Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: May (2003)
December 23, 2016 | Anton Bitel
Lucky McKee’s pansexual patchwork carves up perfection to celebrate flaws.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Lisa and the Devil (1971)
December 9, 2016 | Anton Bitel
Every other weekend, our resident horror obsessive Anton Bitel delves into Shudder’s selection of horrors to handpick a Friday night fright.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Witching & Bitching
December 8, 2016 | Anton Bitel
Álex de Iglesia’s broad coven comedy ritualises the gender divide in our own (and every) age.Read More
Shudder UK film review: LFO
November 18, 2016 | Anton Bitel
Antonio Tublén’s creepily surreal parable modulates the fantasies, follies and foibles of power.Read More
VOD film review: Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
November 7, 2016 | Anton Bitel
This Alpine spin on the undead smooths over its broad stereotypes with some inventively improbable gore. Read More
The Young Pope review: A nuanced spectacle
October 26, 2016 | Anton Bitel
This behind-the-scenes Vatican (soap) opera is a highly nuanced and elegantly mounted spectacle.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Dearest Sister
October 22, 2016 | Anton Bitel
The ghosts of a nation’s future past make this horror a deftly handled allegory of class and cultural clash.Read More
Interview: Mattie Do, director of Dearest Sister
October 20, 2016 | Anton Bitel
Born in Los Angeles to Lao immigrant parents, Mattie Do moved to Vientiane in 2010, and has since become a key player in the country’s emerging film industry. Her feature debut, the low-budget Chanthaly (2013), was the first horror film … Read More
FrightFest VOD film review: The Windmill Massacre
August 29, 2016 | Anton Bitel
The Windmill Massacre may be a bit of a generic grind, but at least its vision of limbo is renewable.Read More
FrightFest VOD film review: Downhill
August 28, 2016 | Anton Bitel
Hybrid horror thriller Downhill is “taking a shit on a hill” and seeing what sticks. Not much does.Read More
