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Anton Bitel

@antbit.projectedfigures.com

Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope. The #Horror, the #Horror Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival. London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society. ProjectedFigures.com

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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

04.08.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2207    ๐Ÿ” 897    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
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Over The Edge (1979) - Projected Figures Jonathan Kaplan's rites-of-passage drama OVER THE EDGE is an allegory of an America under construction, and on a road to nowhere

Sad to hear about Jonathan Kaplan's death. Here is my review of his rites-of-passage drama OVER THE EDGE (1979), "an allegory of an America under construction, and on a road to nowhere" projectedfigures.com/2022/05/15/o...

04.08.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hope it goes well!

04.08.2025 12:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi, Domani) (1963) - Projected Figures Acclaimed neo-realist director Vittorio De Sica brings tart comedy to this triptych of strong women and rigid class structures.

"Acclaimed neo-realist director Vittorio De Sica brings tart comedy to this triptych of strong women and rigid class structures": YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (IERI, OGGI, DOMANI, 1963). Screens 6pm NFT1, BFI Southbank, intro'd by @christinalefou.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/07/13/y...

04.08.2025 07:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Year 10 (2024) - Projected Figures Benjamin Goodger's post-apocalyptic survival thriller YEAR 10 sets a young man's coming of age amid inhuman brutality and cannibalism

โ€œsets a young manโ€™s rites of passage amid inhuman brutality and cannibalismโ€: Benjamin Goodgerโ€™s post-apocalyptic survival thriller YEAR 10 (2024) is on digital from today via Reel2Reel Films projectedfigures.com/2024/08/24/y...

04.08.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beyond the bounds: identity, adolescence & ethics at LFF Cult 2018 - Projected Figures LFF Cult 2018: The Cannibal Club, Lords Of Chaos, May The Devil Take You, Cam, The Night Shifter, Knife + Heart, School's Out, All The Gods In The Sky

"familiar narrative trajectories of escape and revenge transform themselves into a difficult, deluded modern fairytale": Quarxx's ALL THE GODS IN THE SKY (TOUS LES DIEUX DU CIEL, 2018) is on @shudder.com UK from today projectedfigures.com/2019/03/31/b...

04.08.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it need not even be personal - just the creeping elimination of anyone and anything - which is nearly everyone and everything - that makes Trump look bad by comparison

03.08.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have not seen that one

03.08.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Climax?
Suspiria remake?
The Brazen?
Swimming Home?

03.08.2025 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Title page of my booklet essay (โ€œDeath By Numbersโ€), with an image, page left, of Clint Eastwoodโ€™s Blondie in medium close-up, his face framed by a noose

Title page of my booklet essay (โ€œDeath By Numbersโ€), with an image, page left, of Clint Eastwoodโ€™s Blondie in medium close-up, his face framed by a noose

โ€œDeath by Numbersโ€: honoured to have contributed a booklet essay to @arrowvideo.bsky.socialโ€™s 4K UHD/Blu-ray release of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966), accounting for triangularity, dualism and infinity in Sergio Leoneโ€™s Civil War oater

03.08.2025 08:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine wilfully erasing all established memory of JFK, while actively elevating RFK Jr. The decline of America in a nutshell.

03.08.2025 07:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Touch Me (2025) - Projected Figures Addison Heimann's sort-of sex comedy sci-fi TOUCH ME is an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism & tentacular trauma

"sets its protagonist on a difficult, damaging path to recovery, while also leaving us wondering what, beneath all its alien allegory, has really happened and who has been left behind": Addison Heimann's TOUCH ME re-screens 2.05pm at @fantasiafestival.com projectedfigures.com/2025/01/29/t...

03.08.2025 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Open Wide (2025) - Projected Figures Say aaaaargh!: in Sam Foxโ€™s freaky, funny horror short OPEN WIDE, a young woman gets into a threesome with the wrongest of wrong couples

Say aaaaargh!: in Sam Foxโ€™s freaky, funny horror short OPEN WIDE (2025), "a young woman gets into a threesome with the wrongest of wrong couples". Screens 4.30pm today in the Celluloid Experiments strand at @fantasiafestival.com projectedfigures.com/2025/06/19/o...

03.08.2025 06:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Whitch (2025) - Projected Figures Hoku Uchiyama's short film WHITCH is a horror comedy of errors in which there is more than one rite way to express empowered womanhood

"a horror comedy of errors in which there is more than one rite way to express empowered womanhood": @hokuami.bsky.socialโ€™s short film WHITCH (2025) screens 9.30pm tonight at @fantasiafestival.com projectedfigures.com/2025/03/27/w...

02.08.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Touch Me (2025) - Projected Figures Addison Heimann's sort-of sex comedy sci-fi TOUCH ME is an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism & tentacular trauma

"Addison Heimannโ€™s sort-of sex comedy sci-fi is an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism and tentacular trauma": TOUCH ME (2025) screens 7.05pm today at @fantasiafestival.com projectedfigures.com/2025/01/29/t...

02.08.2025 08:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"an Iranian teenager struggling with her own (id)entity clash while coming of age in Canada": Ava Maria Safaiโ€™s genre-blurring horror FOREIGNER (2025) re-screens 2.20pm today at
@fantasiafestival.com. Review for
@scifinow.bsky.social
www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/fore...

02.08.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We Are Still Here (2015) - Projected Figures In Ted Geoghehan's Fulcian haunted house movie WE ARE STILL HERE, a family's sense of grief aligns with a community's trauma.

"a familyโ€™s sense of grief aligns with a communityโ€™s trauma": @tedgeoghegan.bsky.socialโ€™s Fulcian haunted house movie WE ARE STILL HERE (2015) released today on a 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray via @darkskyfilms.bsky.social
projectedfigures.com/2015/09/18/w...

01.08.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Talk about a throwback! Thanks Anton. Both #WOLFCOP movies are now streaming on @shudder.com. #ARROOO ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ‘ฎ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

01.08.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that's your mystique right there!

01.08.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

no antidisestablishmentarianist without shit

01.08.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you don't brood besides gargoyles? I recommend it

01.08.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

of course I can't discuss my vigilante work in this space

01.08.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nobody can pin us down, because our identity is so elusive

01.08.2025 12:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you are an enigma, Gar

01.08.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

no one in the community seems to mind - but it *is* a very central part of the community

01.08.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

no inflection without infection

01.08.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

no sceptic without septic

01.08.2025 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I do appreciate industrial and noise, and pretty much every type of horror (although I am a slasher sceptic)

01.08.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's almost 11am here (UK)

01.08.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have always loved horror, but never been a metal fan. That is the full extent of my contradictoriness and complexity as a person.

01.08.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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