Spirit of Evil / Viy / Вий (1967) [Masters of Cinema - Eureka!]

Director: Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov
Writer: Konstantin Ershov, Nikolay Gogol (story) (as Nikolai Gogol)
Stars: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin

Getting lost, wandering home whilst on leave from his seminary, novice monk Khoma stays in the barn of an old woman. A scuffle breaks out. Later, he is summoned to stand and pray over a young dead woman, in the local church, for three nights. It is here that, while in the long, dark nights of the locked doors, the dead regain life, the souls of Hell taunt the young monk to near terrifying insanity, and the test of Faith will be as powerful as the witches, monsters and the mighty demon Viy who haunt his every step and bay for his very soul.

Extras:
- LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE BONUS DISC: A HOLY PLACE [Sveto mesto] (1990, dir. Djordje Kadijevic) A adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s short story and a stunning example of Serbian Gothic cinema from director Djordje Kadijevic. Described by critic Dejan Ognjanovic as “an unparalleled excess of perversity and terror”
- New Interview with A HOLY PLACE director Djordje Kadijevic (Limited Edition Exclusive Only)
- 1080p presentation on Blu-ray
- Original Russian mono audio
- Optional English mono audio
- Optional English subtitles and English SDH
- Brand new audio commentary with film historian and eastern European cinema expert Michael Brooke
- Brand new video essay on Russian novelist and VIY author Nikolai Gogol
- Archival documentary on VIY
- Three Russian silent film fragments, The Portrait [1915, 8 mins], The Queen of Spades [1916, 16 mins], and Satan Exultant [1917, 20 mins]




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