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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12h

With a "tangible depth and texture", Nacho Cerdà's knowingly derivative haunted house movie THE ABANDONED (Los Abandonados, 2006) "approaches something like the Platonic ideal of its genre". On BloodStream TV from today. projectedfigures.com/2016/07/21/a...

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The Abandoned (Los Abandonados) (2006) - Projected Figures

Nacho Cerdà's knowingly derivative haunted house movie THE ABANDONED approaches something like its genre's Platonic ideal

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Plumeria @plumeriapics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗪 🚨 The Great Unwatched: 200 Must-See Movies You May Have Missed (paperback, out Nov 2) is a must-have collection of must-see movie recommendations, chosen by a diverse group of critics. Limited gold edition for pre-orders only! plumeriapics.co.uk/shop

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

Delighted to have contributed to the bookazine THE 200 GREATEST HORROR FILMS, in shops October and open to pre-orders now shop.kelsey.co.uk/products/the...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

My 'other life' is taking over this week, and I am working in the Bod. All I can say is, it's much better here before the students return from their break.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

TIL that a citizen of Utah is a Utahn

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

Films don’t make meaning. Films prompt, films pander, films provoke. Viewers make meaning.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

one of the great things about “just starting” when you’re feeling blocked is that whatever you write first, though essentially unplanned, can trigger the direction, even the shape, of what is to come in unexpected ways. It’s like automatic writing - with a delete option.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

"resurrects heavy-metal pandemonium in provincial Nü Zealand": Jason Lei Howden’s belated horror comedy sequel DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON (2025) is in cinemas across the US and Canada from today via @ravenbannerent.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/31/d...

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DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON (2025) - Projected Figures

Jason Lei Howden's belated horror comedy sequel DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON resurrects heavy-metal pandemonium in provincial Nü Zealand

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026

"an uncompromisingly hardcore – and often banned – study in sexual obsession": Nagisa Oshima's allegory of "Japan’s phallocentric, self-destructive imperialism" IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ai no corrida, 1976) screens 8.45pm today at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2017/09/23/t...

Sada Abe (Eiko Matsuda) leaves her lover breathless, strangling him with a red sash.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026

"locates several horrors – and maybe a vampire – in a remote Spanish convent": Oscar Martín’s period gothic nunsploitationer UPIRO (2026) screens 10pm tonight (+ Q&A) at Beyond Fest. Love this unpredictable feminist dream/nightmare. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/19/u...

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Upiro (2026) - Projected Figures

Óscar Martín’s period gothic nunsploitationer UPIRO locates several horrors - and maybe a vampire - in a remote Spanish convent

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026

"captures its arrested characters in an uncanny alternative office space where the shadow self runs free": effectively creepy feature debut BACKROOMS (2026). 8.30pm tonight, BFI Southbank, with extended intro from Kane Parsons and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/05/29/b...

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Backrooms (2026) - Projected Figures

Kane Parsons' debut feature BACKROOMS captures its arrested characters in an uncanny alternative office space where the shadow self runs free

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026

Parallel scenes from a marriage: in Caleb Phillips’ seismic SF horror IMPOSTERS, “an unhappy couple searches for a missing baby and lost magic on shifting ground“. Screens 7pm tonight (with Q&A) at Beyond Fest. Highly recommended. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/impo...

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Imposters: Grounded and twisty sci-fi horror | FrightFest 2026

Parallel scenes from a marriage: in Caleb Phillips’ seismic sci-fi horror, an unhappy couple searches for a missing baby and lost magic on shifting ground.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026

"a multi-generic mindfuck of a mystery about an alienated Lynchian woman in trouble": Hirohisa Sasaki’s surreal, superior sequel GORE FROM OUTER SPACE (2001) screens 8.45pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/g...

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Gore From Outer Space (Chi wo sû uchû) (2001) - Projected Figures

Hirohisa Sasaki’s paradoxical sequel GORE FROM OUTER SPACE is the multi-generic mindfucking mystery of an alienated Lynchian woman in trouble

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026

"turns an ordinary-seeming family and its community inside out during a murder investigation": Hirohisa Sasaki’s madcap, pinky, rapey ufo CRAZY LIPS (Hakkyousuru kuchibiru, 2000) screens 6.30pm today at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/28/c...

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Crazy Lips (Hakkyousuru kuchibiru) (2000) - Projected Figures

Hirohisa Sasaki’s pinky, rapey ufo CRAZY LIPS turns an ordinary-seeming family and its community inside out during a murder investigation

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026

(Un)die hard: Yeon Sang-ho’s not-quite-sequel COLONY (GUNCHE, 2026) "pits hive-mind zombies against a highly independent heroine in need of a working team". On 4K UHD/Blu/DVD/digital from today via @studiocanal.com. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/colo...

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Colony (Gunche) review at Fantasia 2026: Thrilling but a little repetitive

Train To Busan's Yeon Sang-ho’s not-quite-sequel pits hive-mind zombies against a highly independent heroine in need of a working team.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 27/09/2026

There can perhaps be nothing more human than trying to relive a good experience, and failing.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 27/09/2026

"exposes starving frontiersmen to an Indigenous spirit and to (their own) nature": Casey Walker’s early nineteenth-century proto-horror ITHAQUA (2026) screens 7pm today with Q&A at Beyond Fest. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/itha...

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Ithaqua review: Bloody, grotesque, creepy and ambiguous | FrightFest 2026

Casey Walker’s early nineteenth-century proto-horror exposes starving frontiersmen to an Indigenous spirit and to (their own) nature.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 27/09/2026

Return of the mother: Justin Hardy’s final film, the Wicker Man sort-of sequel WRATH OF THE GODS (2026), "brings a gendered reckoning to Robin Hardy as both filmmaker and father". Screens 5.30pm today with Q&A at Dead Northern - Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/28/w...

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Wrath of the Gods (2026) - Projected Figures

Return of the mother: Justin Hardy’s final film WRATH OF THE GODS brings a gendered reckoning to Robin Hardy as both filmmaker and father

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 27/09/2026

Mesmerising: Michael Laughlin’s determinedly odd, genuinely eccentric feature debut STRANGE BEHAVIOUR (aka DEAD KIDS, 1981) "is a sort-of slasher, sort-of smalltown sci-fi from the early Eighties." Screens 3.40pm today at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2017/10/07/s...

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Strange Behavior (aka Dead Kids) (1981) - Projected Figures

Michael Laughlin's Strange Behavior, aka Dead Kids, is a genuinely eccentric sort-of slasher, sort-of smalltown sci-fi from the early Eighties.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/09/2026

"smalltown cops and hunters chasing, and chased by, aggressive intruders along the Korean border": Na Hong-jin’s barrelling blockbuster HOPE (2026) is in UK cinemas now. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/26/h...

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Hope (2026) - Projected Figures

Na Hong-jin’s barrelling blockbuster HOPE has smalltown cops and hunters chasing, and chased by, aggressive intruders along the Korean border

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/09/2026

"pits sister burglars against a serial artist in residence": Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer’s genre-crossing comedy of errors DRAG (2026) screens 7pm today at Beyond Fest. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/28/d...

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Drag (2026) - Projected Figures

Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer’s genre-crossing comedy of errors DRAG pits sister burglars against a serial artist in residence

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/09/2026

"places an amnesiac man in an infernal loop against a terrifying creature": Stewart Sparke’s gamified SF/horror DEAD RESET (2026) screens 9pm with Q&A tonight at Dead Northern - Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/dead...

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Dead Reset Review: Time-loop creature feature | FrightFest 2026

Stewart Sparke’s gamified SF/horror places an amnesiac man in an infernal loop against a terrifying creature.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/09/2026

Heady healing: NOXTURNE (2026) "offers a psychological portrait of an ageing artist forced by an accident into stasis, and unhappy in her reflection". 4.40pm today at Charlotte Film Fest with director @kristinaklebe.bsky.social & co-star Byron Clohessy attending projectedfigures.com/2026/05/15/n...

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Noxturne (2026) - Projected Figures

Kristina Klebe’s debut feature NOXTURNE offers a psychological portrait of an artist forced into stasis and unhappy in her reflection

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/09/2026

Amour f(o)u: in Zoe Berriatúa’s dark post-romantic multi-cultural comedy FREE BUFFET (Buffet libre, 2026), "a middle-aged couple cannibalises fellow marketeers for Chinese cuisine". UK première 12.15pm today at Dead Northern - Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/04/14/f...

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Free Buffet (Buffet Libre) (2026) - Projected Figures

Amour f(o)u: in Zoe Berriatúa’s dark post-romantic comedy FREE BUFFET, a couple cannibalises fellow marketeers for Chinese cuisine

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 25/09/2026

"serves daftly dark comedy, psychological deviance, grotesque gore, surreal sadism, adolescent emergence – and aces it all, game, set and match.": Nikias Chryssos’ surreal, Suspiria-like sports horror BLOODY TENNIS (2026) is on @shudder.com from today. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/24/b...

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Bloody Tennis (2026) - Projected Figures

Nikias Chryssos’ surreal, Suspiria-like sports horror BLOODY TENNIS shows the unspeakable price of victory in a cutthroat, campy competition

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 25/09/2026

Off map: Charlie Robb and Douglas Tawn’s found-footage psychodrama/folk horror LONER (2025) "both exposes and hides one man lost in the woods, and in (his own) nature". Screens 7.30pm today at Dead Northern - Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/06/20/l...

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Loner (2025) - Projected Figures

Charlie Robb and Douglas Tawn’s found-ftg psychodrama/folk horror LONER exposes and hides one man lost in the woods, and in (his own) nature

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 25/09/2026

Cum and see: Alex Montilla's absurdist porn-slash-slasher meta mashup FRIDAY THE 69th (2026) screens 4.45pm today at Dead Northern, UK. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2026/06/19/f...

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Friday the 69th - DMovies

Metacinematic debut feature shows the dirty and the delicious results of a porn crew making their first slasher - from Raindance

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

"referees the unspeakable price of victory in a cutthroat, campy competition": Nikias Chryssos’ surreal, Suspiria-like sports horror BLOODY TENNIS (2026) is on @shudder.com from tomorrow. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/24/b...

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Bloody Tennis (2026) - Projected Figures

Nikias Chryssos’ surreal, Suspiria-like sports horror BLOODY TENNIS shows the unspeakable price of victory in a cutthroat, campy competition

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

In Elaine Frost’s queer horror short BY YOURSELF (2026), starring Zelda Adams of @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social, "a solo camper trying to reconnect to herself is confronted by the empty nothingness within". World première at Fantastic Fest. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/24/b...

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By Yourself (2026) - Projected Figures

In Elaine Frost's queer horror short BY YOURSELF a solo camper trying to reconnect to herself is confronted by the empty nothingness within

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Jamie Graham @jamie-graham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is always a great listen

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

"a young man has a perverse cumming of age in his grandmother's woodland home": Agata Trzebuchowska’s wet dream of a fairytale SICK (2026) re-screens 5.45pm today at Fantastic Fest. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/18/s...

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Sick (2026) - Projected Figures

In Agata Trzebuchowska’s wet dream of a fairytale SICK, a young man has a perverse cumming of age in his grandmother's woodland home

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

Finland Empire: Markus Lehmusruusu’s droll, dystopian SQUIRREL (Orava, 2026) "lets future humanity both lose – and rediscover – itself in exiled animality." Re-screens 5.15pm today at Fantastic Fest. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/20/t...

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The Squirrel (Orava) (2026) - Projected Figures

Markus Lehmusruusu’s droll, dystopian drama THE SQUIRREL lets future humanity both lose - and rediscover - itself in exiled animality

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

"shows patriarchy, in all its toxic perversion, as an incurable plague": Quarxx’s apocalyptic period folk horror THE ONES WHO GRIEVE ( Les âmes en peine, 2026) re-screens 5pm today at Fantastic Fest. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/18/t...

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The Ones Who Grieve (Les âmes en peine) (2026) - Projected Figures

Quarxx's apocalyptic period folk horror THE ONES WHO GRIEVE shows patriarchy, in all its toxic perversion, as an incurable plague

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

It delivers: in Russell Goldman’s debut feature SENDER (2026), "a reeling, recovering alcoholic receives packages from a mysterious source." Screens 7pm today at Beyond Fest, with Q&A. An excellent, unusual film. projectedfigures.com/2026/06/18/s...

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Sender (2026) - Projected Figures

It delivers: in Russell Goldman's debut feature SENDER, a reeling, recovering alcoholic receives packages from a mysterious source

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026

"paganism and the occult ride pillion with a gang of delinquent bikers, bringing two different exploitation motifs into unusual proximity": Don Sharp's PSYCHOMANIA (1972) is on BloodStream TV from today. projectedfigures.com/2017/03/20/p...

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Psychomania (1972) - Projected Figures

Don Sharp's Psychomania is a hybrid exploitation film in which paganism and the occult ride pillion with a gang of delinquent bikers.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23/09/2026

AI after it has wiped out the last of the humans...

Image from the end of FINDING NEMO: having successfully made their escape from the dentist's display aquarium, in their respective plastic bags filled with water the fish float on the sea's surface, free and yet not really free at all. The caption, quoting the film's final line, reads: "Now what?"

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23/09/2026

Ah well, I've always preferred independent cinema anyway...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23/09/2026

"dreamy retro-styled sci-fi noir giallo melodrama UFO psychoanalyses the Electra complex in blue (and pink)": Nicolas Winding Refn’s HER PRIVATE HELL (2026) is in UK cinemas from Friday via MUBI UK & Ireland. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/her-...

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Her Private Hell Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s dreamy sci-fi noir is heaven to some, hell to others

Nicolas Winding Refn’s dreamy retro-styled sci-fi noir giallo melodrama UFO psychoanalyses the Electra complex in blue (and pink).

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23/09/2026

As usual, after @frightfest.bsky.social, @virginieselavy.bsky.social, @annodracula.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast rounding up the festival for @resonancefm.bsky.social. That is now available to hear online. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl...

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Clear Spot - 11 September 2026 (Frightfest 2026)

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David Hughes 🇵🇸 @davidhughesbluey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Timecrimes is one of the 200!

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