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A great action film for every year, 1924 to now
The story of action cinema – year by year, blow by blow.
By Henry Barnes, Anton Bitel and others
A great action film for every year, 1924 to now
Anton Bitel
All articles by Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great horror films of the decade so far
By Anton Bitel
Terrifier 3: the murderous clown returns for a mean-spirited Santa slasher
By Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great comedy horror films
By Anton Bitel
Lists
Body horror and the beauty myth: 6 influences and intertexts for The Substance
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Cuckoo: Hunter Schafer gives a game performance in this unapologetically berserk horror
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Horror’s female gaze: 6 features directed by women at FrightFest 2024
By Anton Bitel
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Trap: M. Night Shyamalan tests our morality in this twisted family thriller
By Anton Bitel
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MaXXXine: a gory, self-consciously derivative exposé of the Hollywood machine
By Anton Bitel
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The Exorcism: a sophisticated, metacinematic take on genre
By Anton Bitel
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Immaculate: Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a giallo in a convent
By Anton Bitel
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Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
The Dead Don’t Hurt: a ruminative state-of-the-nation western
By Anton Bitel
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Lisa Frankenstein: patchy zombie teen horror goes gravedigging in 1980s pop culture
By Anton Bitel
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Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Dream Scenario: Nic Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams in this surreal satire of online exposure
By Anton Bitel
Features
LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Horror gets weird: 6 oddities from FrightFest 2023
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
T.I.M.: an unnerving AI thriller
By Anton Bitel
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Meg 2: The Trench: enjoyable, over-the-top sharky schlock
By Anton Bitel
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Evil Dead Rise: an intensely gory instalment of the cult horror franchise
By Anton Bitel
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The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Perpetrator: this feminist flick puts the gory in allegory
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Connect: a grisly offering from Takashi Miike that feels like the work of a modern-day media Frankenstein
By Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great films set outside our solar system
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
The Menu: a tense tale of slow-cooked revenge
By Anton Bitel
Lists
A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now
By Anton Bitel, Michael Blyth and others
10 great
10 great zombie films
By Anton Bitel