Friday Fright
Shudder UK film review: Hell House LLC (2015)
September 13, 2019 | Anton BitelStephen Cognetti’s found-footage frightfest shows the making of its own haunt.Read More
VOD film review: The Changeling (1980)
July 19, 2019 | Anton BitelPeter Medak’s modern yet old-fashioned gothic places a decent, damaged man between dynastic conspiracy and supernatural vendetta.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
May 24, 2019 | Anton BitelGidden Ko’s hybrid of cruel comedy and tragic horror makes a creature feature of adolescent anomie.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
May 10, 2019 | Anton BitelScott Glosserman’s metaslasher lays out the rules and obeys them too, just not in the conventional order.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Baby Blood (1990)
April 26, 2019 | Anton BitelAlain Robak brings an epoch-spanning genetic perspective to his monster movie of maternity and madness.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Phantasm (1979)
April 12, 2019 | Anton BitelDon Coscarelli’s Phantasm is a pre-adolescent’s pre-Lynchian fugue from mortality’s mourning side.Read More
VOD film review: Blood Punch (2015)
March 8, 2019 | Anton BitelMadellaine Paxson’s black comedy horror uses its Groundhog Day structure to capture cycles of abuse, addiction and violence.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Sexy Killer (2008)
February 22, 2019 | Anton BitelMiguel Marti’s postmodern postfeminist campus slasher is totally crazy.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl
February 8, 2019 | Anton BitelA.D. Calvo’s American gothic is a retro-styled mood piece haunted by the disappointments of desire.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
January 25, 2019 | Anton BitelArgento charts an artful exploration of a rape victim’s twisted trauma.Read More