Posts By Anton Bitel
Netflix UK film review: Death Note (2017)
August 22, 2017 | Anton BitelThrillingly twisty and darkly funny, Adam Wingard’s American take on the Death Note mythos is the latest word on the diabolical irresponsibility of adolescence.Read More
Interview: Adam Wingard talks Death Note and moving from “mumblegore” to Netflix
August 21, 2017 | Anton BitelAdam Wingard is one of the most important horror directors of the new millennium.
The filmmaker debuted with the ultra-low-budget, Bill Moseley-starring Homesick and ‘acid horror’ Pop Skull. Both were collaborations with E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills), but his next … Read More
Shudder UK film review: Bitter Feast (2010)
August 11, 2017 | Anton BitelLots of food for thought in this troubling clash – and slash and dash – between a chef and his critic.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Turkey Shoot
July 28, 2017 | Anton BitelThere’s more than one kind of camp in this excessive Ozploitation dystopia. Worth hunting down.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Kuso (2017)
July 21, 2017 | Anton BitelToilet humour, fart jokes and anal obsessions make the uncategorisable but shocking Kuso something of a royal flush.Read More
VOD film review: Personal Shopper
July 17, 2017 | Anton BitelOlivier Assayas captures the uncertainty of the digital age in a haunting drama of isolation.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Blood Feast (1963)
July 7, 2017 | Anton BitelDirector: Herschell Gordon Lewis Cast: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Scott H. Hall Certificate: 18 Watch Blood Feast online in the UK: Shudder UK
Every other weekend, our resident horror obsessive Anton Bitel delves into Shudder’s selection of horrors.
Shudder UK film review: Spider Baby (1967)
June 23, 2017 | Anton BitelThis hilarious haunted house schlocker opens the doors on America’s demented, diseased history of horror, before burying it beneath the foundations of the genre’s next golden age.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Children (1980)
June 9, 2017 | Anton BitelMax Kalmanowicz’s low-budget chiller sets a community’s kids upon America’s nuclear family.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Primal Screen
June 7, 2017 | Anton BitelRodney Ascher’s documentary goes deep into the uncanny valley of the dolls.Read More