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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 3m

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...

Blood Shine (2025) Review | FrightFest

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 8m

"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...

Theater is Dead (2025) - Projected Figures

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 10m

"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...

CAMP (2025) - Projected Figures

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 12m

"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...

Crushed (2025) - Projected Figures

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 15m

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...

Dolly (2025) - Projected Figures

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 22m

"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...

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

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 26m

"a reemergent musical superstar initiates a young journalist in how to play the media game": Mark Anthony Green’s cult thriller OPUS (2025) screens 5pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social
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Opus (2025) - Projected Figures

In Mark Anthony Green’s cult thriller OPUS, a reemergent musical superstar initiates a young journalist in how to play the media game

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 52m

Robert Wynne-Simmons' pioneering THE OUTCASTS (1971) screens 4.30pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Here's something I wrote for the BFI on Irish horror. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

10 great Irish horror films

With landmark Irish horror film The Outcasts now available on BFI Player, we choose 10 more tales of fear and folklore from the Emerald Isle.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 55m

"a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form": Ben Wheatley's self-making, self-referential BULK shows the workings of its fractured DIY worlds. Screens 3.30pm at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Bulk review: Ben Wheatley’s mercurial multiverse

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 · 58m

"in this exploitative microscosm of America, both capitalism and patriarchy are the real curse": Annapurna Sriram's gonzo allegory FUCKTOYS (2025) is Anora's punkier, self-consciously trashier sister. Re-screens 12.20pm at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/10/f...

Fucktoys (2025) - Projected Figures

Annapurna Sriram's trashily punkish feature debut FUCKTOYS finds little room for romance in its allegory of class, capital and the sexes

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1h

“modern independent women falling prey to the inveterate models of patriarchy”: John Berardo’s tale of two sisters THE MANNEQUIN (2025) is on digital, Blu-ray and DVD from today via Jackrabbit Media projectedfigures.com/2025/08/24/t...

The Mannequin (2025) - Projected Figures

John Berardo's tale of two sisters THE MANNEQUIN finds modern independent women falling prey to the inveterate models of patriarchy

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1h

"four chained captives have their guilt triggered and sorely tested by an unhinged game show host": DW Medoff’s ‘torture porn’ revival YOUR HOST (2025) is on US/global VOD from today via Benacus Entertainment and RNF Productions. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/your...

Your Host (2025) Review | FrightFest

In DW Medoff's 'torture porn' revival, four chained captives have their guilt triggered and sorely tested by an unhinged game show host.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1h

"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 11am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

Honey Bunch (2025) - Projected Figures

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1h

"here genre is polished like a perfect, glistening diamond, and distilled to a chaotic, quixotic dream of desire and death": Cattet & Forzani's superlative superspy superspectacle REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, 10.30am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/20/r...

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

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

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1h

"All at once nightmarish cannibal horror and romantic comedy, good-natured fairytale, and hyper-stylised allegory of French wartime collaboration and resistance": Caro & Jeunet's DELICATESSEN (1991) screens 10.15am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social
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The smiling Louison (Dominique Pinon) with a meat cleaver through his head (on a plate) in Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's DELICATESSEN (1991)

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 11h

Four characters in search of a narrative form: Ben Wheatley's mind-blowing multidimensional marvel BULK (2025) screens 9.15pm at @sxswsydney.com. This DIY 'reality quake' is one for all you cinematic psychonauts. Review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Bulk review: Ben Wheatley’s mercurial multiverse

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.

www.bfi.org.uk

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 11h

A dog, a malicious entity, and a cabin in the woods: Ben Leonberg's canine-focalised ghost story GOOD BOY "offers us cinephilia for cynophiles, and an unusual way of looking at the processes of passing". Screens 00:45 tonight at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/09/g...

Good Boy (2025) - Projected Figures

In Ben Leonberg's spooky, sad slice of cynophilia GOOD BOY, a haunted cabin in the woods accommodates dogs and death

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 11h

FRANKENSTEIN Q&A

far left Emerald Fennell moderates; front row from left: director Guillermo del Toro, cast Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth; rear row sfx/model maker (missed his name, maybe Chris Cooper?), costume designer Kate Hawley, composer Alexandre Desplat

Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi

front row from left: Mia Goth, Christoph Walz, Felix Kammerer; rear row from left: costume designer Kate Hawley, composer Alexandre Desplat, production designer Tamara Deverell

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 16h

whoops, I’m in London

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 18h

“This film’s not for everyone” = “This is a film”

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 18h

I’m method acting right now. It’s the only way I can pass off being vaguely normal outside of my home.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 1d

These people are all going to Hell

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Giles for You @gilesforyou.bsky.social · 21h

An excellent choice.
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FANTASIA 2025: APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: REFLECTIONS IN A DEAD DIAMOND (2025)

Reflet dans un diamant mort 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani FEATURING: Yannick Renier, Céline Camara, Fabi…

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

"confines a young girl to a garage with a desperate, disturbed and dangerous man outside": Steven J. Mihaljevich’s Christmas home invasion thriller SHED (2025) has just had its world première at @screamfest.bsky.social
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Shed (2025) - Projected Figures

Steven J. Mihaljevich's Christmas home invasion thriller SHED confines a young girl to a garage with a murderous man outside

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

I don't often say this, but *if* you can somehow catch it on a big screen, you will be amply rewarded.

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