Friday Frights
VOD film review: Scanners (1981)
September 14, 2018 | Anton BitelDavid Cronenberg’s coolly clinical sci-fi Scanners is mind-blowing art for outsiders.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Demons (1985)
August 31, 2018 | Anton BitelLamberto Bava’s postmodern pandemonium presents the potential of horror viewing itself to unleash the beast within. Read More
Shudder UK film review: Mirror Mirror (1990)
June 8, 2018 | Anton BitelPutting the entity in adolescent identity, arina Sargenti’s horror film holds a postmodern mirror to teen empowerment, narcissism and sociopathy.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Patrick (1978)
April 6, 2018 | Anton BitelRichard Franklin’s thriller injects medical ethics with a psychosexual cocktail.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Arachnid (2001)
March 23, 2018 | Anton BitelTurn-of the-Millennium giant spider flicks don’t come bigger, or dumber, than this big bug-gy B-movie.Read More
VOD film review: Stake Land
February 23, 2018 | Anton BitelJim Mickle’s apocalyptic vampire coming-of-ager takes us on a defamiliarising trip though a polarised America.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
February 9, 2018 | Anton BitelA postmodern ghost movie and meta found footage horror, where the ghosts are also the filmmakers.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Grave Encounters (2011)
January 26, 2018 | Anton BitelThe Vicious Brothers’ debut gets every beat of its found-footage premise right.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Initiation (1984)
January 12, 2018 | Anton BitelLarry Stewart’s self-consciously derivative, overtly psychological slasher balances the silly with the smart.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Christmas Evil (1980)
December 15, 2017 | Anton BitelLewis Jackson’s Yuletide UFO puts the manic in Manichaeism.Read More