Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: Grave Encounters (2011)
January 26, 2018 | Anton BitelThe Vicious Brothers’ debut gets every beat of its found-footage premise right.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Initiation (1984)
January 12, 2018 | Anton BitelLarry Stewart’s self-consciously derivative, overtly psychological slasher balances the silly with the smart.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Christmas Evil (1980)
December 15, 2017 | Anton BitelLewis Jackson’s Yuletide UFO puts the manic in Manichaeism.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)
November 24, 2017 | Anton BitelSergio Martino’s gothic giallo oddity is as much a whatisit as a whodunnit.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Dark Souls (Mørke sjeler – 2010)
October 27, 2017 | Anton BitelDark Souls’ apocalypse of banality plays fast and loose with its generic identity, but is ultimately rotten.Read More
VOD film review: Kicking and Screaming (1995)
October 20, 2017 | Anton BitelNoah Baumbach’s debut is a witty not-coming-of-age story set among arrested college graduates.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Combat Shock (1984)
October 13, 2017 | Anton BitelGiovinazzo’s sleazy slice of gonzo filmmaking is a gritty riposte to Reagan’s yuppified American Dream.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Death Bell (2008)
September 22, 2017 | Anton BitelChang’s feature debut is more interesting as social parable than torture porn.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Street Trash (1987)
September 8, 2017 | Anton BitelJim Muro’s outrageous, uncategorisable feature debut is a melting pot of America’s underclass.Read More
VOD film review: Don’t Go in the House
August 25, 2017 | Anton BitelJoseph Ellison’s grim coming-out slasher holds a candle to Hitchcock’s Psycho.Read More