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Anton Bitel

@antbit.wsocial.eu

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 · 6h ago

Breaking the mold: here is a transcript of my on-stage intro to Kim Tae-kyeong's twisty apartment-set chiller HOME A LOAN (Go-in Apateu, 2026), for its screening at London Korean Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2026/11/06/h...

Home A Loan (Go-in Apateu) (2026) - Projected Figures

Here is text of my on-stage introduction to Home A Loan (Go-in Apateu) for the London Korean Film Festival, 6 Nov 2026 Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Kim Tae-kye...

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 20h ago

"Much of the pleasure of Kim Tae-kyeong’s feature resides in the indeterminacy of its plotting": (maybe-)haunted apartment horror HOME A LOAN (고인아파트, 2026) screens 8.30pm tonight at Cine Lumiere for London Korean Film Festival, intro'd by me. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/home-...

Home A Loan - London Korean Film Festival

Believing that an abandoned, semi-derelict building in Seoul will soon be redeveloped, Eun-jin (Yoo Seon) purchases a third-floor apartment there for herself, her teen daughter Sung-hye (Lee Seo-yeon)...

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 21h ago

"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) screens 8.30pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for SciFiNow. 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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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 21h ago

"traps a diffident man in the liminal labyrinth of his indecision": Genki Kawamura’s surreal VG adaptation EXIT 8 (2025) screens 10.30pm tonight at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/exit...

Exit 8 review: Genki Kawamura’s looping subway nightmare turns existential dread into haunting personal rebirth

Genki Kawamura’s surreal VG adaptation traps a diffident man in the liminal labyrinth of his indecision

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 21h ago

Look ma, no hands: Glenn McQuaid’s wickedly camp gothic melodrama THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR (2025) "pits a gay, mutilated pianist against his formidable, heir-fixated mother". On demand from today in the US via Chroma. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/06/t...

The Restoration at Grayson Manor (2025) - Projected Figures

Glenn McQuaid's wickedly camp gothic melodrama THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR pits a gay mutilated pianist against his heir-fixated mother

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 21h ago

"Is it a horror or a comedy? Whatever it is, it will be fun": Yûta Shimotsu’s coming-of-age satire NEW GROUP (2025) "tests how a schoolgirl’s individuality shapes up against society’s collective structures". On Shudder from today. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/01/n...

New Group (2025) - Projected Figures

Yûta Shimotsu's coming-of-age horror satire NEW GROUP tests how a schoolgirl's individuality shapes up against society's structures

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 2d ago

"traps an already divided family together in an avalanche-buried cable car": Lukas Rinker’s high-tension disaster movie FROSTBITE (2026) screens 10.30pm tonight at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/fros...

Frostbite review: High-tension disaster movie and survival thriller | FrightFest 2026

Lukas Rinker’s high-tension disaster movie traps an already divided family together in an avalanche-buried cable car.

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 2d ago

"cross-examines the identity and motives of a woman obsessively observing a horrific murder trial": Pascal Plante’s courtroom drama/cyberthriller RED ROOMS "blankly interrogates the ambiguities behind voyeurism." 9.30pm tonight at Imagine Fantastic FF. Essential! projectedfigures.com/2023/10/07/r...

Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges) (2023) - Projected Figures

Pascal Plante's courtroom drama/cyberthriller RED ROOMS cross-examines the identity and identifications of a woman observing a murder trial

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 2d ago

(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". Screens 8pm today at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/colo...

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.wsocial.eu · 2d ago

"what movies are for, where their magic lies, and how their on-screen fictions are able to trigger memories, mediate dreams and touch the viewer’s core identity": metacinematic anthology TIME OF CINEMA (2025) screens 6.20pm tonight for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/time-...

Time of Cinema - London Korean Film Festival

This reflexive anthology comprises a framing story in a projection booth, and three short films: Lee Jong-pil’s Chimpanzee , Yoon Ga-eun’s Naturally and Jang Kun-jae’s The Time of Younghwa. All are se...

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 2d ago

Chokehold: Stephanie Ahn's BEDFORD PARK (2026) "uses romantic drama to explore cultural clash and intergenerational trauma in the Korean diaspora". Screens 6.10pm today at Ciné Lumière for London Korean Film Festival. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/bedfo...

Bedford Park - London Korean Film Festival

36-year-old Korean-American Audrey Park (Moon Choi) is bound by the expectations of her traditionalist mother and alcoholic father. When an accident brings her into contact with Eli (Son Sukku), an ad...

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 2d ago

Parallel scenes from a marriage: in Caleb Phillips’ sci-fi horror IMPOSTERS (2026), “an unhappy couple searches for a missing baby and lost magic on shifting ground“. Screens 5pm today at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. Recommended. Review for SciFiNow Magazine www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/impo...

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.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

"a vulnerable woman documents her alienation and altering identity for an online horror game": Jane Schoenbrun's mediated psychodrama WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2021) screens 7.10pm today at the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival. Extraordinary! projectedfigures.com/2021/10/10/w...

We're All Going To The World's Fair (2021) - Projected Figures

In Jane Schoenbrun's WE ARE GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR, a woman documents her alienation and altering identity for an online horror game

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

"reimagines John Carpenter’s They Live (1987) – with 2020 vision – for an arrested Argentina’s omnipresent slump": Cristian Ponce's ingeniously structured, unnervingly hallucinatory HISTORY OF THE OCCULT (2020) screens 4.50pm today at Imagine Fantastic Film Fest projectedfigures.com/2021/12/26/a...

A nation's 2020 vision: is this the year that Argentine genre cinema arrives? - Projected Figures

A NATION'S 2020 VISION: IS THIS THE YEAR THAT ARGENTINE GENRE CINEMA ARRIVES?

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

"three Glasgwegian lads clean up their act and take out the trash amid alien invasion": Ben & Nathan Mcquaid’s lo-fi sci-fi comedy/city symphony WELCOME TO G-TOWN (2026) screens 3pm today at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/02/28/w...

Welcome to G-Town (2026) - Projected Figures

In Ben & Nathan McQuaid's lo-fi sci-fi comedy WELCOME TO G-TOWN, Glasgow takes out the trash and cleans its act amid alien invasion

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

Creatures assemble: 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." In US theatres from today via Dark Sky Films/Glass Eye Pix. Review for SciFiNow. 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.

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

"unleashes the now semi-institutionalised scourge of the far right against her ultimate historic enemy": Jenn Wexler’s THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY (2026) is in US theatres from today. Very precise timing, I'd say. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...

The Last Temptation of Becky Review: Wild, bloody action film | FrightFest 2026

Jenn Wexler’s trilogy-closing sequel unleashes the now semi-institutionalised scourge of the far right against her ultimate historic enemy

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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 4d ago

Trickle-down terror: Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty and Chelsea Stardust’s workplace anthology GRIND (2026) "shows the horror (and comedy) of today’s exploitative gig economy". Screens half past midnight tonight at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. 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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Anton Bitel@antbit.wsocial.eu · 4d ago

Finland Empire: Markus Lehmusruusu’s droll, dystopian SQUIRREL (Orava, 2026) "lets future humanity both lose – and rediscover – itself in exiled animality." Screens 8pm tonight at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/20/t...

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.wsocial.eu · 4d ago

"brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare": John Adams & Toby Poser's enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD screens 7.10pm + Q&A at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. 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

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