Anton Bitel

All articles by Anton Bitel

Reviews

Immaculate: Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a giallo in a convent

Sydney Sweeney stars as a devout nun who ‘miraculously’ falls pregnant in a nasty nunsploitation with a sharp political message.

By Anton Bitel

Immaculate: Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a giallo in a convent
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Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness

By Anton Bitel

Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness
Festivals

The Dead Don’t Hurt: a ruminative state-of-the-nation western

By Anton Bitel

The Dead Don’t Hurt: a ruminative state-of-the-nation western
Reviews

Lisa Frankenstein: patchy zombie teen horror goes gravedigging in 1980s pop culture

By Anton Bitel

Lisa Frankenstein: patchy zombie teen horror goes gravedigging in 1980s pop culture
Reviews

Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror

By Anton Bitel

Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror
Festivals

Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny

By Anton Bitel

Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny
Reviews

Dream Scenario: Nic Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams in this surreal satire of online exposure

By Anton Bitel

Dream Scenario: Nic Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams in this surreal satire of online exposure
Festivals

Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire

By Anton Bitel

Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire
Features

LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival

By Anton Bitel

LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival
Festivals

Horror gets weird: 6 oddities from FrightFest 2023

By Anton Bitel

Horror gets weird: 6 oddities from FrightFest 2023
Reviews

T.I.M.: an unnerving AI thriller

By Anton Bitel

T.I.M.: an unnerving AI thriller
Reviews

Meg 2: The Trench: enjoyable, over-the-top sharky schlock

By Anton Bitel

Meg 2: The Trench: enjoyable, over-the-top sharky schlock
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Evil Dead Rise: an intensely gory instalment of the cult horror franchise

By Anton Bitel

Evil Dead Rise: an intensely gory instalment of the cult horror franchise
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The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era

By Anton Bitel

The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era
Festivals

Perpetrator: this feminist flick puts the gory in allegory

By Anton Bitel

Perpetrator: this feminist flick puts the gory in allegory
Reviews

Connect: a grisly offering from Takashi Miike that feels like the work of a modern-day media Frankenstein

By Anton Bitel

Connect: a grisly offering from Takashi Miike that feels like the work of a modern-day media Frankenstein
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10 great films set outside our solar system

By Anton Bitel

10 great films set outside our solar system
Reviews

The Menu: a tense tale of slow-cooked revenge

By Anton Bitel

The Menu: a tense tale of slow-cooked revenge
Lists

A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now

By Anton Bitel, Michael Blyth and others

A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now
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10 great zombie films

By Anton Bitel

10 great zombie films
What to watch at LFF

Primal scenes and personal perspectives: reflections on the Cult strand at LFF

By Anton Bitel

Primal scenes and personal perspectives: reflections on the Cult strand at LFF
Reviews

The Woman King: must history intrude on such heady mythmaking?

By Anton Bitel

The Woman King: must history intrude on such heady mythmaking?
Reviews

Smile: turn that frown inside-out

By Anton Bitel

Smile: turn that frown inside-out
Reviews

Bodies Bodies Bodies: a cutting dissection of Gen Z

By Anton Bitel

Bodies Bodies Bodies: a cutting dissection of Gen Z
Festivals

Preview: 10 traumatic treats from the Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 

By Anton Bitel

Preview: 10 traumatic treats from the Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 
Reviews

The Feast: chilling Welsh eco-horror

By Anton Bitel

The Feast: chilling Welsh eco-horror
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10 great robot films

By Anton Bitel

10 great robot films
Reviews

Dashcam: a livestream of consciousness that steers right into the QAnon canon

By Anton Bitel

Dashcam: a livestream of consciousness that steers right into the QAnon canon
Reviews

The Innocents gives the moral growth of children a supernatural twist

By Anton Bitel

The Innocents gives the moral growth of children a supernatural twist
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