By Anton Bitel
A mother and her teenage daughter come face to face with death in the form of a strange talking bird in Daina Oniunas-Pusic's feature debut.
By Anton Bitel
A young man sets out to save his true love and ends up caught in a bloody battle aboard a train in Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's riotous actioner.
By Anton Bitel
A maligned VR pioneer, a Powell and Pressburger gem and an Italian football thriller are headed for home ents this month.
By Anton Bitel
Christopher Murray directs and stars in this intriguing and original drama about an 1880s Chilean trial for witchcraft.
By Anton Bitel
A gothic ghost story, a Tokyo love story and a Bob Hoskins classic are among the highlights headed for new editions this month.
By Anton Bitel
A pack of hired goons get more than they bargained for in this inventive and nasty evil kid romp.
By Anton Bitel
An Ozu classic, a wrestling comedy and a Portuguese mystery about strange astronaut-themed dreams are among our picks out on streaming and home ents this month.
By Anton Bitel
A Hideo Nakata classic, a New York city murder mystery and a previously unreleased wuxia adventure are among the highlights on offer this month across physical media and digital.
By Anton Bitel
Killer sloths and a Kubrick classic are among the best new releases hitting physical media and digital this month.
By Anton Bitel
Pagan rituals, a Michael Powell classic and killer alligators are on the agenda in the first of 2024's home ents guides.
By Anton Bitel
Samurai, demon dolls, an actor-murderer and RoboCop are some of the gems to catch up on while you're relaxing this holiday season.
By Anton Bitel
A Jarmusch classic, a meta action thriller and a coming-of-age typhoon drama are among the must-see films coming to streaming and blu-ray this month.
By Anton Bitel
Cannibals, ghosts, demons and housewives are on the schedule for this special spooky season round-up of all the latest in Blu-Ray and DVD releases.
By Anton Bitel
David Gordon Green returns in his role of classic horror reboot guy to exhume and retool William Friedkin’s The Exorcist for new audiences. The results are not pretty at all.
By Anton Bitel
Ken Russell, Peter Bogdanovich and Nicolas Cage's first starring role are among this month's bevvy of exciting home ents releases.
By Anton Bitel
Buster Keaton, time travel and an unlikely romance are among the gems to take home on Blu-ray and DVD this month.
By Anton Bitel
Two Altman gems, a killer shark and an assassin-for-hire are among the best films hitting streaming and physical media this month.
By Anton Bitel
From Robert Eggers' warring wickies to a duel in Edo era Japan, we bring you six unmissable treats from the world of physical media and streaming.
By Anton Bitel
A grieving family find themselves terrorised by a supernatural monster in Rob Savage's jump to big studio horror.
By Anton Bitel
A teenage misfit is challenged by a new school and local bullies in this cult classic Japanese coming-of-age film.
By Anton Bitel
Christophe Gans' fantasy-action-horror – loosely based on a true story – boasts a starry cast and some highly memorable set pieces.
By Anton Bitel
Junya Sato's classic action-crime film depicts a group of disenfranchised men who attempt to pull of an audacious crime involving a speeding train.
By Anton Bitel
This 1979 Spanish arthouse film, being rereleased by Radiance, is a fascinating, tricky cult horror.
By Anton Bitel
Neighbourly hostility abounds in Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen's latest psychological thriller, set in the Galician countryside.
By Anton Bitel
A ronin with lofty ambitions tells a white lie that quickly spirals out of control in this riotous samurai flick.
By Anton Bitel
Murderous teens, strange growths and television-haunting ghosts are on the bill in SXSW's midnight movies slate.
By Anton Bitel
Business as usual – albeit with a side of Big Apple – for the long-running meta-slasher franchise with enough sass to get it across the finish line.
By Anton Bitel
Todd Solondz's dark coming-of-ager sees an magnificent Heather Matarazzo play the ultimate awkward preteen in Dawn Wiener.
By Anton Bitel
A woman who has worked hard to hide her past finds she can't run from it forever in Nathaniel Martello-White's assured debut.
By Anton Bitel
George Armitage's 1990 neo-noir starring Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh is a chaotic game of cat and mouse.
By Anton Bitel
Two men snowed in at a remote cabin await the return of their boss in Andrey Paounov's unique, existential horror.
By Anton Bitel
A young couple reeling from a violent attack play host to strange house guests in Jon Wright's Irish horror.
By Anton Bitel
The horror director turns his attention to comedy and romance with his prequel version of The Munsters.
By Anton Bitel
Elio Petri's The Working Class Goes to Heaven remains a sobering portrait of life as a cog in the oppressive machine.
By Anton Bitel
A young brother and sister face their worst fears in Kyle Edward Ball's inventive microbudget horror.
By Anton Bitel
A hardened detective teams up with a young Edgar Allen Poe to solve a murder in Scott Cooper's chilly thriller.
By Anton Bitel
Christmas Bloody Christmas is a Yuletide horror with a dark sense of humour and some killer robots.
By Anton Bitel
As a restoration of the 1976 remake lands on home entertainment platforms, it's a fascinating insight into the on-screen story of this iconic feature creature.
By Anton Bitel
This blood-soaked South Korean sequel picks up where The Witch: Part 1 left off, with a pair of supernatural twins causing havoc.
By Anton Bitel
Sammo Hung stars as a hapless amateur detective in Wu Ma's classic comedy caper.
By Anton Bitel
Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discover an ominous paranormal entity in their meta fifth feature.
By Anton Bitel
The BBC pulled off an ingenious prank with their 1992 paranormal investigation, which has proven an inspiration for the found footage boom.
By Anton Bitel
Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack's The Most Dangerous Game still has the power to shock, 80 years after its release.
By Anton Bitel
Like its predecessors, 1992’s Police Story 3: Supercop offers plenty of thrills and spills – but with more political commentary.
By Anton Bitel
A holidaying couple becomes involved in a tragic event in Aga Woszczyńska’s chilly psychodrama.
By Anton Bitel
Jonathan Weiss offers an unconventional and disturbing adaptation of J.G Ballard's 'unadaptable' work of experimental fiction.
By Anton Bitel
A group of medical students push the boundary between life and death in this bombastic thriller.
By Anton Bitel
A beleaguered detective faces off against two different thieves in the Hong Kong director’s two-part crime caper.
By Anton Bitel
Ron Underwood's 1990 giant worm flick gets the ultra HD treatment care of Arrow Films.
By Anton Bitel
A group of bourgeoise friends attend the strangest dinner party in this late period Buñuel classic.
By Anton Bitel
Scott Derrickson returns to his horror roots with this story of a pre-teen who faces off against a sinister serial killer, with help from his previous victims.
By Anton Bitel
An intergenerational matriarchy embarks on a crime spree in the late director’s 1975 action-comedy.
By Anton Bitel
The director’s short experimental feature, Lux Æterna, plays like a panic attack before reaching a rapturous crescendo.
By Anton Bitel
The likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream owe something to Robert Deubel’s co-ed carve up Girls Nite Out.
By Anton Bitel
Fredric Hobbs' surreal 1973 film sees a giant mutant sheep terrorise the residents of a sleepy town in rural Nevada.
By Anton Bitel
A family find themselves troubled by malevolent familial forces in director Kate Dolan’s tense drama-horror.
By Anton Bitel
Ethan Hawke stars in this poetic and strange thriller about a military operative chasing multiple threads in Rome.
By Anton Bitel
A couple pay a visit to an ex-partner and her family in Sebastian Godwin’s effective domestic horror.
By Anton Bitel
Kaizo Hayashi’s ’80s crime drama To Sleep So as to Dream is a rich homage to Japan’s cinematic heritage.
By Anton Bitel
Christina Ricci stars as a mother on the edge in director Chris Sivertson’s lakeside creature feature.
By Anton Bitel
Joseph and Vanessa Winter blend horror and comedy in this entertaining haunted house freak-out.
By Anton Bitel
Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki’s offbeat Funky Forest: The First Contact is now available on Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
We survey the most exciting titles screening at Glasgow’s premiere annual celebration of film.
By Anton Bitel
The Duplass brothers’ Baghead, starring Greta Gerwig in one of her first screen roles, is a charming love letter to DIY filmmaking.
By Anton Bitel
Crazy Thunder Road, director Sogo Ishii’s explosive anti-establishment thriller, is dedicated “to all crazy bikers”.
By Anton Bitel
Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discover an ominous paranormal entity in their meta fifth feature.
By Anton Bitel
The Italian genre maestro’s final film, 1977’s Shock, is a haunted house horror quite unlike any other.
By Anton Bitel
This stylishly directed “requel” trickily rakes over the grave of the original Scream films, but please, no more!
By Anton Bitel
Renee Harmon is the eponymous Lady Street Fighter in one of the most outrageous exploitation movies ever made.
By Anton Bitel
Richard Benjamin’s hokey My Stepmother is an Alien is an effects-heavy time capsule of ’80s excess.
By Anton Bitel
Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s 1998 horror mockumentary The Last Broadcast predates The Blair Witch Project.
By Anton Bitel
The maverick Italian director’s 1976 film Free Hand for a Tough Cop is now available in the UK for the first time.
By Anton Bitel
The Roger Corman-produced Dementia 13 is much more than a quickie Hitchcock ripoff, as this Director’s Cut proves.
By Anton Bitel
The director’s 2002 drama about life on a London housing estate is a film of bleak moments and occasional hope.
By Anton Bitel
The Italian director’s 1975 giallo classic is being re-released in a newly restored, longer edit with additional scenes.
By Anton Bitel
A horned entity stalks Keri Russell’s school teacher in director Scott Cooper’s allegorical American horror story.
By Anton Bitel
Quebec’s modernist sci-fi maestro talks big screens and small gestures, and how he brought the arid world of Arrakis to life.
By Anton Bitel
Toshiaki Toyoda’s Monsters Club sees a Unabomber-like character wage a private war from a remote cabin in the woods.
By Anton Bitel
Marco Ferreri’s controversial The Ape Woman is a deeply cynical portrayal of masculinity bestialised and femininity reified.
By Anton Bitel
With its progressive gender politics and liberal undertow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.
By Anton Bitel
In 1983’s Suburbia and 1985’s The Boys Next Door, the Reagan era is a place of lay-offs, layabouts and general decay.
By Anton Bitel
Yasuzô Masumura’s macabre masterpiece Blind Beast paints an unnerving portrait of an artist and his muse.
By Anton Bitel
John Frankenheimer’s Prophecy sees Mother Nature exact revenge against a researcher couple in rural Maine.
By Anton Bitel
A backwater preacher pushes his small congregation to its limits in this quasi-mystical Colombian parable.
By Anton Bitel
Starring Linda Blair as a textbook final girl, Tom DeSimone’s 1981 Hell Night offers an effective blend of horrors old and new.
By Anton Bitel
With its movie nerd hero, doting blonde heroine and shocking violence, this early ’90s cult classic is peak Tarantino.
By Anton Bitel
Tezuka’s Barbara is a meta ode to the director’s late father, the ‘godfather’ of the Japanese graphic novel.
By Anton Bitel
Marc Isaacs’ docu-fiction hybrid has fun subverting the sit-com format, but feels glib and exploitative.
By Anton Bitel
Paul Verhoeven’s subversive 1992 film is a Hitchcockian thriller with the kink brought to the surface.
By Anton Bitel
George A Romero’s long-lost public service announcement captures the inherent horrors of old age.
By Anton Bitel
The angst-ridden Over the Edge from 1979 was a major influence on Richard Linklater and Kurt Cobain.
By Anton Bitel
Yasuzô Masumura’s Giants and Toys from 1958, about rival confectionary companies, shows a nation in flux.
By Anton Bitel
Jordan Downey’s fantasy revenge horror The Head Hunter pays homage to Sami Raimi’s Evil Dead series.
By Anton Bitel
Based on real events, Sergio Martino’s Silent Action from 1975 is as cynical as it is uncompromising.
By Anton Bitel
The Black Cat was the first of six Universal pictures to star Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
By Anton Bitel
Viy, Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov’s 1967 Gothic chiller, boasts spectacular visuals and effects.
By Anton Bitel
This blood-lashed black comedy takes aim at rightist trolls as it explores the limits of free speech.
By Anton Bitel
Starring Denise Richards and an animatronic dino, Tammy and the T-Rex is one of the decade’s campiest curios.
By Anton Bitel
With its surreal premise and zoological themes, Richard Franklin’s Link remains a most curious creature.
By Anton Bitel
The cult director’s 1964 Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Masque of the Red Death sees Vincent Price sell his soul.
By Anton Bitel
2000’s JSA – Joint Security Area was one of the first significant films of the so-called Korean Wave.
By Anton Bitel
House of Bamboo, one of the first American features to be shot in Japan, is as hard-boiled as they come.
By Anton Bitel
Joe Manganiello stars in this sort-of superhero origin story from director Adam Egypt Mortimer.
By Anton Bitel
Denis Villeneuve’s third feature, which respectfully dramatises a real-life school shooting, remains tragically relevant.
By Anton Bitel
One man’s quest to find his missing hammer becomes a profound existential journey in this stripped-down comedy.
By Anton Bitel
The documentary maker discusses Leap of Faith, his spiritual excavation of William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece.
By Anton Bitel
Godzilla creator Ishiro Honda’s globe-trotting adventure is a strangely sweet family adventure.
By Anton Bitel
The original theatrical cut of Charles E Sellier Jr’s Silent Night, Deadly Night is now available on Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
The Tetsuo director is at his hyper-stylised, idiosyncratic best in this unnerving period tale.
By Anton Bitel
Generational trauma and a fear of the unknown power Remi Weekes’ bone-chilling haunted house horror.
By Anton Bitel
A pious young nurse experiences an extreme crisis of faith in writer/director Rose Glass’ arresting psychodrama.
By Anton Bitel
The Taste of Tea marks an intriguing departure from director Katsuhito Ishii’s earlier Tarantino-esque capers.
By Anton Bitel
Director Fruit Chan’s 1997 indie Made in Hong Kong captures a group of characters – and a city – in transition.
By Anton Bitel
Bong Joon-ho’s wryly funny social commentary is released for the first time in the UK courtesy of Curzon.
By Anton Bitel
Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honor and Takashi Miike’s 2002 update redefined the postwar Japanese gangster flick.
By Anton Bitel
A grieving couple embark on a camping trip in writer/director Johannes Nyholm’s folkloric psychological horror.
By Anton Bitel
Paul Leni’s 1928 chiller, starring Conrad Veidt as a grinning carnival performer, is one of the most important films of the late silent era.
By Anton Bitel
With its camp aesthetic and winking humour, Mike Hodges’ swash-buckling space romp is undeniably a product of its time.
By Anton Bitel
A Cornish caravan park provides the backdrop to a young woman’s sexual (re)awakening in Claire Oakley’s impressive debut.
By Anton Bitel
The director’s 1997 film contains a sly parody of the capitalist ideals underpinning the American Dream.
By Anton Bitel
Ricky Lau’s 1985 hit Mr Vampire deftly combines knockabout comedy, martial arts, monster horror and wacky dancing.
By Anton Bitel
Sean S Cunningham’s The New Kids sees James Spader terrorise a group of upwardly-mobile youths.
By Anton Bitel
After Midnight confirms co-directors Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella as among most exciting talents working in American independent horror today.
By Anton Bitel
Christian Duguay’s Screamers, starring RoboCop’s Peter Weller, was originally conceived back in 1981.
By Anton Bitel
Yedidya Gorsetman’s 2018 film Empathy, Inc explores themes of identity, alterity and technophobia.
By Anton Bitel
Masaki Kobayashi’s Oscar-winning 1964 anthology film Kwaidan is now available on Blu-ray for the first time.
By Anton Bitel
The director and star of cult horror hit Pontypool reunite for a hard-boiled hitman noir.
By Anton Bitel
Warner Bros took legal action over 1974’s Beyond the Door, but its differences from Friedkin’s film are more striking than its similarities.
By Anton Bitel
Atsushi Yamatoya’s 1967 Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wasteland subverts expectations of this softcore genre.
By Anton Bitel
The Chinese master’s 1979 Raining in the Mountain is now available on home video for the first time in the UK.
By Anton Bitel
José Ramón Larraz’s slasher swansong, Deadly Manor, features some playfully misdirection and an insane ending.
By Anton Bitel
A scene-stealing Jim Carrey just about sustains this fast, fun and forgettable video game crossover.
By Anton Bitel
A young romance blooms one wild night in Tokyo in director Takashi Miike’s high-energy caper.
By Anton Bitel
A traumatised man summons his former imaginary friend in Adam Egypt Mortimer’s knotty psychological thriller.
By Anton Bitel
José Ramón Larraz’s Edge of the Axe buries several over-used tropes of the genre.
By Anton Bitel
Floria Sigismondi’s long-delayed update of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ finally surfaces – was the wait worth it?
By Anton Bitel
The visionary Italian director’s 1981 film The Beyond remains one of his most unnerving, transgressive works.
By Anton Bitel
A sense of creative conflict infuses William Peter Blatty’s spiritual follow-up to William Friedkin’s 1973 classic.
By Anton Bitel
The 1980 coming-of-ager Spetters is one of the Dutch master’s most uncompromising and controversial works.
By Anton Bitel
Irvin Berwick’s cult 1983 film Hitch Hike to Hell is an American nightmare writ large.
By Anton Bitel
Paul Wegener’s nightmarish take on the Golem of Jewish folklore introduced German Expressionism to the world.
By Anton Bitel
Lupita Nyong’o defends a group of school kids from a zombie horde in Abe Forsythe’s tame comedy-horror.
By Anton Bitel
Ewan McGregor retreads familiar ground in this sequel to Stephen King’s (and Stanley Kubrick’s) The Shining.
By Anton Bitel
Romance, tragedy and horror combine to potent effect in director John Landis’ iconic 1981 feature.
By Anton Bitel
Stanley H Brassloff’s Toys Are Not for Children centres on a doll-like heroine with severe daddy issues.
By Anton Bitel
The Italian horror maestro’s 1971 film A Bay of Blood remains one of his most shocking works.
By Anton Bitel
Away from the showpiece gala screenings, these are the films worth seeking out at this year’s LFF.
By Anton Bitel
Rambo starts off breaking horses before breaking skulls in this strangely laconic revenge fantasy involving the Mexican cartels.
By Anton Bitel
A new Blu-ray of this 1984 cheapjack sequel shows there's more value to it than meets the eye.
By Anton Bitel
Time stands still in more ways than one as this dull rehash of Andy Muschietti’s 2017 horror overstays its welcome.
By Anton Bitel
The director of Piranha 3D goes back into the water for this alligator-based creature feature starring Kaya Scodelario.
By Anton Bitel
This documentary reveals how HP Lovecraft, Francis Bacon and Alejandro Jodorowsky inspired Ridley Scott’s sci-fi opus.
By Anton Bitel
William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller casts an unwavering eye over New York’s gay S&M subculture.
By Anton Bitel
Both film are now available as part of a special collector’s edition box set.
By Anton Bitel
The French auteur’s 1999 erotic drama challenges the viewer to separate sex from love.
By Anton Bitel
Thomas Vinterberg reconstructs the K-141 Kursk submarine disaster but throws in a few too many gimmicks.
By Anton Bitel
The demonic doll is back playing paranormal havoc as this horror franchise points to its future.
By Anton Bitel
A masked killer targets Vanessa Paradis’ adult film producer in Yann Gonzalez’s neon camp thriller.
By Anton Bitel
Peter Strickland spins a yarn about a haunted dress in this fashionable freakout.
By Anton Bitel
A man wrestles with his telepathic powers in Roger Christian’s disturbing directorial debut.
By Anton Bitel
Robert Wise’s 1971 sci-fi The Andromeda Strain tapped into space race and Cold War anxieties.
By Anton Bitel
A teenager exacts revenge on her sister’s cyber stalker in Sarah Pirozek’s socially-conscious thriller.
By Anton Bitel
Octavia Spencer reckons with teenage trauma in this suspenseful and darkly funny smalltown horror.
By Anton Bitel
The French filmmaker explores the dark side of the internet age in this erotic thriller from 2002.
By Anton Bitel
The third instalment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise is a clash of the titans on an epic scale.
By Anton Bitel
Toshiaki Toyoda’s Blue Spring perfectly captures the fleeting excitement of youth.
By Anton Bitel
Susanne Wolff plays a woman lost at sea in this smart nautical allegory from Wolfgang Fischer.
By Anton Bitel
This retro-styled slasher from first-time director Dallas Jackson has a distinctly modern flavour.
By Anton Bitel
Neil Marshall’s reboot finds our red-skinned hero caught on the horn’s of his own destined dilemma.
By Anton Bitel
A newlywed woman is transformed into a vampiric beast in Erik Blomberg’s supernatural tale.
By Anton Bitel
An 8K presentation of the director’s VR project provides a uniquely immersive experience.
By Anton Bitel
Tony Williams’ 1982 horror Next of Kin bears all the hallmarks of classic Victorian gothic.
By Anton Bitel
Daniel Liatowitsch and David Todd Ocvirk’s Kolobos preempted the rise of reality TV.
By Anton Bitel
A customs officer falls in love with a strange traveller in Ali Abbasi’s twisted modern romance.
By Anton Bitel
Occult thrills abound in director Camilo Vila’s New Orleans-set exorcism fable The Unholy.
By Anton Bitel
Joel Horwood and Tom Scutt’s production brilliantly amplifies Peter Strickland’s 2012 film.
By Anton Bitel
Eugenio Martín’s Horror Express is like a locomotive mash-up of The Thing and Murder on the Orient Express.
By Anton Bitel
The horror maestro’s 1987 giallo is released in a special new 2K restoration this month.
By Anton Bitel
A new restoration reveals the insane ambition of this bloated Kevin Costner vehicle.
By Anton Bitel
A babysitter is terrorised by an anonymous called in Fred Walton’s proto-slasher When a Stranger Calls.
By Anton Bitel
In 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Cassandra Peterson’s heroine proudly display her two best assets.
By Anton Bitel
The prolific filmmaker Teruo Ishii invented a whole new subgenrre with 1969’s bizarre Orgies of Edo.
By Anton Bitel
The genre maestro’s dystopian thriller feels eerily prescient in its depiction of a broken police state.
By Anton Bitel
Luca Guadagnino puts a bold allegorical spin on Dario Argento’s baroque horror classic.
By Anton Bitel
Tilman Singer’s intense psychodrama was among the highlights of the inaugural genre showcase.
By Anton Bitel
Two US soldiers make a surprising discovery behind enemy lines in this World War Two horror from Julius Avery.
By Anton Bitel
Bernard Rose’s cult 1992 horror, based on a Clive Barker short story, tackles sex, class and race in inner-city Chicago.
By Anton Bitel
The genre maestro’s 1998 Monkey Shines was dubbed ‘An Experiment In Fear’ – and with good reason.
By Anton Bitel
Personal recommendations to seek out during the upcoming edition of the UK’s biggest film event.
By Anton Bitel
On the envelope-pushing effects work of Sam Raimi’s hand-tooled gorefest, set for re-release this Halloween.
By Anton Bitel
Ted Post’s 1973 film The Baby takes the notion of the dysfunctional family to a whole other level.
By Anton Bitel
Eli Roth’s latest offering is a Harry Potter-fied version of a 1950s haunted house horror.
By Anton Bitel
Teruo Ishii’s Horrors of Malformed Men contains one of cinema’s most straightforwardly stark raving villains.
By Anton Bitel
A man finds himself aided in his quest for revenge by an unusual piece of tech in this slick thriller from Leigh Whannell.
By Anton Bitel
Akio Jissôji’s celebrated – and controversial – This Transient Life boldly challenges social convention.
By Anton Bitel
Umberto Lenzi’s Cannibal Ferox fully deserves its reputation as one of the genre’s toughest watches.
By Anton Bitel
Shot in a real abandoned asylum, Richard Friedman’s gore-fest shows a subgenre in microcosm.
By Anton Bitel
This Purge origin story presents a timely dystopian vision of America’s class, race and culture wars.
By Anton Bitel
Resolution, from filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, is a true original.
By Anton Bitel
Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin play a young couple lost at sea in Baltasar Kormákur’s survival romance.
By Anton Bitel
The end of the world is just the beginning in Geoff Murphy’s The Quiet Earth from 1985.
By Anton Bitel
Third Window Films are releasing two Animerama series films from Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka.
By Anton Bitel
Marcin Wrona’s 2015 film Demon puts a modern twist on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
By Anton Bitel
David Cronenberg’s 1999 tech-thriller sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh enter a strange VR world.
By Anton Bitel
Evan Rachel Wood stars in this twisty erotic thriller about a cleaner who strikes up a friendship with a client’s daughter.
By Anton Bitel
An entrancing existential streak runs through Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 film, Cure.
By Anton Bitel
Mick Jackson’s BBC telemovie Threads imagines the devastating fallout of nuclear war.
By Anton Bitel
Todd Haynes’ wistful adaptation of Brian Selznick’s novel is a tad too saccharine for its own good.
By Anton Bitel
There’s much to admire about this muted horror from actor-director John Krasinksi.
By Anton Bitel
The writer/director’s idiosyncratic 1972 film Images is ripe for rediscovery.
By Anton Bitel
Some of the year’s best and most challenging genre titles were served up over a truly chilling weekend.
By Anton Bitel
The French director’s 1968 La Prisonnière aka Woman in Chains is both compelling and perverse.
By Anton Bitel
Made over 17 years, this unlikely series is among the indie writer/director’s finest achievements.
By Anton Bitel
John Grissmer’s Scalpel, about a psychopathic plastic surgeon, has been rescued from VHS obscurity.
By Anton Bitel
A 4K restoration of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is being released.
By Anton Bitel
Peter Collinson’s Straight on Till Morning offers a grisly vision of Britain in the 1970s.
By Anton Bitel
The Italian director’s 1971 giallo shows a visionary film artist still finding his feet.
By Anton Bitel
There’s shades of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now in this twisty mystery thriller from writer/director Gary Sinyor.
By Anton Bitel
Adolescence is key to everything in this seminal Stephen King adaptation from 1974.
By Anton Bitel
Forty years on, the director’s nightmarish gialli has lost none of its potency.
By Anton Bitel
Ana Asensio gives an assured debut as writer and director with this haunting story about a migrant woman in the Big Apple.
By Anton Bitel
Salim Shaheen, Afghanistan’s singular, strutting auteur, is the subject of this wonderfully entertaining doc.
By Anton Bitel
Sion Sono’s fantasy horror TAG features one of the most arresting opening sequences in movie history.
By Anton Bitel
Black Christmas contains one of the earliest examples of the ‘final girl’ trope in horror cinema.
By Anton Bitel
The director’s newly-restored 1982 film continues to stand the test of time.
By Anton Bitel
Joe Dante’s The Howling is a perfect blend of modern horror and practical effects.
By Anton Bitel
The players behind this year’s festival offer their personal viewing recommendations.
By Anton Bitel
Kill, Baby... Kill! contains one of cinema’s earliest evil children.
By Anton Bitel
Shinya Tsukamoto’s Fires on the Plain is a harrowing reminder of the futility and madness of human conflict.
By Anton Bitel
Director Juan Carlos Medina takes us on a grisly tour through Victorian London in this terrific gothic chiller.
By Anton Bitel
Sergio Martino’s schlocky 1973 film Torso offers a masterclass in the male gaze.
By Anton Bitel
JS Cardone’s The Slayer also centres around a vindictive bogeyman.
By Anton Bitel
Richard Franklin’s follow-up to the Hitchcock classic is a chilling horror in its own right.
By Anton Bitel
The cult filmmaker reflects on his remarkable career in this compelling docu-portrait.
By Anton Bitel
Jörg Buttgereit’s necrophilia-themed 1991 horror Nekromantik 2 is now out on Blu-ray/DVD.
By Anton Bitel
The Amityville Horror is one of the great ’70s genre films.
By Anton Bitel
Ovidio G Assonitis’ Madhouse similarly concerns a damaged woman’s psychotic meltdown.
By Anton Bitel
There’s an ecological thread running though this delightful animated fable from Studio Ghibli.
By Anton Bitel
“Sonny” Chiba-starring Japanese genre hybrid Wolf Guy is now available on home video.
By Anton Bitel
Sidney J Furie’s The Entity is deeply disturbing but essential viewing.
By Anton Bitel
Jason Blum, producer of The Purge, Insidious and Get Out, offers valuable insight into low-budget movie making.
By Anton Bitel
A young family comes apart at the seams in this gripping drama from Japanese writer/director Kôji Fukada.
By Anton Bitel
Juzo Itami’s ‘ramen western’ Tampopo – finally out on Blu-ray – is a culinary romp like no other.
By Anton Bitel
Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead serve up a meta meditation on cults in this smart genre-blurring thriller.
By Anton Bitel
Shinichi Fukazawa’s Super-8 gem Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell is a throwback to ’80s horror.
By Anton Bitel
Greg McLean and James Gunn turn just another day at the office into full-blown battle royale.
By Anton Bitel
Juan Piquer Simón’s Pieces is among the goriest films ever made.
By Anton Bitel
Undead Nazi soldiers and gratuitous nudity overflows in Zombie Lake, now out on DVD.
By Anton Bitel
The actor delivers arguably his finest hour in Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail.
By Anton Bitel
This latest reboot of Japan’s longest-running movie franchise is big, fun and very dumb.
By Anton Bitel
Gore Verbinski’s macabre asylum thriller offers an intoxicating blend of mystery and surrealism.
By Anton Bitel
Jordan Peele’s thoroughly modern horror examines racism in America with a sharp, darkly funny eye.
By Anton Bitel
Is Gilbert Moses’ Willie Dynamite a paean to pimp life or a flamboyant allegory of the American Dream?
By Anton Bitel
Destruction Babies is raucous rebel filmmaking at its brutal best.
By Anton Bitel
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia has inspired everything from Barton Fink to Swiss Army Man.
By Anton Bitel
James McAvoy is on spine-tingling form in this effective thriller from M Night Shyamalan.
By Anton Bitel
Metropolis, Rintaro’s 2001 manga spin-off, is coming to DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Alejandro Jodorowsky embarks on a(nother) mad, metaphysical quest for identity.
By Anton Bitel
Dinosaurs are well and good, but One Million Years BC proves it is sex that really sells.
By Anton Bitel
Adrian Tofei goes full psycho-stalker in Be My Cat: A Film for Anne.
By Anton Bitel
A troubled man cracks under immense pressure in the director’s cult 1976 thriller.
By Anton Bitel
Japanese director Eiji Uchida’s Lowlife Love is now available to own on DVD and Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
An outbreak of madness and murder takes hold of a small South Korean town in this superlative thriller.
By Anton Bitel
Law abiding becomes a matter of life and death in Marcus Dunstan’s The Neighbour.
By Anton Bitel
Director Mike Flanagan dramatically improves the fortunes of this would-be franchise with a smart, scary-as-hell horror.
By Anton Bitel
These funny-faced pranksters continue to inspire a special blend of amusement and unease – and movies are partly to blame.
By Anton Bitel
Joseph Sims-Dennett’s taut psychological thriller Observance is out now on DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Need help navigating the massive LFF line-up? Here are 10 more left-field gems for you to seek out.
By Anton Bitel
Don Sharp’s Psychomania is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
Swiss director Tobias Nölle stuns with this haunting feature debut about alienation and hope.
By Anton Bitel
A new star rises in Sennia Nanua who plays a preteen zombie who’s still showing signs of life.
By Anton Bitel
Taika Waititi lays on the charm in this storybook adventure yarn about a young Maori orphan.
By Anton Bitel
The long-awaited horror sequel no one saw coming is here – and it’s scary as hell.
By Anton Bitel
Darren Lynn Bousman’s gory latest, Abattoir, is now available to buy and stream.
By Anton Bitel
Find out what’s top of the pile in our gore-drenched salute to the horror cinema bonanza.
By Anton Bitel
Are these the creepiest cuts from the dark heart of modern horror cinema?
By Anton Bitel
Cannibalism and nudity abound in Microwave Massacre, now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
By Anton Bitel
The blood-soaked, multi-authored Southbound is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
The second sequel to 2013’s dystopian satire feels eerily prescient in its depiction of a polarised America.
By Anton Bitel
JR Bookwalter’s Evil Dead-inspired feature debut The Dead Next Door is now available on DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Simon Pegg brings the funny on script detail in this rollicking second sequel in the latest Trek adventure.
By Anton Bitel
In Christopher Nolan’s urban epic, Batman takes on The Joker… or should that be, George W Bush takes on Osama Bin Laden?
By Anton Bitel
Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s black-and-white shocker, is out on DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Pixar’s latest transoceanic odyssey is a pixel-perfect comedy about learning to overcome adversity and disability.
By Anton Bitel
Robert Altman’s second feature, That Cold Day in the Park, is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Adam Schindler’s directorial debut Intruders offers a suspenseful blend of tragedy and trauma.
By Anton Bitel
Despite the silly names and cheesy nerdism there’s plenty of fun to be had in Duncan Jones’ video game adaptation.
By Anton Bitel
Alan Clarke’s made-for-TV Penda’s Fen is getting a long-overdue home ents release.
By Anton Bitel
Indonesian writer/director Joko Anwar’s 2012 film Ritual is now available on DVD.
By Anton Bitel
There’s charm, humour and no shortage of strangeness in this radical rewriting of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.
By Anton Bitel
The Green Room director offers some sage advice on how to ride the wave of your first indie hit.
By Anton Bitel
William Peter Blatty’s madballs directorial debut, The Ninth Configuration, is finally available on DVD and Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
José Ramón Larraz’s chilling 1974 film Symptoms is coming to Blu-ray and DVD this month.
By Anton Bitel
Marc Carreté’s Barcelona-set horror debut Asmodexia is out on DVD this month.
By Anton Bitel
Ben Wheatley serves up a sensational 21st century satire that’s funny and frightening in equal measure.
By Anton Bitel
David Winters’ self-reflexive slasher from 1982, The Last Horror Film, is now available on DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Director David Farr delivers a top-notch domestic drama starring a maternally-conflicted Clémence Poésy.
By Anton Bitel
Norwegian disaster movie The Wave was among the highlights of Scotland’s annual carnival of genre.
By Anton Bitel
There lots to admire in Michael Shumway’s directorial debut about an all-out extra-terrestrial invasion.
By Anton Bitel
Derek Mungor’s perspective-flipping horror, You Are Not Alone, is available on Blu-ray and DVD this month.
By Anton Bitel
King Hu’s seminal ’70s wuxia is finally arriving on Blu-ray and DVD later this month.
By Anton Bitel
Classic ’80s actioners Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III: The Domination are coming to Blu-ray and DVD.
By Anton Bitel
Lose yourself in the mind-bending majesty of Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s cine odyssey.
By Anton Bitel
A vital reimagining of ʻThe Scottish Play’ with stellar turns from Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
By Anton Bitel
This harrowing Belgian noir thriller explores the subject of paedophila with great verve and tact.
By Anton Bitel
The high priest of gloom, Bruno Dumont, returns with a comedy which is part Jacques Tati, part Twin Peaks.
By Anton Bitel
Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s punishingly bleak tribute to silent cinema and modern disability is a great debut.
By Anton Bitel
This quietly radical and poetic teen drama depicts the black experience in the suburbs of Paris.
By Anton Bitel
Studio Ghibli does it again with this vibrant, bittersweet adaptation of a classic Japanese folk tale.
By Anton Bitel
A petrifying and refreshingly original horror movie from American name-to-watch, David Robert Mitchell.
By Anton Bitel
Richard Ayoade branches out into steampunk paranoia with this feisty and funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella.
By Anton Bitel
Ahoy sexy! In which the great Greta Grewig stakes a convincing claim to the thrown of most loveable living screen actress.
By Anton Bitel
Bloodsuckers hit the beach in Neil Jordan’s woozy and extremely violent British noir.
By Anton Bitel
An indulgent and original horror bonanza from auteur-in-the making, Rob Zombie.
By Anton Bitel
Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu returns with a searing love story that riffs on both The Exorcist and Black Narcissus.
By Anton Bitel
You won’t see a masked vigilante movie more morally responsible or edgy this side of The Dark Knight.
By Anton Bitel
Alain Resnais’ 1961 classic is as elegant in its symmetries as it is perplexing in its paradoxes.
By Anton Bitel
Takashi Miike’s magnificent 13 marks both the end of an era and the boundary of a genre.
By Anton Bitel
Despite all the flying, its jarring mismatch of hyperrealism and unabashed fantasy stops it soaring.
By Anton Bitel
In his low-budget feature debut, Ben Wheatley brings a very English working-class brand of domestic banality to his evil.
By Anton Bitel
Tim Burton has always been a visual storyteller and his Alice is a source of visual wonder.
By Anton Bitel
At its heart, Ponyo is a film about a global catastrophe, but the apocalypse has seldom seemed so joyous or tender.
By Anton Bitel
The biggest auto-based franchise around gets the high-spec reboot it probably didn’t deserve.
By Anton Bitel
Pablo Larraín’s Saturday Night Fever-inspired drama is a damning indictment of the Pinochet dictatorship.
By Anton Bitel
Tom Hardy delivers a knockout performance as Britain’s most notorious convict in this bruising psychodrama.
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