FrightFest 2020
For the Sake of Vicious review: A hilarious and tense thriller
April 19, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Gabriel Carrer and Reese Eveneshen’s low-rent action thriller is as darkly hilarious as it is terrifyingly tense.Read More
Playhouse review: Creepy gothic horror
April 16, 2021 | Anton Bitel
The Watts brothers’ creepy and confounding feature debut is an atmospheric gothic horror.Read More
VOD film review: Honeydew
March 29, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Devereux Milburn’s funny, horrifying debut is a queasily nightmarish fable of America’s food chain.Read More
Arrow UK film review: The Stylist
March 1, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Jill 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 Bitel
Karl Holt’s feature debut finds a hilariously playful side to a man-child’s darker impulses. Read More
VOD film review: Hosts (2020)
January 18, 2021 | Anton Bitel
This cruel Christmas cracker stuffed with sci-fi and apocalyptic ultraviolence will haunt you long after its end credits.Read More
VOD film review: Concrete Plans
November 23, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Will Jewell’s tense worksite tale is a dog-eat-dog state-of-the-nation thriller.Read More
VOD film review: Blind (2019)
November 16, 2020 | Anton Bitel
This barely credible thriller offers endless stalk and slash, but little dash.
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VOD film review: Blood Harvest (The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw)
November 16, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Thomas Robert Lee’s premodern fable shows an America destructively divided by faith and gender.Read More
FrightFest Halloween film review: The Banishing, The Reckoning, Slaxx
October 25, 2020 | Anton Bitel
The Banishing, The Reckoning, Slaxx are streaming as part of the FrightFest Halloween 2020 event. Find out more about how it all works here – or see our picks from the festival line-up here.
A haunted house. A woman accused … Read More
