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(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

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(little movie secrets) 7 Nights of Darkness(2011) – found footage, a bit deja vu!

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Tagline for this movie says Blair Witch meets The Ring. Hmmm, I love found footage horror movies and as I watched this one for the first time, about ten years ago when it came out, I was left with the spooky feeling and loved it. Now, ten years later, it was about time to watch it again.

On April 30, 2010, six reality television show contestants spent seven nights in an abandoned and haunted asylum. The show never aired but an editor for the network was able to piece together some footage. The prize for staying all seven nights was a share of one million dollars that was to be split amongst any contestants that didn’t leave. No money prize was ever collected…

That is the story of this movie. Back to tagline. I don´t know why The Ring is stated, because there is absolutely nothing even reminding of that masterpiece. Well, marketing I suppose. Blair Witch is another story. Let us make one thing clear. This is one good found footage horror flick. Classic story, group of contestants/crew/whatever trapped in an abandoned insane asylum and lots of running, screaming, grainy camera work, reality similar horror, couple of really great situations and scenes, that little girl dancing still gives me creeps like ten years ago when I watched it for the first time. Well, there are couple of ideas taken straight from Blair Witch, like friends voices calling from the depths of the building, remember Josh calling in Blair Witch, he he? Also, remember when Mike stood with his back turned to Heather in that unforgettable Blair finale? Well, similar idea is also here. But, movie is good and recommended to all fans of the genre. Maybe it went a bit under the radar, but that is why this is such great opportunity to recommend it. Acting is okay, a bit irritating at times with screaming too loud and hysteric, but it is a decent overlooked movie.

7/10