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Anton Bitel

AntBit@zirk.us

<p>The <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Horror</span></a>.<br />Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.<br />Bylines all over the yard (Sight and Sound, Little White Lies, SciFiNow, booklet essays, etc.).<br />Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.<br />London Film Critics&#39; Circle, Online Film Critics Society.<br />Rejecter of lanyards. Teacher of undergrads.</p><p>Australian sentenced to life in England.<br />Oxford, UK</p>

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    &amp;quot;sends four young partygoers into an unhinged underworld of paranoid dealers, vicious fathers and unloved sons&amp;quot;: Nick Kozakis’ hyperviolent tragic thriller KICK ON (2026) closes Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 6.30pm tonight. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/09/20/kick-on-2026/

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    &amp;quot;Darkly funny horror about a town that cannot keep its secrets buried&amp;quot;: Gary Sherman&amp;#39;s DEAD &amp;amp; BURIED (1981) screens 8.35pm tonight at its natural home, Dead And SudBuried. https://projectedfigures.com/2020/02/03/dead-buried-1981/

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    Haute-couture whodunnit: in Mario Bava&amp;#39;s ur-giallo BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) the &amp;quot;focus always remains on the dreamy mood and elegant design that create so many fashion victims&amp;quot;. Screens 9pm tonight at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. https://projectedfigures.com/2015/03/06/glasgow-frightfest-2015-post-mortem-on-new-horror/#BloodAndBlackLace

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    &amp;quot;figures unwanted pregnancy as alien invasion&amp;quot;: Sean Wallace &amp;amp; Jordan Mark Windsor (aka THUNDERLIPS)&amp;#39;s hilariously banalised NZ sci-fi comedy MUM, I&amp;#39;M ALIEN PREGNANT (2026) screens 10.45pm at Dead And SudBuried and 11.55pm at Celluloid Screams https://projectedfigures.com/2026/01/24/mum-im-alien-pregnant-2026/

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    Song of innocence and experience: POETRY (2010), Lee Chang-dong&amp;#39;s unforgettable film about forgetting, on Film Movement+ from today. https://projectedfigures.com/2015/09/09/poetry-2010-2/

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    &amp;quot;uses two horror subgenres to modulate a cowgirl’s quest for her right(eous) place in a male world&amp;quot;: Emma Benestan’s bullish feature ANIMALE (2024) is on Film Movement+ from today. https://projectedfigures.com/2024/09/24/animale-2024/

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    Fan(tasy)boy: Steve Pink’s SF-inflected twisty tragedy TERRESTRIAL (2026) &amp;quot;sees old friends reunited with an unbelievably successful genre novelist&amp;quot;. In US theatres from today via Aero Films. Recommended. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/08/28/terrestrial-2026/

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    (c)ad-man: CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN (2024), Justin (RIP) and Dominic Hardy’s documentary (co-directed with Chris Nunn) on their filmmaking father, “sets the art against the artist”. In UK cinemas from today via Unannounced Films/Exposure. https://projectedfigures.com/2024/08/23/children-of-the-wicker-man-2024/

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    That sinking feeling: Matt Stuertz’s metacinematic psychodrama HUMAN (2025) is “a long dark night of the soul that will make you 😂, 🤮 and 😮”. Also, rocks ARE cool. In Select US theatres and on VOD/digital from today via Dark Sky Films. https://projectedfigures.com/2025/08/22/human-2025/

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    Millennial man, fractured: Larry Fessenden&amp;#39;s Frankenstein-riffing DEPRAVED (2019) screens 11am today at Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival, introduced by the man himself. https://projectedfigures.com/2019/03/21/depraved-2019/

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    &amp;quot;updated, psychologised take on Stoker finds a predatory subtext lurking in the shadows of myth&amp;quot;: Chris Schwab&amp;#39;s DRACULA: THE NIGHT AROUND US (2026) screens 12.50pm today at Dead And SudBuried. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/dracula-the-night-around-us-review-plenty-to-sink-your-teeth-into-frightfest-2026/

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    &amp;quot;As the twist-heavy narrative bends us this way and that, it also confronts us with our own errant desires&amp;quot;: Richard Franklin&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;sequal&amp;#39; PSYCHO II (1983) screens 2.30pm today at Dead And SudBuried. https://projectedfigures.com/2018/02/16/psycho-ii-1983/

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    Look ma, no hands: Glenn McQuaid’s wickedly camp gothic melodrama THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR (2025) &amp;quot;pits a gay, mutilated pianist against his formidable, heir-fixated mother&amp;quot;. Screens 4.45pm today at Celluloid Screams with Q&amp;amp;A. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/03/06/the-restoration-at-grayson-manor-2025/

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    &amp;quot;turns a couple’s grief and trauma into a demonic rite of passage&amp;quot;: Annabella Rich’s ‘cult’ feature debut THE DEATH OF US (2026) screens 5.45pm today at Dead And SudBuried. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/the-death-of-us-2026/

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    &amp;quot;Maybe a bit too good. Too clean, yes, too precise. Too… formal. It should be more trashy&amp;quot;: Dario Argento&amp;#39;s artful hall of mirrors DEEP RED (1975) may be giallo, but comes painted in many colours. Screens 7pm tonight at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975/

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    Out of left field: Jethro Waters’ GUNFIGHTER PARADISE (2025) &amp;quot;sets a grieving man’s homecoming amid a singularly American mix of guns and God.&amp;quot; Screens 7pm today (with Q&amp;amp;A) at UNC Asheville. A true original, highly recommended. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/03/06/gunfighter-paradise-2025/

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    &amp;quot;brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare&amp;quot;: Toby Poser &amp;amp; John Adams&amp;#39; enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD screens 8pm with Q&amp;amp;A at Celluloid Screams. Review for SciFiNow Magazine https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-glorious-dead-review/

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    Heady healing: Kristina Klebe&amp;#39;s NOXTURNE (2026) &amp;quot;offers a psychological portrait of an ageing artist forced by an accident into stasis, and unhappy in her reflection&amp;quot;. Screens 8pm tonight at LA Femme Film Festival. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/05/15/noxturne-2026/

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    Embryonic horror: Alain Robak&amp;#39;s BABY BLOOD (1990) unleashes the madness and monstrosity of maternity upon a world of awful men. Screens 9.45pm tonight at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. https://projectedfigures.com/2020/02/23/baby-blood-1990/

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    In Quentin Dupieux&amp;#39;s surreal, superdumb cinematic smorgasbord FULL PHIL (2026), &amp;quot;a father has his fill of trying to reconnect with his daughter in Paris.&amp;quot; Screens 11.15pm today at SITGES, doubled with Dupieux&amp;#39;s VERTIGINOUS. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/09/22/full-phil-2026/

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    S(t)imulating: the existentialist animation of Quentin Dupieux&amp;#39;s VERTIGINOUS (Le Vertige, 2026) &amp;quot;uses its own lo-fi artifice to make us question – and laugh at – reality itself.&amp;quot; Screens 11.15pm today at SITGES, doubled with Dupieux&amp;#39;s FULL PHIL. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/09/18/vertiginous-le-vertige-2026/

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    &amp;quot;tracks a paramedic’s descent as he witnesses Madrid’s moribund criminal underworld up close&amp;quot;: Hugo Ruíz’s one-night cross-city thriller DANTE (Dante de Noche, 2026) screens 11.15pm tonight at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/06/08/dante-2026/

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    RIP R.J. Mitte. Best known for Breaking Bad, but also outstanding in Cody Calahan&amp;#39;s THE OAK ROOM (2020) https://projectedfigures.com/2020/06/24/the-oak-room-2020/

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    Pussy posse: Bertrand Mandico’s super-stylised sci-fi fantasy oater UFO &amp;quot;colonises a planet with women only, and with deepest, darkest desire&amp;quot;. AFTER BLUE (2021) now available as part of Anti-Worlds’ Divergent View – The Feature Films of Bertrand Mandico Limited Edition 3-Blu-ray box set https://projectedfigures.com/2026/10/13/after-blue-paradis-sale-2026/

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    “a couple on a quixotic trip to a better world”: Kyle Greenberg and Anna Maguire’s semi-documentary apocalyptic travelogue GALICIA! has its world première (+ Q&amp;amp;A) 5.15pm today at the Downtown Festival https://projectedfigures.com/2026/10/13/galicia-2026/

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    Grave(s) encounters: both bizarre love triangle and asylum rant, Jerzy Skolimowski&amp;#39;s THE SHOUT (1978) &amp;quot;entirely dislocates our sense of where – and how – the dynamic of its erotic drama is unravelling.&amp;quot; Screens 8.15am today at SITGES. https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/28/blowup-1966-the-shout-1978-cowboys-1991/#TheShout

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    Robert Eggers&amp;#39; THE WITCH (2015) screens 6.30pm at SITGES. Here&amp;#39;s an interview with the writer/director from the time of the film&amp;#39;s release - and you can read my essay on it in the booklet of Second Sight&amp;#39;s beautiful Blu-ray package. https://projectedfigures.com/2016/07/18/witch/

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    “You should be careful, there are rules”: Michael Dougherty&amp;#39;s masterful Samhain omnibus TRICK &amp;#39;R TREAT (2007) takes several short cuts to its darkly delicious des(s)erts. Screens 6.30pm today (+ Q&amp;amp;A) at Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival. Recommended. https://projectedfigures.com/2019/05/29/trick-r-treat-2007/

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    &amp;quot;brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare&amp;quot;: John Adams and Toby Poser&amp;#39;s enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD screens 9.30pm tonight at Vancouver Horror Show - VHS. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-glorious-dead-review/

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    Noises off(world): in Sam Scott’s punkish comedy sci-fi horror musical TURN IT UP! (2026), “a struggling punk rock band tunes into a cosmic vibe”. Screens in an all-nighter from midnight at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. https://projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/turn-it-up/