Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: Superdeep (aka Kolskaya sverhglubokaya)
June 17, 2021 | Anton BitelAreseny Syuhin’s Superdeep uses body, bio and bunker horror tropes to allegorise the thawing permafrost of the Cold War.Read More
VOD film review: Flashback (2021)
June 4, 2021 | Anton BitelChristopher MacBride’s moving, mind-melting trip is this generation’s Donnie Darko.Read More
VOD film review: Skull: The Mask
May 27, 2021 | Anton BitelArmando Fonseca and Kapel Furman bring bloody bedlam and an allegory of national rapine to the streets of contemporary São Paulo.Read More
Dawn of the Dead: Looking back at Zack Snyder’s feature debut
May 22, 2021 | Anton BitelZack Snyder’s debut feature reimagines Romero as a visceral, amped-up apocalypse in the shadow of 9/11.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Psycho Goreman
May 20, 2021 | Anton BitelReducing the fate of the universe to child’s play, Steven Kostanski’s super-bloody lo-fi sci-fi pastiche is impossibly charming.Read More
VOD film review: Run Hide Fight
May 13, 2021 | Anton BitelKyle Rankin’s horror turns a fictional school shooting into Die Hard-style entertainment with an even more uncomfortable morality.Read More
VOD film review: Threshold (2020)
May 3, 2021 | Anton BitelThis charming no-budget cult movie takes a fragile sibling bond for a funny, freaky test drive.Read More
For the Sake of Vicious review: A hilarious and tense thriller
April 19, 2021 | Anton BitelGabriel Carrer and Reese Eveneshen’s low-rent action thriller is as darkly hilarious as it is terrifyingly tense.Read More
The Reckoning review: An atmospheric, uneven witchy horror
April 16, 2021 | Anton BitelNeil Marshall’s myth of a witch turning on her accusers is part serious outcry, part bawdy farce.Read More
Playhouse review: Creepy gothic horror
April 16, 2021 | Anton BitelThe Watts brothers’ creepy and confounding feature debut is an atmospheric gothic horror.Read More