Black Sunday (1960)
Aug 9, 2000Italian Gothic/Revived Witch's Revenge
Classic work that defined the Italian Gothic cycle of the 1960s and turned Barbara Steele into a cult actress. Mario Bava shoots is vivid, incredibly atmospheric black-and-white
Nikolai Gogol
Viy (1967)
Jan 28, 2013Soviet Horror Film/Monk Fights the Forces of Hell
The only horror film ever made in Communist Russia. Adaptation of a classic story about a monk sequestered with the body of a woman for three nights, the film creates an undeniable atmosphere and mounts to a wildly fantastical climax where he must face all the minions of Hell
Viy (2014)
Jan 24, 2018Russian Gothic
Russian-made adaptation of a classic horror story that takes place as an exquisitely stylised 19th Century Gothic fantasy world but is a head-scratchingly incoherent mishmash on a plotting level