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(movie) The Devil Below(2021) – nice Lovecraftian vibe little horror!

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Everyone who reads this webzine already know that H.P.Lovecraft is my favorite horror author of all times. I also love works of so called Lovecraftian Circle, meaning writers who were his friends or contemporaries and those who continued his cosmic horror style in their short stories and novels. Well, but I also love horror movies. And I love when it has that Lovecraftian cosmic horror vibe. Well, The Devil Below didn’t disappoint me. The story evolves around group of five explorers with leader Arianne who are looking for town called Shookum Hills which disappeared in the seventies with thousand miners and inhabitants. Legend says that they were digging and drilling hole to Hell like the one in Siberia and then something happened with underground fires burning still to this day. As it usually is, our heroes do not take local people warnings to their brains, find the lost city and then troubles start when they unleash something sinister from under the earth, something set on replacing humanity with other inhabitants. This is action packed sinister horror movie with lots of running, parts of mock found footage parts and nightvision, the only thing that lightly disappointed me was the finale under earth in the caves which was somehow to psychodelic and not directed and filmed to my taste, could have been better done, but I think that they did it on purpose because they were hiding lack of money for better prosthetic or CGI effects on monsters. The ending is satisfying and somehow bleak, just how I like it. Actors are so-so. Veteran Will Patton who plays local chief of security and ex miner looks somehow confused maybe due to lack in this character script development. Other young actors are Alicia Sanz as Arianne, main character, known for her tv roles in ‘El Cid’ and ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ tv series. She is somehow too wooden and not so convincing. Others like Adan Canto or Chinaza Uche are too thin, so the acting is not so good as it could have been. The movie was directed by Bradley Parker who worked on visual effects on ‘Ad Astra’ and ‘Loki’, also being assistant director of second unit on ‘The Batman’ and ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ and directed ‘Chernobyl Diaries’ which was a fine movie to my taste. Story is written by Stefan Jaworski and Eric Scherbarth. This is an average movie by some standards, but I loved it and I love Lovecraftian cosmic horror themes, so I give maybe bigger rate it deserved.

7/10

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(movie) Dead Zone(2022) is another failed post apocalyptic infection zombie flick!

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Not to be confused with same titled Stephen King´s legendary novel and movie, this one is a lame attempt at just another post infection zombie vs special forces movie. A team of special ops soldiers must enter the zone where supposedly all the infected fast running zombies are killed by a blast, called Dead Zone. Their mission is to take new vaccines out and save the world. As it goes in movies such as this, their plans complicate as they are taken one by one by mutants, virus and zombies. This is a cheap ass bad story movie, Michael Jai White and Jeff Fahey only appear a little to justify their names on poster. Everything mostly happens in dark and dim lighted rooms of an abandoned building which plays a science facility in this movie. Zombies are totally no see, in shadow running in impossible angles and main mutant villain is just bad. This is a bad one indeed. Avoid!

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(movie) Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows – The Voices of Women in Metal (2015)

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I recently found this documentary and since I am a sucker for music documentaries, I said, let´s watch this one and see what this is about. Like in hardcore punk scene, metal scene is, I dare say even more sexist and misoginistic towards women and girls really had a hard time through couple of decades to succeed and be respected and recognized as artists equal and even better than their male counterparts.

This documentary talks about women, to be more precise women metal singers who talk bout their experiences and their accomplishments in the scene with their stories which are in many ways similar, yet different and inspiring, also beautiful. This one features Floor Jansen(After Forever,Nightwish,ReVamp), Alissa White-Gluz(Arch Enemy, Kamelot), Simone Simons(Epica), Doro Pesch(Doro, Warlock), Kobra Paige(Kobra and the Lotus)…What I love about this movie that it is told thematically telling basically same story from different angles or points of view at the same time creating similar story but told through the eyes of women who became such undivided part of the scene. I especially love the emotional part of Floor Jansen having suffered from burnout because I experienced something similar a while ago. Also, Alissa White-Gluz is one of my favorite singers, so hearing her story made me happy. What I always hated in the scene were flyers and adds or gigs which advertized ‘female fronted metal band’ or ‘female fronted hardcore band’-I mean, what the fuck is that? I always, always hated that syntagm which I find diminishing and sexist and I hope no one will ever use that again. Anyway, this movie was inspiring and fun to watch. So, if you have a chance, see it!