Friday Frights
Shudder UK film review: The Children (1980)
June 9, 2017 | Anton BitelMax Kalmanowicz’s low-budget chiller sets a community’s kids upon America’s nuclear family.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Tripper
May 26, 2017 | Anton BitelDavid Arquette’s debut is a so-so slasher elevated by its unexpected (but eventually overworn) political mask.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
May 12, 2017 | Anton BitelThough innovative in form, Charles B. Pierce’s cryptozoological pseudo-documentary on smalltown America also falls a little flat.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Slugs
April 28, 2017 | Anton BitelCreature feature in which humans prove just as carnal and odd as the mutant slugs killing them.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Snapshot
March 31, 2017 | Anton BitelSimon Wincer’s Ozploitationer is a feminist melodrama ever tinged with the faint odour of burning flesh.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Body Melt (1993)
March 17, 2017 | Anton BitelPhilip Brophy’s outrageous, uproarious body horror comedy returns Aussie suburbia to the primal ooze.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Strange Behavior (1981)
March 10, 2017 | Anton BitelA genuinely eccentric sort-of slasher, sort-of smalltown sci-fi from the early 80s.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Lost Things (2004)
February 17, 2017 | Anton BitelCarnival Of Souls reconfigured as an Ozploitation enigma of adolescence.Read More
VOD film review: The Burning (1981)
February 3, 2017 | Anton BitelThis derivative slasher launched many a filmmaking career.Read More
VOD film review: Ginger Snaps (2000)
January 20, 2017 | Anton BitelThis small-town coming-of-ager regenders the werewolf myth as a hilariously icky exploration of the monstrous feminine.Read More