Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: The Tripper
May 26, 2017 | Anton BitelDavid Arquette’s debut is a so-so slasher elevated by its unexpected (but eventually overworn) political mask.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
May 12, 2017 | Anton BitelThough innovative in form, Charles B. Pierce’s cryptozoological pseudo-documentary on smalltown America also falls a little flat.Read More
Shudder UK TV review: Halfworlds Season 2
May 4, 2017 | Anton BitelEkachai Uekrongthram’ second season of Halfworlds makes its demonic struggles feel like they last an eternity.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Slugs
April 28, 2017 | Anton BitelCreature feature in which humans prove just as carnal and odd as the mutant slugs killing them.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Crazies (1973)
April 21, 2017 | Anton BitelPutting the “gory” in “allegory”, Romero’s film shows the madness of the Vietnam war in all its viral contagion.Read More
Shudder UK TV review: Halfworlds Season 1
April 7, 2017 | Anton BitelAt the head of the first (and every other) episode of Halfworlds, the clunking sound of television static can be heard starting up. It’s the familiar sonic ident to any production from HBO, except that this time the text onscreen … Read More
Shudder UK film review: Snapshot
March 31, 2017 | Anton BitelSimon Wincer’s Ozploitationer is a feminist melodrama ever tinged with the faint odour of burning flesh.Read More
VOD film review: The Void (2016)
March 31, 2017 | Anton BitelSilly but serious, this 80s horror pastiche is a cult film in every sense of the word.Read More
VOD film review: Pet
March 18, 2017 | Anton BitelThis abduction thriller gives erotomania and psychopathy several new twists.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Body Melt (1993)
March 17, 2017 | Anton BitelPhilip Brophy’s outrageous, uproarious body horror comedy returns Aussie suburbia to the primal ooze.Read More