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(little movie secrets) 1974: La posesion de Altair(2016) is a must for found footage fans!

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This Mexican found footage horror is done in an old school retro style with grainy camera, retro sound settings and great atmosphere. It all starts with mockumentary black and white collage of people talking about Manuel and Altair, young couple who disappeared and how they saw them scared to death of something running through the woods and their house burned. Well, then the movie takes us back to newly wed couple who move into a lovely house near woods but at night strange things start to happen. First their dog disappears, then returns grown up from being a puppy in a day, Altair starts to act strangely and Manuel seeks help of her sister and their mutual friend. Well, all the settings for good found footage are here. Running, night scare jumps, some expected scenes and this would not take this movie away from being a decent but not great found footage horror. But, the story led me to totally another way thinking how it would end, but the ending surprised me, being one of the already used endings in some movies, but still done greatly. That makes this one a great found footage. Directed and written by Victor Dryere.

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(movie) The Twin (2022) is an atmospheric psychological horror tale set in Finland!

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After the loss of their son Nathan, married couple move to Finland with their survived son, Elliot, who is Nathan´s twin brother. There in the north of Finland, couple seeks to find solace and deal with grief and loss. But, sinister forces are at work. Elliot starts to behave weird, claiming that he is Nathan and Anthony, the husband becomes estranged and somehow stops taking notes of Rachel´s search for truth. The townsfolk are weird and just stand in front of the house and watch. Is there a way to bring Nathan back, sell your soul or sacrifice everything?

Well, this one was your average folk psychological horror tale like so many others. Meaning, desolate place, cultists, ancient beliefs, pagan lore, family which tries to cope with loss and grief. But, the twist in the end of the movie somehow saves it to be a bit above average and saves the movie in making it a decent one. Teresa Palmer(Warm Bodies, Lights Out) is good, Steven Cree(Outlaw King, Maleficent) somehow does not manage to have chemistry with Palmer´s character Rachel. Directed by Taneli Mustonen(Lake Bodom).

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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.

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