Not a single monster in this collection was invented by a screenwriter: every monster here is real, and documented.

My grandmother was a child of the Second World War. She often scolded me for watching “some crap” about vampires, zombies, aliens and other, possibly invented creatures — while she herself spent her days, and still spends them, on war films and TV shows about other people’s domestic troubles.
And, in my opinion, that is where the real horrors live.

Our argument about what true horror really is ended in nothing: each of us stayed with our own view.

Horror films and science fiction with invented plots are my way of escaping the horrors of the real world: I know (or hope) that supernatural entities do not exist. But I do know about monsters that exist for real — abstract ones, and ones in human shape. And the films in the “Antiwar” collection will show you exactly such monsters and the consequences of their deeds. No other horror film will frighten you the way these films do.

Wars are started and ended by those who stay far from the fighting. As Paul Valéry wrote: “War is the massacre of people who don’t know each other, for the profit of people who know each other and don’t massacre each other.”
Or, as its interpretation has it: “War is a place where young people who don’t know each other and don’t hate each other kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other and don’t hate each other.”

These films remind and warn — they tell of horrifying events that at some point became the norm. And whatever is habitual comes to be considered normal. And habituation is exactly that silence Martin Luther King spoke of: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Antiwar” is a reminder of what must never happen.