Posts By Anton Bitel
Final Days review: Haunting zombie pandemic drama
April 12, 2021 | Anton BitelJohnny Martin’s zombie flick about the unfolding of a pandemic dramatises the damage that isolation can do to a person.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Power (2021)
April 8, 2021 | Anton BitelCorinna Faith’s 1974-set ghost story conceals in its dark hospital corridors a parable of female repression and revenge.Read More
VOD film review: Red River Road (2020)
April 4, 2021 | Anton BitelPaul Schuyler’s unsettling and disorienting pandemic psychodrama takes us from family vérité to lockdown freakout.Read More
VOD film review: The Night
April 1, 2021 | Anton BitelKourosh Ahari’s disorienting ghost story books a guilt-laden Iranian couple into a hell of mirrors.Read More
VOD film review: Honeydew
March 29, 2021 | Anton BitelDevereux Milburn’s funny, horrifying debut is a queasily nightmarish fable of America’s food chain.Read More
VOD film review: The Banishing
March 26, 2021 | Anton BitelThe forces of fascism, patriarchy and misogyny are ever resurgent in Chris Smith’s ghostly pre-war gothic horror.Read More
VOD film review: Creation Stories
March 20, 2021 | Anton BitelThis bravura semi-fictionalised biopic of 90s music label owner Alan McGee has wit and brio to spare.Read More
VOD film review: Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
March 19, 2021 | Anton BitelLili Horvát’s mystery finds a neurosurgeon in fugue to a romance that she may have imagined.Read More
VOD film review: Slaxx (2020)
March 18, 2021 | Anton BitelElza Kephart’s hilarious killer jeans horror skewers an exploitative clothing industry with bloodthirsty satire.Read More
VOD film review: Come True
March 15, 2021 | Anton BitelAnthony Scott Burns’ beautiful, disturbing, oneiric enigma occupies a liminal space on the edge of sleep.Read More