Contributions from Anton Bitel | Little White Lies

Contributor Anton Bitel

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Festivals

Horror highlights from Glasgow FrightFest 2018

by Anton Bitel

Some of the year’s best and most challenging genre titles were served up over a truly chilling weekend.
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Home Ents

Discover Henri-George Clouzot’s psychedelic swansong

by Anton Bitel

The French director’s 1968 La Prisonnière aka Woman in Chains is both compelling and perverse.
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Home Ents

The generation-spanning human drama of Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool trilogy

by Anton Bitel

Made over 17 years, this unlikely series is among the indie writer/director’s finest achievements.
Two individuals, one wearing a mask, embracing in a garden.
Home Ents

Discover the grisly drama of this surgery-based Southern gothic

by Anton Bitel

John Grissmer’s Scalpel, about a psychopathic plastic surgeon, has been rescued from VHS obscurity.
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Home Ents

Discover the proto-giallo pleasures of Dario Argento’s debut feature

by Anton Bitel

A 4K restoration of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is being released.
Two women lying on a bed, one asleep, the other awake and looking off-camera. Soft, intimate lighting and bedding create a pensive, moody scene.
Home Ents

Discover the Psycho-esque thrills of this ’70s serial killer romance

by Anton Bitel

Peter Collinson’s Straight on Till Morning offers a grisly vision of Britain in the 1970s.
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Home Ents

The low, lurid pleasures of Dario Argento’s The Cat O’ Nine Tails

by Anton Bitel

The Italian director’s 1971 giallo shows a visionary film artist still finding his feet.
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Review

The Unseen

by Anton Bitel

There’s shades of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now in this twisty mystery thriller from writer/​director Gary Sinyor.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

The horror of coming-of-age in Brian De Palma’s Carrie

by Anton Bitel

Adolescence is key to everything in this seminal Stephen King adaptation from 1974.
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Home Ents

The surreal, singular genius of Dario Argento’s Suspiria

by Anton Bitel

Forty years on, the director’s nightmarish gialli has lost none of its potency.