Posts By Anton Bitel
VOD film review: Darkness Visible
May 16, 2019 | Anton BitelNeil Biswas’ Indian émigré horror is both a mystical murder mystery and an Oedipal chronicle of deaths foretold.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
May 10, 2019 | Anton BitelScott Glosserman’s metaslasher lays out the rules and obeys them too, just not in the conventional order.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Baby Blood (1990)
April 26, 2019 | Anton BitelAlain Robak brings an epoch-spanning genetic perspective to his monster movie of maternity and madness.Read More
VOD film review: Loro
April 19, 2019 | Anton BitelParty politics abound in Paolo Sorrentino’s imaginative portrait of Sergio Berlusconi as an ageing, empty salesman-cum-seducer.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Phantasm (1979)
April 12, 2019 | Anton BitelDon Coscarelli’s Phantasm is a pre-adolescent’s pre-Lynchian fugue from mortality’s mourning side.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
March 22, 2019 | Anton BitelXavier Burgin’s essential documentary insightfully surveys the history of Black representation in horror cinema.Read More
VOD film review: Under The Silver Lake
March 10, 2019 | Anton BitelDavid Robert Mitchell’s L.A. slacker noir puts the cult in mystery, concealing more than it reveals about the male gaze.
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VOD film review: Blood Punch (2015)
March 8, 2019 | Anton BitelMadellaine Paxson’s black comedy horror uses its Groundhog Day structure to capture cycles of abuse, addiction and violence.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Sexy Killer (2008)
February 22, 2019 | Anton BitelMiguel Marti’s postmodern postfeminist campus slasher is totally crazy.Read More
VOD film review: Piercing (2018)
February 22, 2019 | Anton BitelA darkly comic giallo-esque romance, torturously literalising all the dynamics of S&M, while accommodating the persistence of trauma.Read More