Anton Bitel
@antbit.projectedfigures.com
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
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
Wings of desire: Angus Silver’s psychosexual drama INSECTASY (2026) "shows a young woman scratching the itch of her innermost errant entomological urges". Screens in the Night + Weird all-nighter from 1am tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2026/07/25/i...
Insectasy (2026) at Fantasia 2026 - Projected Figures
Angus Silver’s psychosexual drama INSECTASY shows a young woman scratching the itch of her innermost errant entomological desires
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October 9, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Wings of desire: Angus Silver’s psychosexual drama INSECTASY (2026) "shows a young woman scratching the itch of her innermost errant entomological urges". Screens in the Night + Weird all-nighter from 1am tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2026/07/25/i...
"figures unwanted pregnancy as alien invasion": Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor (aka THUNDERLIPS)'s hilariously banalised NZ sci-fi comedy MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT (2026) screens in the Night & Weird all-nighter at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social from 1am. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/24/m...
Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) - Projected Figures
THUNDERLIPS’ MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT is a hilariously banalised New Zealand sci-fi comedy that figures unwanted pregnancy as alien invasion
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October 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM
"figures unwanted pregnancy as alien invasion": Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor (aka THUNDERLIPS)'s hilariously banalised NZ sci-fi comedy MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT (2026) screens in the Night & Weird all-nighter at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social from 1am. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/24/m...
Return to the womb: John Valley’s Christmas psychodrama AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE (2026) "plays with the horrors of homecoming and the damage of cyclical trauma". Re-screens 11.15pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/03/15/a...
American Dollhouse (2026) - Projected Figures
John Valley's Christmas psychodrama AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE plays with the horrors of homecoming and the damage of cyclical trauma
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October 9, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Return to the womb: John Valley’s Christmas psychodrama AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE (2026) "plays with the horrors of homecoming and the damage of cyclical trauma". Re-screens 11.15pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/03/15/a...
"resurrects heavy-metal pandemonium in provincial Nü Zealand": Jason Lei Howden’s belated horror comedy sequel DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON (2025) screens 10.45pm tonight at Grimmfest. projectedfigures.com/2025/10/31/d...
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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October 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM
"resurrects heavy-metal pandemonium in provincial Nü Zealand": Jason Lei Howden’s belated horror comedy sequel DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON (2025) screens 10.45pm tonight at Grimmfest. projectedfigures.com/2025/10/31/d...
In Emily 'Lee' Lawson’s extraordinary yonic body horror short MAN EATING PUSSY (2026), "an unusual sex worker helps an ageing, ailing man reach completion". Screens 8.30pm tonight in a shorts strand at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2026/10/07/m...
Man Eating Pussy (2026) - Projected Figures
In Emily 'Lee' Lawson’s extraordinary body horror short MAN EATING PUSSY, an unusual sex worker helps an ageing, ailing man reach completion.
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October 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM
In Emily 'Lee' Lawson’s extraordinary yonic body horror short MAN EATING PUSSY (2026), "an unusual sex worker helps an ageing, ailing man reach completion". Screens 8.30pm tonight in a shorts strand at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2026/10/07/m...
"exposes starving frontiersmen to an Indigenous spirit and to (their own) nature": Casey Walker’s early nineteenth-century proto-horror ITHAQUA (2026) screens 8.20pm today at Grimmfest. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/itha...
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.
www.scifinow.co.uk
October 9, 2026 at 6:36 AM
"exposes starving frontiersmen to an Indigenous spirit and to (their own) nature": Casey Walker’s early nineteenth-century proto-horror ITHAQUA (2026) screens 8.20pm today at Grimmfest. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/itha...
"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 8pm today at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/g...
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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October 9, 2026 at 6:34 AM
"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 8pm today at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/g...
"timeless rites (of passage) beneath an off-road antiques store": Tyler Savage’s genre- and generation-leaping escapade ODDITIES (2026) screens 5.50pm today at Grimmfest. projectedfigures.com/2026/04/14/o...
Oddities (2026) - Projected Figures
Tyler Savage's genre- and generation-leaping escapade ODDITIES finds timeless rites (of passage) beneath an off-road antiques store
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October 9, 2026 at 6:31 AM
"timeless rites (of passage) beneath an off-road antiques store": Tyler Savage’s genre- and generation-leaping escapade ODDITIES (2026) screens 5.50pm today at Grimmfest. projectedfigures.com/2026/04/14/o...
Love hurts: "Christian values are the danger" in Adrian Chiarella’s queer horror LEVITICUS (2026). Re-screens 3.30pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/reviews/levi...
Leviticus review – a tender queer horror debut
A shape-shifting killer stalks two closeted teenagers in Adrian Chiarella’s gripping debut, though the real terror lies in the bigotry of the small town…
lwlies.com
October 9, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Love hurts: "Christian values are the danger" in Adrian Chiarella’s queer horror LEVITICUS (2026). Re-screens 3.30pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/reviews/levi...
Gordon's alive!: Mike Hodges' FLASH GORDON is "a mid-air skirmish of corny old-fashioned retrofuturism and knowing postmodernism, even as its veneer of homespun innocence keeps being subverted by the corrupting powers of kink." Now on @studiocanal.com Presents. projectedfigures.com/2021/04/25/f...
Flash Gordon (1980) - Projected Figures
Mike Hodges' FLASH GORDON turns an old-school comic-book hero into a colourfully postmodern, retrofuturist 'saviour of the universe'
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October 9, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Gordon's alive!: Mike Hodges' FLASH GORDON is "a mid-air skirmish of corny old-fashioned retrofuturism and knowing postmodernism, even as its veneer of homespun innocence keeps being subverted by the corrupting powers of kink." Now on @studiocanal.com Presents. projectedfigures.com/2021/04/25/f...
"imagines a violent viral uprising of the very young against their adult ‘betters’": the new 4K restoration of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s confronting ‘creepy kid’ horror WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) screens 11am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Superb! projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/c...
Who Can Kill A Child? (1976) - Projected Figures
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's confronting 'creepy kid' horror WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? imagines a violent viral uprising of the very young against their adult 'betters'
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October 9, 2026 at 6:21 AM
"imagines a violent viral uprising of the very young against their adult ‘betters’": the new 4K restoration of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s confronting ‘creepy kid’ horror WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) screens 11am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Superb! projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/c...
Trickle-down terror: @breagrant.bsky.social, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust’s workplace anthology GRIND (2026) "shows the horror (and comedy) of today’s exploitative gig economy". Screens 10.30am today at Grimmfest projectedfigures.com/2026/06/20/g...
Grind (2026) - Projected Figures
Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust’s workplace anthology GRIND shows the horror (and comedy) of today's exploitative gig economy
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October 9, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Trickle-down terror: @breagrant.bsky.social, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust’s workplace anthology GRIND (2026) "shows the horror (and comedy) of today’s exploitative gig economy". Screens 10.30am today at Grimmfest projectedfigures.com/2026/06/20/g...
"a filmmaker looking for her franchise reboot and its star finds her own sweet spot": Jane Schoenbrun’s reflexive eroto-comic horror TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (2026) 8.30am/8.20pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/teen...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review: A funny, freaky, elegantly stylised horror
In Jane Schoenbrun’s reflexive eroto-comic horror pastiche, a filmmaker looking for her franchise reboot and its star finds her own sweet spot.
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October 9, 2026 at 6:09 AM
"a filmmaker looking for her franchise reboot and its star finds her own sweet spot": Jane Schoenbrun’s reflexive eroto-comic horror TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (2026) 8.30am/8.20pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/teen...
"sets a community’s kids upon America’s nuclear family": Max Kalmanowicz’s low-budget chiller THE CHILDREN (1980) screens 8.15am today (i.e. right now) at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/t...
The Children (1980) - Projected Figures
Max Kalmanowicz's low-budget chiller THE CHILDREN sets a community's kids upon America's nuclear family, in a topsy-turvy nightmare scenario where familial love is a mortal weakness, infanticide a sal...
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October 9, 2026 at 6:06 AM
"sets a community’s kids upon America’s nuclear family": Max Kalmanowicz’s low-budget chiller THE CHILDREN (1980) screens 8.15am today (i.e. right now) at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/t...
It looks as though the US Secretary of Defense, already known for his alcoholism, philandering, white supremacism, misogyny and all-round poor judgment, is about to add snuff production to his résumé
October 9, 2026 at 5:43 AM
It looks as though the US Secretary of Defense, already known for his alcoholism, philandering, white supremacism, misogyny and all-round poor judgment, is about to add snuff production to his résumé
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10/8/72: Robert Altman's Images
w/Susannah York (from her novel), Rene Auberjonois
York w/best actress @ Cannes
More:
@steverose7.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ap...
@forestpunk.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2023/07/13/o...
@antbit.projectedfigures.com: lwlies.com/home-ents/im...
w/Susannah York (from her novel), Rene Auberjonois
York w/best actress @ Cannes
More:
@steverose7.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ap...
@forestpunk.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2023/07/13/o...
@antbit.projectedfigures.com: lwlies.com/home-ents/im...
Discover the fragmented horrors of this Robert Altman psychodrama
The writer/director’s idiosyncratic 1972 film Images is ripe for rediscovery.
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October 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
10/8/72: Robert Altman's Images
w/Susannah York (from her novel), Rene Auberjonois
York w/best actress @ Cannes
More:
@steverose7.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ap...
@forestpunk.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2023/07/13/o...
@antbit.projectedfigures.com: lwlies.com/home-ents/im...
w/Susannah York (from her novel), Rene Auberjonois
York w/best actress @ Cannes
More:
@steverose7.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ap...
@forestpunk.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2023/07/13/o...
@antbit.projectedfigures.com: lwlies.com/home-ents/im...
No convent without coven
October 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM
No convent without coven
"brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare": @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social's enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD screens 00:15 at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...
The Glorious Dead review at Fantasia 2026: Funny and freaky, grotesque and gory
The Poser/Adams family brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare
www.scifinow.co.uk
October 8, 2026 at 7:11 AM
"brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare": @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social's enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD screens 00:15 at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...
Return to the womb: John Valley’s Christmas psychodrama AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE (2026) "plays with the horrors of homecoming and the damage of cyclical trauma". Screens in the Welcome Marathon at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social from 11.45pm tonight. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/15/a...
American Dollhouse (2026) - Projected Figures
John Valley's Christmas psychodrama AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE plays with the horrors of homecoming and the damage of cyclical trauma
projectedfigures.com
October 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Return to the womb: John Valley’s Christmas psychodrama AMERICAN DOLLHOUSE (2026) "plays with the horrors of homecoming and the damage of cyclical trauma". Screens in the Welcome Marathon at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social from 11.45pm tonight. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/15/a...
Larry Fessenden’s crossover sequel TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL "shows an America in microcosm facing (or not) its unresolved historical legacy and its many demons."
11.45pm in the Welcome Marathon at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/trau...
11.45pm in the Welcome Marathon at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/trau...
Trauma or, Monsters All (2026): Flesh-and-blood practical effects and big ideas | FrightFest 2026
Creatures assemble: Larry Fessenden’s crossover sequel shows an America in microcosm facing (or not) its unresolved historical legacy and its many demons.
www.scifinow.co.uk
October 8, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Larry Fessenden’s crossover sequel TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL "shows an America in microcosm facing (or not) its unresolved historical legacy and its many demons."
11.45pm in the Welcome Marathon at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/trau...
11.45pm in the Welcome Marathon at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/trau...
Love hurts: "Christian values are the danger" in Adrian Chiarella’s queer horror LEVITICUS (2026). Screens 4.15pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @lwlies.com. lwlies.com/reviews/levi...
Leviticus review – a tender queer horror debut
A shape-shifting killer stalks two closeted teenagers in Adrian Chiarella’s gripping debut, though the real terror lies in the bigotry of the small town…
lwlies.com
October 8, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Love hurts: "Christian values are the danger" in Adrian Chiarella’s queer horror LEVITICUS (2026). Screens 4.15pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @lwlies.com. lwlies.com/reviews/levi...
"exposes starving frontiersmen to an Indigenous spirit and to (their own) nature": Casey Walker’s early nineteenth-century proto-horror ITHAQUA (2026) screens 10.45am/5.45pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/itha...
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.
www.scifinow.co.uk
October 8, 2026 at 6:38 AM
"exposes starving frontiersmen to an Indigenous spirit and to (their own) nature": Casey Walker’s early nineteenth-century proto-horror ITHAQUA (2026) screens 10.45am/5.45pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/itha...
A tale of two sisters: in Dave Boyle’s ghostbusting murder mystery NEVER AFTER DARK (2026), ultimately "cinema is the medium that transgresses the boundary between life and death." Screens 10.25pm tonight at Grimmfest . projectedfigures.com/2026/03/14/n...
Never After Dark (2026) - Projected Figures
In Dave Boyle's ghostbusting murder mystery NEVER AFTER DARK, cinema is the medium that transgresses the boundary between life and death
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October 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
A tale of two sisters: in Dave Boyle’s ghostbusting murder mystery NEVER AFTER DARK (2026), ultimately "cinema is the medium that transgresses the boundary between life and death." Screens 10.25pm tonight at Grimmfest . projectedfigures.com/2026/03/14/n...
Electra complex in blue (and pink): Nicolas Winding Refn's "dreamy retro-styled sci-fi noir giallo melodrama ufo" HER PRIVATE HELL (2026) screens 8.30am (rn!) and 4.15pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/her-...
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).
www.scifinow.co.uk
October 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Electra complex in blue (and pink): Nicolas Winding Refn's "dreamy retro-styled sci-fi noir giallo melodrama ufo" HER PRIVATE HELL (2026) screens 8.30am (rn!) and 4.15pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/her-...