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Viy is a 19th-century tale by Nikolai Gogol, featuring a student who encounters a malevolent witch and her undead daughter in a remote village. The story explores themes of folklore, religion, and psychology, and has influenced many adaptations and interpretations.
Viy is a 1967 Soviet supernatural horror film directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov. It is based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, about a seminary student who is forced to spend three nights in a chapel with a witch's corpse.
Viy is a Russian-Ukrainian film loosely adapted from Nikolai Gogol's horror story of the same name. It follows a cartographer who is cursed by a demon and must save a girl's soul in a haunted village.
Viy: Directed by Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko. With Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin, Nikolay Kutuzov. A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Viy, a novella included in Migorod (1835), is in many respects a typical tale of Gogol’s Ukrainian period: based loosely on folk tradition, it incorporates vivid supernatural elements, and, although its jazzy improvisatory prose extends its riffs for too many bars (to continue the jazz metaphor), occasionally dissipating its own power in the ...
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A group of seminary students from the city go on summer break, drunkenly wandering the countryside. They end up lost, and spend a night in the company of a haggard witch. A scuffle breaks out, and...
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- Horror, Fantasy
“Viy” is disturbing, absurd, bizarre, and outlandish at the same time. A real treat for anyone who wants to take a deep dive into a world of phantasmagoria. Full Review | Sep...
