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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 10h

In a late-night rant on TruthSocial, Trump may, hilariously, have complained about this photograph's unflattering if honest presentation of his combover - but there is another detail in the framing of his face that I like even more...

A low-angle photo of Trump on the cover of Time, with the 'M' in the magazine's title appearing behind the top of Trump's head like devil's horns.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 11h

ha, cheers.

Blood Shine (2025) Review | FrightFest

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12h

you can see where it's going...
A very creepy film.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12h

Here comes the sun: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks’ superb reflexive folk horror BLOOD SHINE (2025) “turns suffering and sacrifice into a cult movie”. Re-screens 11.45pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bloo...

Here comes the sun: Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks' reflexive folk horror turns suffering and sacrifice into a cult movie

Man Finds Tape (2025) - Projected Figures

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12h

"a community’s unwitting complicity and cover-up lets something Lovecraftian in to feed": @peterhallhuman.bsky.social & @paulgandersman.bsky.social’s found footage MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) screens 9.45pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/06/09/m...

In Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman’s found footage, a community’s unwitting complicity and cover-up lets something Lovecraftian in to feed

The Vile (Hoba) (2025) - Projected Figures

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12h

"allegorises the travails of patriarchy and polygamy across female generations": Majid Al Ansari’s Abu Dhabi-set domestic horror THE VILE (HOBA, 2025) screens 9pm tonight at the @princecharlescinema.com for BFI London Film Festival #LFF projectedfigures.com/2025/09/21/t...

Majid Al Ansari's Abu Dhabi-set domestic horror THE VILE allegorises the travails of patriarchy and polygamy across female generations

Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort) (2025) - Projected Figures

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12h

"here genre is polished like a perfect, glistening diamond, and distilled to a chaotic, quixotic dream of desire and death": Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's superlative superspy superspectacle REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (2025) rescreens 8.50pm tonight for #LFF projectedfigures.com/2025/03/20/r...

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's kaleidoscopic mystery REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND dreams up the Eurospy genre as hallucinatory half-memory

Mother of Flies (2025) review at Fantasia: A haunting mystery

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

Sympathetic magic: @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social's
witchy tale of loss, death and faith (healing) MOTHER OF FLIES (2025) screens 5.45pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. Essential! www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/moth...

Sympathetic magic: the Adams-Poser family’s witchy tale of loss, death and faith healing makes the woods a timeless zone of mystery and miracle. Our review of Mother of Flies from Fantasia...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

"an ageing assassin struggling to determine how she wants to go out": Min Kyu-dong’s vigilante action thriller THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE (2025) screens 3.15pm today at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/13/t...

Medium close-up: with blood trickling from her forehead, old Hornclaw (Lee Hye-yeong) drives her car determinedly in the dark

The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan (2025) - Projected Figures

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

"places the late outsider filmmaker centre stage, reconstructing the life of an artist always on the edge": Josh & Grayson Tyler Johnson’s doc THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN (2025) screens 2.30pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/06/12/d...

Josh Johnson & Grayson Tyler Johnson's doc THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN places an outsider filmmaker centre stage

A Grand Mockery (2024) at Fantasia 2025 - Projected Figures

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s unravelling 8mm odyssey/oddity A GRAND MOCKERY (2024) is "a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man". Screens 1pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/07/21/a...

The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s 8mm odyssey A GRAND MOCKERY is a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man

Dead Lover (2024) - Projected Figures

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

"reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding": DEAD LOVER (2024), Grace Glowicki’s camply mannered comic take on the Frankenstein myth, screens 9.30pm tonight at @sxswsydney.com projectedfigures.com/2025/02/02/d...

Grace Glowicki's mannered comic take on Frankenstein DEAD LOVER reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding

Bulk review: Ben Wheatley’s mercurial multiverse

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

Four characters in search of a narrative form: Ben Wheatley's mind-blowing multidimensional DIY 'reality quake' BULK (2025) screens 8.15am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. This is one for all you cinematic psychonauts. Review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The British director returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 13h

"gradually brings its characters home from endless, empty vendetta": Kevin and Matt McManus’ universe-leaping repeat revenger REDUX REDUX (2025) screens 8.15am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/09/r...

Redux Redux (2025) - Projected Figures

Kevin and Matthew McManus' universe-leaping repeat revenger REDUX REDUX gradually brings its characters home from endless, empty vendetta

Honey Bunch (2025) - Projected Figures

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 22h

"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) re-screens 00:45 tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social and 3.30pm at @sxswsydney.com projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

In Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli's genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH, a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic

The Home (2025) Review | FrightFest

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

I'm just glad to see the frog being reclaimed by the left.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

“opens a young man’s eyes to the needs of the elderly”: James DeMonaco’s care facility-set horror mystery THE HOME (2025) screens 10.30pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...

James DeMonaco's care facility-set horror mystery opens a young man's eyes to the needs of the elderly.

Blood Shine (2025) Review | FrightFest

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

Here comes the sun: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks’ superb reflexive folk horror BLOOD SHINE (2025) “turns suffering and sacrifice into a cult movie”. Screens 9.45pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bloo...

Here comes the sun: Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks' reflexive folk horror turns suffering and sacrifice into a cult movie

Theater is Dead (2025) - Projected Figures

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

"stages a modern metatheatrical myth of Mephistopheles, menstruation and #MeToo": Katherine Dudas’ camp horror comedy THEATER IS DEAD (2025) screens 9.30pm tonight at @screamfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/09/23/t...

Katherine Dudas’ camp horror comedy THEATER IS DEAD stages a modern metatheatrical myth of Mephistopheles, menstruation and #MeToo.

CAMP (2025) - Projected Figures

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

"follows a dreamy, dissociative journey through the cycles of trauma and recovery": Avalon Fast’s witch-inflected woman’s picture CAMP (2025) screens 9pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/09/24/c...

Avalon Fast's witch-inflected woman's picture CAMP follows a dreamy, dissociative journey through the cycles of trauma and recovery

Crushed (2025) - Projected Figures

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

"faith tested, forgiveness abandoned, revenge misdirected – and the business of exploitation images exposed": Simon Rumley's dispiriting drama CRUSHED (2025) re-screens 8.30pm tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2025/08/17/c...

Simon Rumley's dispiriting drama CRUSHED shows faith tested, forgiveness abandoned, revenge misdirected - and the business of images exposed

Dolly (2025) - Projected Figures

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

Doll’s house in the woods: @rodblackhurst.bsky.social’s traumatic horror DOLLY (2025) is "an adult fairytale of masks, madness and the maternal urge". Screens 7.15pm today at @screamfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/09/22/d...

Doll's house in the woods: Rod Blackhurst’s traumatic horror DOLLY is an adult fairytale of masks, madness and the maternal urge

Influencers (2025) review at Fantasia: Murderous hunting trips in foreign lands

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

"A Ripley - and a Ripper - for the digital age": Kurtis David Harder's serial-killing cyberthriller sequel INFLUENCERS (2025) "pits a chameleonic psychopath against a surviving victim." 7pm today at @screamfest.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/infl...

Kurtis David Harder's serial-killing cyberthriller sequel pits a chameleonic psychopath against a surviving victim in a digital world.