Contributions from Anton Bitel | Little White Lies

Contributor Anton Bitel

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Festivals

Virtual Arthouse: Tsai Ming-liang’s The Deserted at the Taiwan Film Festival

by Anton Bitel

An 8K presentation of the director’s VR project provides a uniquely immersive experience.
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Home Ents

Discover Australia’s dread-filled answer to The Shining

by Anton Bitel

Tony Williams’ 1982 horror Next of Kin bears all the hallmarks of classic Victorian gothic.
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Home Ents

Discover the post-Scream pleasures of this ’90s meta-slasher

by Anton Bitel

Daniel Liatowitsch and David Todd Ocvirk’s Kolobos preempted the rise of reality TV.
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Review

Border

by Anton Bitel

A customs officer falls in love with a strange traveller in Ali Abbasi’s twisted modern romance.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

Discover the demonic pleasures of this ’80s possession horror

by Anton Bitel

Occult thrills abound in director Camilo Vila’s New Orleans-set exorcism fable The Unholy.
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A new Berberian Sound Studio adaptation brings aural chills to the stage

by Anton Bitel

Joel Horwood and Tom Scutt’s production brilliantly amplifies Peter Strickland’s 2012 film.
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Home Ents

Discover the wild ride of this Hammer-esque ’70s Euro-horror

by Anton Bitel

Eugenio Martín’s Horror Express is like a locomotive mash-up of The Thing and Murder on the Orient Express.
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Home Ents

Discover the first-person POV terror of Dario Argento’s Opera

by Anton Bitel

The horror maestro’s 1987 giallo is released in a special new 2K restoration this month.
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Home Ents

Two decades on Waterworld remains a mad, fascinating folly

by Anton Bitel

A new restoration reveals the insane ambition of this bloated Kevin Costner vehicle.
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Home Ents

Discover this shocking ’70s deep cut to middle-class America

by Anton Bitel

A babysitter is terrorised by an anonymous called in Fred Walton’s proto-slasher When a Stranger Calls.