Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: The Boy Behind the Door
July 29, 2021 | Anton Bitel
This cruel coming-of-age cat-and-mouse thriller is a dark, harrowing watch.Read More
VOD film review: Werewolves Within
July 19, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Josh Ruben’s hilarious werewolf whodunnit shows the divided community of America with real charm.
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Shudder UK film review: Superdeep (aka Kolskaya sverhglubokaya)
June 17, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Areseny Syuhin’s Superdeep uses body, bio and bunker horror tropes to allegorise the thawing permafrost of the Cold War.Read More
VOD film review: Flashback (2021)
June 4, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Christopher MacBride’s moving, mind-melting trip is this generation’s Donnie Darko.Read More
Grimmfest film review: Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)
May 31, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Video games and reality collide in this cheap and cheerful nostalgia-fest.Read More
Grimmfest film review: The Nest (aka The Bewailing) (2021)
May 30, 2021 | Anton Bitel
James Suttles’ insidious home invasion horror shows a family undone by mind-controlling parasites – or opioid addiction. Read More
VOD film review: Skull: The Mask
May 27, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman bring bloody bedlam and an allegory of national rapine to the streets of contemporary São Paulo.Read More
Dawn of the Dead: Looking back at Zack Snyder’s feature debut
May 22, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Zack Snyder’s debut feature reimagines Romero as a visceral, amped-up apocalypse in the shadow of 9/11.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Psycho Goreman
May 20, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Reducing the fate of the universe to child’s play, Steven Kostanski’s super-bloody lo-fi sci-fi pastiche is impossibly charming.Read More
VOD film review: Run Hide Fight
May 13, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Kyle Rankin’s horror turns a fictional school shooting into Die Hard-style entertainment with an even more uncomfortable morality.Read More
