Showing posts with label Viy (1967). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viy (1967). Show all posts

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Viy (1967) [Folk Horror]




Directed by Konstantin Ershov & Georgiy Kropachyov

Writing Credits Konstantin Ershov & Nikolay Gogol (story) (as Nikolai Gogol), Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko

Based on a novel by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, Viy explorers the power of faith and belief in mythology through the efforts of a young seminary student struggling to fight a vengeful witch whose path he has inadvertently crossed.