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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