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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 Hidden in the Woods (2012)

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

Every man here is a violent or treacherous pig, every woman a receptacle for cum or bullets - and if the characters and themes are not unpleasant…

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Review of Sleep Tight (2011)

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

So well-performed, finely crafted & classically constructed that it seems hard to accept that every twist and turn is leading up to a chillingly…

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Review of Sinister (2012)

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

It is an ingeniously plotted film, blending 'found footage' with more conventionally objective camerawork, and luring us along with Ellison…

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Review of Chained (2012)

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

Lynch's brutal 'buddy pic' takes some very dark turns, culminating in a walloping twist of a coda…

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Review of Harold's Going Stiff (2011)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 08 Aug 2012

Mockumentary on the monstrousness of modern man…

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Review of Cemetery Man (1994)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 05 Mar 2012

[it is] far closer to the hermetic enigmas of Last Year in Marienbad and the snowglobe microcosms of Citizen Kane than to more generic fare,…

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Review of Underwater Love (2011)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 17 Nov 2011

Elevated far above your average tits 'n' ass exploitationer…

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Review of The Awakening (2011)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 10 Nov 2011

Everything about this classic ghost story is assured, from the shell-shocked performances to the period detail, from the time-layered locations…

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Review of The Awakening (2010)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 10 Nov 2011

Everything about this classic ghost story is assured, from the shell-shocked performances to the period detail, from the time-layered locations…

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Review of Lake Mungo (2009)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 17 Jul 2011

A sophisticated, adult tale that blends complex, compelling emotions with reflexive commentary on film as a 'medium' of memory, manipulation…

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Review of Super (2010)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 06 Jul 2011

Super is funny alright, but only because, in the moral and emotional disorientation that it so skilfully conjures, nervous laughter seems the…

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Review of Insidious (2011)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 26 Apr 2011

When this unpretentious genre piece says boo, you'll jump all right - and it is canny enough in its management of the uncanny to have you laughing…

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Review of Phenomena (1985)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 07 Mar 2011

So over-egged is the story with police procedural, insect science and paranormal events that squaring the circle of all these clashing frames…

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Review of The Hills Run Red (2009)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 01 Dec 2010

A horror film about horror films, replete with not only crowd-pleasing shock and gore but also funny deconstructions of the fixed clichés…

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Review of Late Spring (2014)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 22 Aug 2010

Impermanence…

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Review of Suspiria (1977)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 15 Jan 2010

An extravagantly stylised Danse Macabre…

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Review of Paranormal Activity (2007)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 03 Nov 2009

Oren Peli's low-budget debut Paranormal Activity is a terrifying ménage-à-trois involving a young couple, a demonic presence, and the camera…

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Review of Pontypool (2009)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 15 Oct 2009

This unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror…

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Review of Pig Hunt (2008)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 01 Oct 2009

Shows a real adeptness at confounding the viewer with all manner of genre-bound elements presented in gleefully unpredictable combinations…

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