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Anton Bitel

@antbit.wsocial.eu
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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.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
A milquetoast struggles "to get what he really wants and be reborn untethered from his mother’s monstrous influence": Peter Jackson’s hilarious, hypergory Oedipal apocalypse BRAINDEAD (1992) invents the romzomcom. Screens 11.15pm tonight at SITGES. projectedfigures.com/2025/12/07/f...
A male zombie standing behind a woman has plunged his hand through the back of her head so that it emerges from her mouth
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 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 the Nickel Cinema, London. 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.wsocial.eu · 21/09/2026
"This is man, woman and chainsaw, sexed-up and stylised, exposing a Japanese housewife’s indoor appetites and anxieties": Banmei Takahashi's home invasion slasher DOOR (1988) screens 6.30pm tonight at the Nickel Cinema, London. projectedfigures.com/2024/12/16/s...
Housewife Yasuko Honda (director Banmei Takahashi’s wife Keiko Takahashi) lies on top of door-to-door salesman Yamakawa (Daijiro Tsusumi) in a bloody embrace on the floor.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
"locates several horrors – and maybe a vampire – in a remote Spanish convent": Oscar Martín’s period gothic nunsploitationer UPIRO (2026) had its world première at Fantastic Fest. Love this unpredictable feminist dream/nightmare. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/19/u...
Novice Ana (Pauline Brisy) looks defiant while taking the communion wafer.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 18/09/2026
Nostalgia menu: the amiably postmodern DEAD MEDIA (2025) "sees a stalled Zoomer accidentally entering the world of a cursed horror DVD". US roadshow begins 10pm tonight at the Sidewalk Cinema, Birmingham, AL, with Q&A from writer/director Joseph Scrimshaw. projectedfigures.com/2026/04/12/d...
Uncle Heppy (Sam Landman) holds up a DVD copy of Romero-ripoff NIGHT OF THE LURCHERSDEAD MEDIA Theatrical Roadshow
 with writer/director Joseph Scrimshaw in attendance!


Sept. 18 - Birmingham, AL - Sidewalk Cinema @ 10:00PM
Sept. 20 - Atlanta, GA - Tara Theatre @ 7:00PM

Sept. 22 - Austin, TX - Violet Crown Cinema @ 7:00PM

Sept. 23 - Dallas, TX - Violet Crown Cinema @ 7:00PM

Sept. 24 - Houston, TX - River Oaks Houston @ 7:45PM

Sept. 27 - New York City, NY - Low Cinema @ 2:00PM

Sept. 27 - New York City, NY - Cinema Village @ 8:00PM

Sept. 29 - Portland, OR - Living Room Theaters @ 7:00PM

Sept. 30 - San Francisco, CA - ATA (Artists' Television Access) @ 7:00PM

Oct. 2 - Palm Springs, CA - Festival Theaters @ 7:30PM

Oct. 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Whammy Analog @ 4:00PM
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
"a chilling tragedy of families, broken and badly reconstituted": Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz's cult fairytale horror THE LODGE (2019) is on BloodStream TV from today. projectedfigures.com/2020/12/06/s...
Medium close-up of a bloody-nosed Grace (Riley Keough) with a halo-like light behind her
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 11/09/2026
"a work of winning charm and surreal background detail, where everyone desires, but not everyone knows what – or who – they want": Bill Forsyth's coming-of-ager GREGORY'S GIRL (1980) is on Film Movement+ from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/08/11/s...
Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) with new girl Dorothy (Dee Hepburn) on the football field
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 03/09/2026
"contemplates spectatorship, alterity and mystery in a trick of the light": Anders Elsrud Hultgreen’s mesmerising short film YIELD TO ITS GAZE (2026) projectedfigures.com/2026/09/03/y...
A wide shot of a lake at dusk, with a 'light orb' and its reflection on the distant horizon, and a subtitle for the voiceover that reads, "Breathe in slowly."
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 18/08/2026
"sly, wry existential allegory of life’s disposable relationships": Sam Voutas' time-loop tragicomedy YESTERDAY ISLAND (2025) re-screens 11.15am today (19 Aug) at Melbourne International Film Festival. Capsule for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/events/sci-f...
wide shot: in yellow jacket and beanie, Amos (Ivan Aristeguita) stands in front of the shabby arctic shack that might just become his forever home.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 15/08/2026
"sly, wry existential allegory of life’s disposable relationships": Sam Voutas' time-loop tragicomedy YESTERDAY ISLAND (2025) screens 6pm today at Melbourne International Film Festival. Capsule for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/events/sci-f...
wide shot: in yellow jacket and beanie, Amos (Ivan Aristeguita) stands in front of the shabby arctic shack that might just become his forever home.
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Anton Bitel @antbit.wsocial.eu · 09/08/2026
she-cat sleeps kangaroo-style
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