#pevnost

Czechoslovakian poster for Pevnost (Az erőd) (Hungary, 1979 dir: Miklós Szinetár)

The Protagonist is lucky! The army is not at home, and his opponent has kept only a few bodyguards at his side. After a three-hour journey on foot between the capitals, Our Hero penetrates the chambers of The Dark Lord, who tells the guards not to interfere. A duel ensues, during which The Bad Guy's defeated. The Protagonist orders the guards to throw their master into a dungeon. Although they do not receive pay from him, they do obey him. The Hero then goes to speak to the army, who as one man acknowledges that their master was seriously evil. Occasionally, thousands of soldiers respond to the hero in unison. ...if they didn't disappear like steam over a pot in the meantime, because it was a magical army.

Tentokrát byste měli, protože tam najdete povídku od yours truly.

Povídka Předurčení má za sebou dlouhou historii tvoření a snahy ji někam dostat. Původně měla vyjít v Kočasu, který se ale kvůli Covidu nekonal. Tak teď se ke čtenářům dostává v časopisové formě!

You're lucky I've been buying genre magazine for years.

There's a lot of whining about a lack of decent horror production world-wide these days. That said Eastern-Asian horror has pretty decent reputation here. From the top of my head, Train to Busan and Kingdom have good ratings.

As for our own... well, Czech cinematography's best times are behind us. There's a little new stuff, and it's mostly mainstream. We're a small market, and while we have great writers, films require more money, people etc. Ironically, foreign productions like us- locations, support, all those "invisible" specialists behind moviemaking... When I searched for Czech horror in past twenty years, it showed me around ten titles. Mostly shorts, and completely unfamiliar.

Jak jste si volili vaše zaměstnání vy? A co kdyby budoucnost někdo vybral za vás? Byl by to hezký život... nebo utrpení?