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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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(review) Claudio Simonetti´s Goblin – The Murder Collection

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I already wrote about Claudio Simonetti, composer of many horror soundtracks and keyboard player of legendary Italian band Goblin. Simonetti worked with many horror legends like Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi and Claudio´s main band Goblin has many current incarnations so this one made a compilation of greatest horror soundtrack themes and songs that made our black hearts weep tears of bloody joy while listening. This one is not long, it has nine songs and I just can not decide which one works better for me here.

For sure, Suspiria, Zombi, Tenebre, Profondo Rosso are top, but my personal favorite is Phenomena, this is top of all my favorite Italian horror soundtracks, being such contagious and song that has it all, great guitar work, epic main body of melody and just takes you to some other place and time just somehow feeling the darkness and feeling the almost unpenetrable horror and creepyiness through almost joyful melodies that Claudio´s music provides in many themes. I also am in awe how this music borders somewhere between epic joy and darkness mixing those two into one superb song structure thus creating a whirlwind of emotion and able to make goosebumps on your skin.

Reviews, Vaults of Hammer Horror

(Vaults of Hammer Horror) The Curse of Frankenstein(1957)

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Everybody who knows me can testify that Hammer Horror movies are my personal favorite horror subgenre, besides found footage(yes, I am a sucker for them) and eighties golden era slasher movies. Hammer is British movie company which delivered many legendary horror movies and legends like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing starred in many of their movies and delivered some of the unforgettable roles like Dracula, Van Helsing or Dr Frankenstein. The latter is main character in this, first of Hammer Frankenstein series movies.

The movie is loosely based on Mary Shelley´s legendary novel, screenplay by Jimmy Sangster is not so based on the novel, the movie starting with imprisoned Victor Frankenstein who recalls and tells his tale to the priest which visits him in his prison cell.

Frankenstein was always interested in medical experiments and had no real morality values, cheating his fiancee Elizabeth(lovely Hammer alumni Hazel Court) with servant maid Justine(Valerie Gaunt) and conducting various animal experiments with his friend Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart) starting with animals and later evolving into experimenting with corpses of hanged killer and brain of distinguished scientist. They revive an evil creature(Christopher Lee) which wreaks havoc and will change lives of all protagonists forever.

This is one of the top ten Hammer movies I have watched. Everything is done perfect, from character of Victor Frankenstein portrayed by Peter Cushing to evil and chaotic creature portrayed by Christopher Lee, which is so much different than Karloff and the creature which we were used to watch in Frankenstein movies. Maybe movies such as this don´t have much action and carnage, but there is drama, there is good story, great acting and poetic ending which leaves open window for sequels. If you are watching Hammer movies and want to become fan, I recommend this one for a Hammer starter package.

9/10