Posts By Anton Bitel
She Came from the Woods: A witty, funny slasher
October 29, 2023 | Anton Bitel
A family faces buried history this witty, funny, genre-leaping summer camp slasher.Read More
Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story: Charming, funny and empowering
September 23, 2023 | Anton Bitel
Bruce Fletcher and Peter Beard’s documentary and Otto Baxter’s horror short form form a funny and charming diptych on disabled experience, autonomy and empowerment.Read More
VOD film review: Smoking Causes Coughing (Fumer Fait Tousser)
September 4, 2023 | Anton Bitel
Quentin Dupieux’s hilarious tokusatsu pastiche is an unhealthy delight for fans of the director.Read More
VOD film review: My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
July 22, 2023 | Anton Bitel
Mark Cousins’ compelling essay proves there are still discoveries to be made in Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography.Read More
Return to Seoul: Melancholic and mesmerising
July 10, 2023 | Anton Bitel
In Davy Chou’s subtle story of identity, adoption and adaptation, a mercurial woman repeatedly returns to her lost roots.Read More
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: An inventive, moving gem
June 17, 2023 | Anton Bitel
This absurd tale of friendship and mortality is a whimsical yet wise joy, tinged with melancholy.Read More
VOD film review: Enys Men (2022)
May 8, 2023 | Anton Bitel
Mark Jenkin’s experimental folk horror pits an unravelling woman against an island’s topography, history and nature.Read More
VOD film review: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood And Honey (2023)
March 11, 2023 | Anton Bitel
Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s genre-fied exploitation of AA Milne’s characters yields a woodland slasher of little brain.Read More
VOD film review: Sorry About the Demon
January 19, 2023 | Anton Bitel
Emily Hagins’ haunted house horror comedy is packed with charm, good humour and – yes – a demon.Read More
Triangle of Sadness review: A funny, vicious satire
December 14, 2022 | Anton Bitel
Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque seaborne satire shows society as a sinking ship – and revolution as rearranging the deckchairs.Read More
