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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 03 Jun 2014

This chronicle of a death foretold celebrates an individual's efforts to do better even as it laments his - and his nation's - difficulties…

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Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 01 Apr 2014

The Raid 2 is two-and-a-half thrilling hours of genre so perfectly pure that you could bottle it, smash the bottle & thrust the broken end…

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Review of Evil Dead Trap (1988)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 18 Mar 2014

A monstrously stylised orgy of sex, violence and grotesque family dysfunction, insanely remixing past horror films to a Goblin-esque score,…

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Review of Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 18 Mar 2014

Chiodo takes an alien invasion plot familiar from the 50s, and makes it all his own by rigorously and liberally painting it with every clown…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 12 Feb 2014

Like Marco Ferreri's I Love You (1986) or Craig Gillespie's Lars And The Real Girl (2007) played out amidst the technological singularity,…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 18 Dec 2013

Belfort keeps distracting our attention from the minutiae of his fraudulent dealings, instead bamboozling us with what he knows we really want…

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Review of Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 12 Sep 2013

If perhaps not as frightening as the original, Insidious 2 certainly amps up the knowing hokiness (which was always at least a ghostly presence…

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Review of Willow Creek (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 05 Sep 2013

By turns funny and frightening... a perfect hybridisation of familiar found footage tropes and transgressive Bobcattery…

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Review of Headshot (2011)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 05 Mar 2013

If the titular headshot leaves Tul with inverted vision, the film too turns the characteristics of genre upside-down, defamiliarising everything…

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Review of Nightbreed (1990)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

CABAL CUT: We get a little more Decker, and quite a bit more redneck rampaging, but there is also inevitably a whole lot more Boone…

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Review of We Are the Night (2010)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

An odd - and therefore interesting - blend of genetic elitism, feminist emancipation and rave-culture hedonism, where oldworld bloodlines leave…

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Review of The Possession (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

This is slickly made production-line horror that never attempts to do more than merely go through the motions - and not even actors of the…

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Review of Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

Unearthing the old Blitz spirit as an antidote to bleak Tory-led times of social abandonment and exclusion, it is an affectionate mash-up of…

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Review of Grabbers (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

An Irish tentacular Tremors - an icky creature feature with the emphasis on comedy and character, ending (not unlike Shaun of the Dead) in…

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Review of Elevator (2011)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

Suspended on the 47th floor, this lift will stage a volatile collision of the higher-ups and lower-downs, all caught in the glare of a sensationalised,…

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Review of After (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

The SF and horror here come thoroughly grounded in character, and even the hellhound that plagues this locked-in pair is, for all its toothy…

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Review of The Seasoning House (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

The Seasoning House may ultimately feel as compromised and tainted as its heroine - but Hyett remains a rising talent to watch, especially…

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Review of Tower Block (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

A tense siege thriller that uses its genre trappings to expose a blighted, beleaguered underclass of the here and now…

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Review of Elevator (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

Suspended on the 47th floor, this lift will stage a volatile collision of the higher-ups and lower-downs, all caught in the glare of a sensationalised,…

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Review of Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 30 Aug 2012

Strickland disorients viewers with a sly meta-horror that reflects upon both the artifice that goes into genre films, and the uncomfortable…

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