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
Reviews
Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
The Dead Don’t Hurt: a ruminative state-of-the-nation western
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Lisa Frankenstein: patchy zombie teen horror goes gravedigging in 1980s pop culture
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Dream Scenario: Nic Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams in this surreal satire of online exposure
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire
By Anton Bitel
Features
LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Horror gets weird: 6 oddities from FrightFest 2023
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Meg 2: The Trench: enjoyable, over-the-top sharky schlock
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Evil Dead Rise: an intensely gory instalment of the cult horror franchise
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Perpetrator: this feminist flick puts the gory in allegory
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Connect: a grisly offering from Takashi Miike that feels like the work of a modern-day media Frankenstein
By Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great films set outside our solar system
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
The Menu: a tense tale of slow-cooked revenge
By Anton Bitel
Lists
A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now
By Anton Bitel, Michael Blyth and others
What to watch at LFF
Primal scenes and personal perspectives: reflections on the Cult strand at LFF
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
The Woman King: must history intrude on such heady mythmaking?
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Bodies Bodies Bodies: a cutting dissection of Gen Z
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Preview: 10 traumatic treats from the Arrow Video FrightFest 2022
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Dashcam: a livestream of consciousness that steers right into the QAnon canon
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
The Innocents gives the moral growth of children a supernatural twist
By Anton Bitel