Posts By Anton Bitel
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
FrightFest VOD film review: The Dark Red
August 24, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Dan Bush’s The Dark Red is a tale of maternity and madness, vampiric predation and class exploitation.Read More
VOD film review: Dachra: Curse of the Witch
August 24, 2019 | Anton Bitel
First-time director Abdelhamid Bouchnak assimilates western tropes into a local horror story of a nation haunted by its past.Read More
VOD film review: The Wind
August 24, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Demons and delusion come to an isolated frontier homestead in Emma Tammi’s bleak, pioneering debut.Read More
VOD film review: Dark Encounter
August 23, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Carl Strathie’s missing-child mystery wraps small-town domestic drama in Spielbergian sci-fi.Read More
VOD film review: Pet Sematary (2019)
August 5, 2019 | Anton Bitel
This remake resurrects the spirit of Stephen King’s and Mary Lambert’s originals, while still coming out different.Read More
VOD film review: The Changeling (1980)
July 19, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Peter Medak’s modern yet old-fashioned gothic places a decent, damaged man between dynastic conspiracy and supernatural vendetta.Read More
VOD film review: The Captor
June 21, 2019 | Anton Bitel
Robert Budreau’s reimagining of the heist that gave us the term “Stockholm Syndrome” is a strange, funny, surprising thrill ride.Read More
VOD film review: Starfish (2019)
May 28, 2019 | Anton Bitel
A.T. White’s beautiful, sad film uses apocalyptic genre tropes as an expressive tool for the isolating, dissociative processes of grief. Read More
