Viy

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First time viewed: Yes

Current Release: Yes

Watched With: Ichina

Russian film festival is on and this film looked kooky. And was playing in 3D. It certainly is kooky. Some lavish production design too. But it's not entirely successful. The editing and the structuring is really odd and jolting. It can be hard to keep track of things. Theres some great creature design stuff and some really cool action and horror suspense sequences. There's also some humour that perhaps doesn't translate well. 

Charles Dance is totally in this. 

Viy, the creature itself, looks really awesome, but I don't think this film is going to let you know much about the original folklore, its telling its own story. Its a mess, with some really cool bits.