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Anton Bitel

@antbit.projectedfigures.com
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Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope. The #Horror, the #Horror Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival. London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society. ProjectedFigures.com

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h
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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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 14h
Is he dead yet?
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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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The 200 Greatest Horror Films
The 200 Greatest Horror Films | Kelsey Media Shop
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
I, mean
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
no jerking without king
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
they may have a meaning in mind, but viewers have a habit of finding ther own meanings
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
I often ignore it until my deadline no longer lets me.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
No lover without over
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 29/09/2026
When they watch them
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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
no sex without ex
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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 · 29/09/2026
Is he dead yet?
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 28/09/2026
it’s amazing - and really demands the viewer’s close attention
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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
and to err is human
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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
goddammit
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 27/09/2026
10 German Horror Films projectedfigures.com/2026/09/27/1...
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10 German Horror Films - Projected Figures
10 German Horror Films: Cabinet of Dr Caligari, M, Vampyr, Jonathan, The Fan, Nekromantik, Antibodies, We Are The Night, Der Samurai, Sleep
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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 · 27/09/2026
Is he dead yet?
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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
this really is peak everything - an extraordinary, haunting film projectedfigures.com/2016/04/14/c...
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Carnival of Souls (1962) - Projected Figures
Herk Harvey's uncannily off-kilter mystery CARNIVAL OF SOULS comes with an intangible eerieness that has often been imitated but rarely matched
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26/09/2026
well fuck
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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 · 26/09/2026
Is he dead yet?
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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
Electra complex in blue (and pink): Nicolas Winding Refn's "dreamy retro-styled sci-fi noir giallo melodrama ufo" HER PRIVATE HELL (2026) is in UK cinemas today. 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 · 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 · 25/09/2026
Is he dead yet?
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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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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026
absolutely!
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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 24/09/2026
one day you will say "yes", and we will both stare in dazed, incredulous relief
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