Category Archives: movie

movie

(movie) Anti-Nowhere League:We Are The League(2018) shows story behind UK’s legendary punk band

Leave a comment

I was never a fan of that 77 and old school UK punk rock, but this band is something special. It was always a feeling in me that these bastards did not belong anywhere, not even in punk clichees, yet they embraced punk as a meaning of their music expression. This documentary shows linear history of these guys, with interviews and words of wisdom by the man himself singer Animal, the only original member in current line-up, but also original guitarist Magoo, bass player Winston and drummer PJ with help of many scene contemporaries and friends like Rat Scabies of The Damned or Stewart Copeland from Police. Like in any other docu, this shows partly interviews, partly archive footage and live action, but also reaches to band’s try to be new Duran Duran and that failed pop album, which by the way contains some really great songs in my humble opinion. There is no pathetic, no whining about good old times and stuff like that, this band was never about that, this is inspiring docu which shows you why you are still punk after all these years. Go see this one.

Little Movie Secrets, movie

(little movie secrets) Lake of the Dead(1958) – Norwegian folk horror legend

Leave a comment

Folk horror is so much featured in today’s horror movie scene but this Norwegian jewel has been almost forgotten until recent documentary about folk horror called Woodlands Dark…where I saw this one and immediately got interested. Norwegian horror scene is little but they have solid horror movies like Skjult or Rovdyr falling to my mind almost instantly, but this one has in fact been only Norwegian horror movie for a long time.

The story evolves around eerie haunted lake in the middle of the woods where there is supposedly no bottom and it draws souls to its depths. There is also a story about a crazy man Tore Gravik who killed her sister’s lover and then she and he drowned in this lake, also his screams can be heard every year upon the date of his death. Fast forward to nowadays, group of friends travel to the remote cabin on that lake where Liljan’s brother Werner is about to meet them but he disappeared and his dog was shot in the head. Group shares the story that Tore’s ghost enters people, makes them kill and drown in the lake so the plot thickens and strange things start to happen, Liljan’s boyfriend Braten is killed and they start to wonder has Tore returned from the dead or is it something more sinister but not otherworldly here?

Well, I enjoyed this one very much, although it is black and white, it has that Scandinavian mystery feel and atmosphere with some plot twists that would make modern movies hide in shame. Characters are well written and acting is awesome, so it is a pleasure to watch this one. It also contains a movie scene which was for a long time most famous in Norwegian movie industry, where Liljan throws herself in the lake to drown(not a spoiler). There is also parts of Nordic humor which just fits perfectly in that parts of the movie. I recommend this one as history of folk horror mystery.

movie

(movies) Bodies Bodies Bodies(2022) starts as fun, but could have been so much more

Leave a comment

This started as your usual slasher movie with a group of friends inhabiting big house in the woods, bathing in pool, just having fun and enjoying themselves. Enter Sophie and Bee, gay couple who just arrived and Sophie was absent for a while with drug problems. We can see some tensions between the group, like especially between Sophie and Jordan. Storm rises and our heroes move inside and start to play a game called Bodies bodies bodies, with false murderer killing someone and others have to investigate the case. When their host David gets killed for real, they search for culprit, paranoia and tension, also body count rises….

Well, this one was directed by Halina Reijn, Dutch actress known for starring in Paul Verhoeven´s Black Book, also in Tom Cruise´s Valkyrie among other movies, also written by Sarah DeLappe and it was somewhere, I think it was on Bloody Disgusting page advertised as LGBTQ slasher horror. I don´t see why, because besides some bisexual storylines, besides main two characters being gay, there is absolutely nothing that indicates that. First half of the movie, as killings start it was fun to watch with characterization of protagonists evolving, discovering kept secrets, hatred, envy and other ugly feelings that came to the surface. It was also fun to think for me as a viewer who the killer might be, playing with thoughts although the ending twist is kind of disappointing with let down. I think that they wanted to make something different with this one than your typical slasher movie, but the direction they went could have been so much better explored. But, this is not bad movie indeed. But, could have been so much better.