Gotta love Italian movies, especially their eighties horror movies. This time, Franco Prosperi´s Wild Beasts seemed like a right choice for a Thursday evening. The premise is fantastic: due to chemical spillage, all animals in I think that it is Munich go crazy and start rampaging around city, killing and destroying, only professor Berner, detective Braun and scientist Laura can think of a way to stop this madness.
What is fun about this movie is English dubbing, I love how they dubbed those Italian giallo and cattiva movies, with English being English, but somehow foreign and different than other movies. Also, this one was incredible fun to watch because all of the killings done by animals is so gory and at the same time funny and idiotic. From rats eating up young couple who make out in car, tigers eating zookeepers to epic and incredible cheetah chasing VW beetle car and not giving up until car explodes. Characters are so idiotic, from the looks to written text that you somehow start to think you watch a parody of an animal attack horror subgenre. I loved this horror subgenre since I was a kid, but somehow I rarely fall for such movie anymore. The ending of the movie is somehow surreal and kinda left me in thinking what went on and left space for sequel which never happened fortunately or not.
3/10(this mark is only that big because of funny killings)
Hey, time for another Croatian band from my home scene to grace the pages of this zine. Kriva Istina are band originally from Slavonski Brod, but are based in Zagreb. Their last album from couple of years ago is one of the best albums this scene had to offer in last twenty years as long as I remember. I was eager to wait what will they do next. There were couple of line-up changes, they got new bass player and added another second guitar to the line-up which made the band even more powerful. This new e.p. is conceived as first chapter which describes situation in our country and world and will eventually be added to full length album at least that is how I understood the plan. There are four songs on this one. What I love about this band is that they sing in Croatian language and lyrics are so smartly and great written, that it is a pleasure to read them along with the music. Kriva Istina play melodic hardcore punk with lyrics themed in some of the wrongs that are happening right now, and themes in our country are neverending with so much injustice, thievery, primitivism being at front of media and people right now. The songs themselves are kind of continuation where the last album left off, with Pitanje being my personal favorite but all of the songs I listened to over and over again. Hod u propast is also superb song and I love every single minute of this e.p. I saw them play live couple of years ago in Slovenia at Tepih na paleti festival and would love to see soon how the new line-up sounds and how these new songs sound live, I am sure they are awesome. This is a strong release by this great band.
I always loved street core, since I was a little hardcore kid growing up, with all those great hardcore bands coming out leaning more on street punk than on metal in their hardcore cookbooks hehe. This is one of such bands. No Restraints are based in Vercelli, north west Italy and they are relatively new band in the scene with this full length album and it contains 12 songs of excellent street hardcore punk based and leaning heavily on OI/street punk and I am amazed that every song on this record is basically an anthem that makes you full with hardcore energy and strength, makes you sing along and listen to it over and over again. Songs such as Streetcore Worldwide, The Flame Still Burns or They Will Never Get Us are sure to become instant classics. Musically this band reminds me of best Agnostic Front, Warzone, Discipline works but they remain also fresh and ready for this new century and decade. Vocals are angry, more of hardcore shouted but fit perfectly to the music and there are plenty of backing and gang vocals to sing along. Lyrics deal with surviving, battling your enemy, loving your friends, unity and all hardcore themes I still love so much. I enjoy every single minute of this record. Excellent!
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