Anton Bitel

The London Korean Film Festival (2-16 Nov) is bookended by Kim Mi-jo's family revenger THE JOURNEY TO GYEONG-JU and Park Hoon-jung's astonishing noir actioner TRISTES TROPIQUES. My Cinema Now programme includes domesticity & the diaspora, misfits & metacinema. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/london-korea...

"This ground-level alien invasion film is Spielberg’s second holocaust survival feature, slyly subverting post-9/11 politics": WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) screens 7pm today at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/02/23/w...

"figures unwanted pregnancy as alien invasion": Sean Wallace & Jordan Mark Windsor (aka THUNDERLIPS)'s hilariously banalised NZ sci-fi comedy MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT (2026) is on US digital and on demand from today via XYZ Films. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/24/m...

"Zach Passero’s affectionate Eighties-inflected animated monster movie lets teen rites of passage camp alongside adult ritual": THE WEIRD KIDZ (2022) is on US VOD from today via Antenna Releasing. projectedfigures.com/2022/10/15/t...

Face business, falling down: George A. Romero’s dark, violent satire BRUISER (2000) "asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id". Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from today via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/b...

The Netherlands' biggest and best genre festival, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, runs in Amsterdam from 29 October till 8th November. Here is a taster of what to expect. projectedfigures.com/2026/10/26/i...

"sets inmates against each other and themselves in a horror-comedy microcosm of systemic corruption in Indonesian society": Joko Anwar’s prison/genre punch-up GHOST IN THE CELL (2026) on UK digital from today via Blue Finch Film Releasing. Review for SciFiNow www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/ghos...

"captures its arrested characters in an uncanny alternative office space where the shadow self runs free": Kane Parsons' effectively creepy feature debut BACKROOMS (2026) is now on HBO Max UK. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/05/29/b...

Sade's grand work of power, corruption and depravity translates uneasily into Pier Paolo Pasolini's parable of fascist Italy SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975), on 4K UHD from today via BFI - and also into our current dispensation of affluence and Epstein... projectedfigures.com/2017/11/26/f...

"pits a traumatised content moderator against a serial killer restaging scenes from a film": Daniel Goldhaber's meta remake FACES OF DEATH (2006) is on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD and digital HD (Amazon Prime Video) via Signature Entertainment. Review for SciFiNow www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/face...

Once upon a time in a cabin in the woods: Sam Raimi's gory, funny, crazy THE EVIL DEAD (1981) screens 9.15pm tonight at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2019/03/10/t...

Life’s shit: in Gregory Morin's comic, claustrophobic single-location feature debut FLUSH (2025), "a would-be family man at a moral crossroads sees everything go down the drain." Screens 7.45pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2025/07/30/f...

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." Screens 7.30pm today at Celluloid Screams, with director's intro + Q&A. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/trau...

Community’s id in the sewer: Juan Piquer Simón’s immense nature's revenger SLUGS (1988) screens 5.45pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2017/11/23/s...

"smalltown cops and hunters chasing, and chased by, aggressive intruders along the Korean border": Na Hong-jin’s barrelling blockbuster HOPE (2026) screens 4.15pm today at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/26/h...

"pits amateur Yorkshire ghostbusters against spirits both fake and real": Ashley Nashville’s debut feature HERALDRY PARANORMAL (2026). Screens 2.50pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/30/h...

A tale of two sisters: in Dave Boyle’s ghostbusting murder mystery NEVER AFTER DARK (2026), ultimately "cinema is the medium that transgresses the boundary between life and death." Screens 1.30pm today at Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/14/n...

"sends an ambitious sound recordist into a crabby old sea yarn": Jake Kuhn & Noah Stratton-Twine’s hilariously camp moviemaking throwback THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT 92026) screens 10.35am today at Dead And SudBuried. Imagine Guy Maddin helming PotC. Love this. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/14/t...

Jail break!: Daniel Turres’ straight-but-funny slasher FRESH MEAT (2025) lets "influencers and urban explorers release an old-school Eighties killing machine". Screens 9.20pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/f...

Mean girls and monsters: Jack and Yossy Zagha’s class-conscious high-school comedy horror FIFTEEN (QUINCE, 2026) "figures adolescence as a demon gestating within." UK première 7.15pm today at Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/16/f...

"Putting a fist up America’s hidden dynastic structures and pulling them inside out so that the terrible things underneath are revealed for all to see," Brian Yuzna's class satire cum body horror SOCIETY (1989) screens 7.15pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2015/06/08/s...

"restages a killing spree – and slasher tropes – as reflexive metatheatre": Michele Soavi’s feature debut STAGE FRIGHT (1987) screens 7pm today at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2022/12/25/s...

Maternal predators: Ángel Gómez Hernández’s arachnophobic siege horror CRAWLERS (2026) "locks Santa Monica tenants in a building infested with deadly spiders." Screens 4.30pm today at Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/10/10/c...

"imagines a violent viral uprising of the very young against their adult ‘betters’": the new 4K restoration of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s confronting ‘creepy kid’ horror WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) screens 4.30pm today at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. Superb! projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/c...

"Sam Raimi returns to his roots in this hyperbolic horror comedy where a banker for once gets just deserts": DRAG ME TO HELL (2009) screens 2.30pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2020/08/15/d...

"traps a trainee doctor down the rabbit hole of an old couple’s farmhouse": James Owen’s surreal domestic thriller HOARDER (2026) screens 12.35pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/h...

"uses a small town to stage the polarisations dividing America from its own humanity": Larry Fessenden introduces live his own werewolf allegory BLACKOUT (2023), 11.30am today at Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2023/07/20/b...

"merges romantic comedy and horror into a monstrous Swedish seasonal saga": Gabrielle Christensen’s hybrid debut feature MOUNTAIN KING (2025) had its East Coast première at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2026/10/24/m...

"sibling rivalry, mother-daughter conflict, myth and madness all find expression in dark art(s)": Marta Giec’s oneiric modern Polish folktale ÒPI (2026) had its international première at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/10/23/o...

Heady healing: Kristina Klebe's NOXTURNE (2026) "offers a psychological portrait of an ageing artist forced by an accident into stasis, and unhappy in her reflection". Screens 8pm tonight at LA Femme Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2026/05/15/n...

"brings anarchy, irrationality and apocalypse to a grieving sheriff in a small-town microcosm of the American nightmare": Toby Poser & John Adams' enrapturing THE GLORIOUS DEAD screens 8pm with Q&A at Celluloid Screams. Review for SciFiNow Magazine www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...

Out of left field: Jethro Waters’ GUNFIGHTER PARADISE (2025) "sets a grieving man’s homecoming amid a singularly American mix of guns and God." Screens 7pm today (with Q&A) at UNC Asheville. A true original, highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/06/g...

"Maybe a bit too good. Too clean, yes, too precise. Too… formal. It should be more trashy": Dario Argento's artful hall of mirrors DEEP RED (1975) may be giallo, but comes painted in many colours. Screens 7pm tonight at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/d...

"turns a couple’s grief and trauma into a demonic rite of passage": Annabella Rich’s ‘cult’ feature debut THE DEATH OF US (2026) screens 5.45pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/29/t...

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". Screens 4.45pm today at Celluloid Screams with Q&A. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/06/t...

"As the twist-heavy narrative bends us this way and that, it also confronts us with our own errant desires": Richard Franklin's 'sequal' PSYCHO II (1983) screens 2.30pm today at Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2018/02/16/p...

"updated, psychologised take on Stoker finds a predatory subtext lurking in the shadows of myth": Chris Schwab's DRACULA: THE NIGHT AROUND US (2026) screens 12.50pm today at Dead And SudBuried. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/drac...

Millennial man, fractured: Larry Fessenden's Frankenstein-riffing DEPRAVED (2019) screens 11am today at Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival, introduced by the man himself. projectedfigures.com/2019/03/21/d...

That sinking feeling: Matt Stuertz’s metacinematic psychodrama HUMAN (2025) is “a long dark night of the soul that will make you 😂, 🤮 and 😮”. Also, rocks ARE cool. In Select US theatres and on VOD/digital from today via Dark Sky Films. projectedfigures.com/2025/08/22/h...

(c)ad-man: CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN (2024), Justin (RIP) and Dominic Hardy’s documentary (co-directed with Chris Nunn) on their filmmaking father, “sets the art against the artist”. In UK cinemas from today via Unannounced Films/Exposure. projectedfigures.com/2024/08/23/c...

Fan(tasy)boy: Steve Pink’s SF-inflected twisty tragedy TERRESTRIAL (2026) "sees old friends reunited with an unbelievably successful genre novelist". In US theatres from today via Aero Films. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/08/28/t...

"uses two horror subgenres to modulate a cowgirl’s quest for her right(eous) place in a male world": Emma Benestan’s bullish feature ANIMALE (2024) is on Film Movement+ from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/09/24/a...

Song of innocence and experience: POETRY (2010), Lee Chang-dong's unforgettable film about forgetting, on Film Movement+ from today. projectedfigures.com/2015/09/09/p...

"figures unwanted pregnancy as alien invasion": Sean Wallace & Jordan Mark Windsor (aka THUNDERLIPS)'s hilariously banalised NZ sci-fi comedy MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT (2026) screens 10.45pm at Dead And SudBuried and 11.55pm at Celluloid Screams projectedfigures.com/2026/01/24/m...

Haute-couture whodunnit: in Mario Bava's ur-giallo BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) the "focus always remains on the dreamy mood and elegant design that create so many fashion victims". Screens 9pm tonight at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2015/03/06/g...

"Darkly funny horror about a town that cannot keep its secrets buried": Gary Sherman's DEAD & BURIED (1981) screens 8.35pm tonight at its natural home, Dead And SudBuried. projectedfigures.com/2020/02/03/d...

"sends four young partygoers into an unhinged underworld of paranoid dealers, vicious fathers and unloved sons": Nick Kozakis’ hyperviolent tragic thriller KICK ON (2026) closes Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 6.30pm tonight. projectedfigures.com/2026/09/20/k...

"places an amnesiac man in an infernal loop against a terrifying creature": Stewart Sparke’s gamified SF/horror DEAD RESET (2026) screens 6pm this evening (+ Q&A) at Dead And SudBuried. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/dead...

Crime and punishment: Nobuo Nakagawa's kaleidoscopic katabasis JIGOKU (1960) "shows a metaphorical hell on earth, and a stylised one below, while glimpsing redemption." New 4K restoration screens 10pm tonight at American Cinematheque. Extraordinary film. projectedfigures.com/2015/02/13/j...