Posts By Anton Bitel
VOD film review: The Columnist
March 12, 2021 | Anton BitelIvo van Aart’s serial killer satire is a darkly comic post-feminist revenge pic.Read More
Glasgow Film Festival review: Out of the World
March 7, 2021 | Anton BitelMarc Fouchard’s synaesthetic psychodrama offers a heady mix of musicality, mania, misogyny, murder and mood.Read More
Glasgow Film Festival review: American Badger (aka The Badger)
March 6, 2021 | Anton BitelKirk Caouette’s hitman movie is at once an action extravaganza and moody existential noir.Read More
Netflix UK film review: The Old Ways
March 5, 2021 | Anton BitelChristopher Alender’s layered horror uses the tropes of exorcism to stage cross-border, cross-cultural clashes.Read More
VOD film review: The Stylist
March 1, 2021 | Anton BitelJill Gevargizian’s superlative psychodrama marries a deranged stylist to her client in a messy union.Read More
VOD film review: Benny Loves You
February 15, 2021 | Anton BitelKarl Holt’s feature debut finds a hilariously playful side to a man-child’s darker impulses. Read More
VOD film review: Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
February 9, 2021 | Anton BitelThis lurid inverted slasher delivers on expectations with an unhinged glee.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Queen of Black Magic (Ratu Ilmu Hitam)
January 29, 2021 | Anton BitelKimo Stamboel’s slow-build ghost story allegorises a generation struggling to extricate itself from the past.Read More
VOD film review: Hosts (2020)
January 18, 2021 | Anton BitelThis cruel Christmas cracker stuffed with sci-fi and apocalyptic ultraviolence will haunt you long after its end credits.Read More
2020: The year horror came home
December 27, 2020 | Anton BitelA magazine such as this would not even exist were it not for the natural drift, in this digital age, of all films onto the Internet. Even titles that start with a big traditional theatrical release eventually end up online … Read More