Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
November 15, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Brad Anderson plays off cinema’s light and shadow for existential, apocalyptic horror.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Woodshock (2017)
October 25, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Kate and LauraMulleavy’s feature debut is a gnarled portrait of trauma, guilt and loss.Read More
Dolemite Is My Name: Infectiously fun
October 19, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Craig Brewer’s infectiously fun making-of meta-movie shows brothers (and one sister) doing it for themselves in Seventies America. Read More
Interview: Bertrand Bonello talks Zombi Child, horror and streaming
October 18, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Writer/director/producer/composer Bertrand Bonello is best known on these shores for The Pornographer (2001), Tiresia (2003), House of Tolerance (2011) and Nocturama (2016) – films that often deploy a certain icy distance as an alienation effect, which stimulates viewers to fill … Read More
VOD film review: Escape from Tomorrow
October 11, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Randy Moore’s psychodrama sneaks monochrome midlife malaise into Disney’s fantasy kingdom.Read More
MUBI UK film review: Zombi Child
October 6, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Bertrand Bonello’s latest is a multi-layered view of colonialism’s legacy, resurrected in every new generation.Read More
VOD film review: Honeymoon
October 4, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Leigh Janiak’s assured debut condenses all the alienating scenes from a marriage into an SF/horror-inflected honeymoon.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Hell House LLC (2015)
September 13, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Stephen Cognetti’s found-footage frightfest shows the making of its own haunt.Read More
VOD film review: Aniara
August 30, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja’s adaptation of a 2018 sci-fi poem finds bleak beauty in a nihilisitic odyssey.Read More
VOD film review: The Banana Splits Movie
August 26, 2019 | Anton Bitel
This high-concept horror crazily converts a beloved 60s kids’ show into gory mayhem on endless repeat.Read More
