Monthly Archives: August 2022

Little Movie Secrets

(little movie secrets) The Antenna(2019) is a political allegory disguised as horror!

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I must admit I did not know a lot about Turkish horror movies prior to watching fantastic Baskin(2015) which I still remember with awe and shudder how disturbing and great it is.

So, I was eager to see what Antenna is all about. The movie revolves around one building and its janitor Mehmet. He is a bit simple, yet good natured man, but problems become serious when a man who was designated to install new sattelite antenna fell down to his death and there is something wrong in the building. Black tar oozes from the walls and into people, making them do strange things and murders. As the movie goes, we find out that the people live in a autocratic society and at midnight hour new kind of technology, which will ban and destroy all different opinion, same sex marriages, freedom thoughts will take place as stated by the dictator in special midnight bulletins. As evil takes people in the building one by one, they become faceless eerie walking individuals who replace the living.

This movie is something visually fantastic, eerie and totally beautiful, yet disturbing at the same time. Director/writer Orcun Behram did a superb job in criticizing Turkish reality and its sinking to totalitarian regime with regime controlling free media, different opinions, any kind of political opposition, freedom. In that faceless creepy doppelgangers I understood that Behram saw real people who become faceless and soulless puppets of the regime, tabula rasa with no real heart and soul and mind. This is a very bleak picture of political reality disguised as eerie horror which looks visually great and is written fantastic. My recommendation.

10/10

Reviews

(review) Al-Namrood – Worship The Degenerate

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Al-Namrood are hailing from land not known for the appreciation of extreme music, namely Saudi Arabia. These guys have been in the scene since 2008 and this is their brand new e.p. containing 6 songs of thrash metal influenced black/death with many oriental music folk parts thrown in the song structures thus bringing a superb vibe of desert, relentless nature, ancient times and demons. Songs are in English language so my personal favorites are Guerillas and Sun of Liberation. Vocals dwell more in the black metal oriented screaming, with guitars and drums at times delivering real groove metal parts besides already natural blast beats and fast thrash metal drumming. I listen to this band for couple of years now and I am fascinated how good they sound and how mighty their message is, also music is something that can cross any border, any so called state and hierarchy, connect true underground creatures into a network. Good one.

8/10

tv series

(tv series) The Boys season 3 is a bit less than first two, but still rocks!

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Couple of years ago, my friend told me go watch The Boys, you will love it! Knowing my affinities my friend rightfully deduced that I will become massive fan of that series. We are all used to the world where superheroes are troubled but good, with burden of the world lying on their shoulders. But, The Boys, based on comic by Garth Ennis, brought something entirely different in the picture. Theirs is the world where they are employees and practically slaves of the media corporation, led by Homelander, hero with blonde hair, nice look, but psychopatic lunatic killer maniac all the same. In this third season, after all the events with Stormfront and other villains, our heroes Hughie, Billy The Butcher, Starlight, Frenchie and Mother´s Milk try to get ahold of Soldier Boy(newly arrived to the series – none other than Jensen Ackles of Supernatural fame), who was frozen by the Soviets decades ago because Soldier Boy only has weapon how to kill Homelander and stop his madness. As it goes, there are couple of sub story lines and I can not write much about the story, because I will spoil it to you. If you want black humor, gore, blood, guts, nudity, profanity, above all superb screenplay and story than all three seasons are just right for ya.

This third season was a bit weaker than the first two, but sweet journey nonetheless.

8/10