Contributor Anton Bitel

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Review

The Black Phone

by Anton Bitel

Scott Derrickson returns to his horror roots with this story of a pre-teen who faces off against a sinister serial killer, with help from his previous victims.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

The perverse delights of Jonathan Demme’s cult classic Crazy Mama

by Anton Bitel

An intergenerational matriarchy embarks on a crime spree in the late director’s 1975 action-comedy.
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Home Ents

Is this Gaspar Noé’s most religious film?

by Anton Bitel

The director’s short experimental feature, Lux Æterna, plays like a panic attack before reaching a rapturous crescendo.
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Home Ents

Discover the cult ’80s slasher that pre-empted Freddy Krueger

by Anton Bitel

The likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream owe something to Robert Deubel’s co-ed carve up Girls Nite Out.
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Home Ents

Something sinister lives among the sheep in this ’70s wild west monster movie

by Anton Bitel

Fredric Hobbs' surreal 1973 film sees a giant mutant sheep terrorise the residents of a sleepy town in rural Nevada.
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Review

You Are Not My Mother

by Anton Bitel

A family find themselves troubled by malevolent familial forces in director Kate Dolan’s tense drama-horror.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

The frenetic thrills of Abel Ferrara’s abstract surveillance thriller

by Anton Bitel

Ethan Hawke stars in this poetic and strange thriller about a military operative chasing multiple threads in Rome.
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Review

Homebound

by Anton Bitel

A couple pay a visit to an ex-partner and her family in Sebastian Godwin’s effective domestic horror.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

Discover the dreamy delights of this Japanese detective noir

by Anton Bitel

Kaizo Hayashi’s ’80s crime drama To Sleep So as to Dream is a rich homage to Japan’s cinematic heritage.
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Festivals

Monstrous – first-look review

by Anton Bitel

Christina Ricci stars as a mother on the edge in director Chris Sivertson’s lakeside creature feature.

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