O’Hellige Jul! or Christmas Cruelty! is brainspawn by Magne Steinsvoll and Per-Ingvar Tomren who co-directed and also starred in this movie, which is in fact a product of couple of friends who decided to make the movie and present it as Norwegian horror movie in a country whose horror scene is not so big, rather small but they provided couple of really exceptional horror movies like Skjult, Rovdyr or legendary Lake of the dead. This is trash gore fantasy in its totality and almost childish made. It is about serial killer called Serial Santa (played by Tormod Lien), who rapes a mother and kills a baby with a saw in the beginning of the movie, later on he goes on rampage on couple of unsuspecting hard rockers, friends who celebrate and are getting drunk. Now, this movie is totally trashy magnificent little jewel only for die hard horror fans, made by horror fans. Killer has no particular reason for killing except flashbacks of his sexual and murder fantasies. Gore and murder scenes are tongue in cheek but enough gory to make your inner bloodhound howl with delight. This movie has neither head nor tails so do not suspect any coherency or something sensible or smart, this is pure trash inspired by christmas spirit hehe. Killer looks good in his mask, I must admit that, but if you are into christmas slashers, rather go watch Black Christmas, or Silent Night, Deadly Night. This one could easily play at Varaždin Trash film festival and be well received there.
Time for Swedish death metal to grace the bloodied pages of this webzine. Omnicidal are hailing from Sweden and this is their debut opus with Non Serviam Records. Although this is their first spawn, members of this band are well known to the scene playing or having played in bands such as Rimfrost, Lake Of Tears, Egonaut and Devilicious. The music of Omnicidal has something just the way I love. Meaning, European school of death metal from early nineties. This means, they deliver a mixture of old school Swedish chainsaw guitar death metal, but to that they add layers of melody, being more into melodic death metal side of things, not unlike all those early Gothenburg death metal bands. If I must compare music of Omnicidal to some other bands it would be a cross between At The Gates and more melodic songs of Dismember. I love how aggression and d-beat tempo songs mix with melancholic guitar hooks and themes, angry, despaired growled vocals, apocalyptic atmosphere and almost a kind of sadness. Lyrically, Omnicide deal with death, Hell, narcissism, fighting your inner self, graveyards and a bit more death. My favorites among these songs are ‘WWD’, ‘Cemetary Scream’ and ‘Narcissistic Abuse’, but the album as a whole is death metal bomb of melody and energy just waiting to be dropped on your metal heads! Excellent!
Kada je izašao Knives Out, bio mi je okej za pogledati, ali mi je smetalo Daniel Craigovo preglumljivanje i prejak južnjački naglasak u ulozi detektiva Benoit Blanca, no kada je objavljeno da će izaći svojevrstan nastavak nisam se začudio s obzirom da je Knives Out bio prilično uspješan i u kinima i na Netflixu. Kao i prvi film, drugi dio odnosno slučaj nazvan Glass Onion ima odličnu glumačku postavu, predvođenu Craigom a tu je i Edward Norton kao i bivši kečer Dave Bautista koji je već napravio respektabilnu glumačku karijeru u mnogim blockbusterima. U ovom filmu Blanc dobije poziv sa još nekoliko muškaraca i žena da dođe na grčki udaljeni otok kao gost Milesa Brona(Edward Norton) kako bi proveli vikend igrajući igru kojom će istraživati fiktivno ubojstvo tog istog gospodina. No, kako stvari bivaju dogodi se stvarno ubojstvo kada Duke Cody(Dave Bautista) popije otrov u Milesovoj čaši što pokrene val otkrića izdaja, motiva, neprijateljstava, zamjerki, prevara, a Blanc i Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe) pokušavaju otkriti tko laže, tko je ubojica i tko je najveće zlo od nazočnih. Kao i prvi film, ovaj također obiluje odličnim dijalozima, twistewima u radnji i interakcijom između glumaca čiji su likovi dobro napisani i drže vodu, da se tako izrazim. Craig briljira i ne ide mi na živce kao u Knives Out, a Edward Norton je također odličan i nosi film kao razmaženi bogataš koji je naviknut da uvijek bude sve po njegovom i ne mari za nikoga osim samog sebe. Ostali likovi su također dobro razrađeni, kao na primjer senator Claire Debella(odlična Kathryn Hahn) ili starleta Birdie(Kate Hudson). Film je također i nekako lijepo napravljen, sjajne su mi boje i sjajni su mi prikazi grčkog otoka i okolice, kao i interijeri Milesove vile Glass Onion u kojoj je kao što ste mogli pretpostaviti većina stvari i umjetnina kao i kupola od stakla. Veselim se trećem nastavku za kojeg vjerujem da će napraviti. Ovo nije nešto što se zauvijek pamti, ali za jednom pogledati je sasvim solidno.
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