Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: Lisa and the Devil (1971)
December 9, 2016 | Anton BitelEvery 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 BitelÁlex 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 BitelAntonio 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 BitelThis Alpine spin on the undead smooths over its broad stereotypes with some inventively improbable gore. Read More
First look UK TV review: The Young Pope
October 26, 2016 | Anton Bitel“Ever since I was little I’ve learnt to confound people’s ideas of what’s going on in my head”, confides Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) some way into the first episode of The Young Pope, before adding, “I’m also intransigent, irritable, vindictive … Read More
Shudder UK film review: Dearest Sister
October 22, 2016 | Anton BitelThe 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 BitelBorn 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 BitelThe 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 BitelHybrid horror thriller Downhill is “taking a shit on a hill” and seeing what sticks. Not much does.Read More
VOD film review: River
July 20, 2016 | Anton BitelJamie M. Dagg’s gripping thriller traces the moral fluidity of foreign volunteer work.Read More