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