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‘Sleepless Beauty’ Wakes Up This November (Trailer)

From Russian director Pavel Khvaleev (Involution) comes the kidnapping horror Sleepless Beauty starring Polina Davydova who he worked with on III: The Ritual. “The film tells a twisted story about a young woman, Mila, who is kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as Recreation. Her unknown abductors talk to her through a loudspeaker and set strict rules: she cannot sleep and has to fulfill bizarre and violent tasks if she hopes to stay alive. At first, it looks like someone’s sick idea of entertainment but as the demands become more intense, Mila begins to realize that she is losing control of her own mind and instead, may be a pawn in a twisted and deadly psychological experiment.” Aleksandra Khvaleeva wrote the film, produced by Frank Ellrich, Georgiy Smirnov, and Elena Talyanksaya. It features cinematography and editing by Khvaleev. And is a Monomania Films Production. Sleepless Beauty made its world premiere at the 2020 Imagine Film Festival and was an official

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 6, 2020

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Shudder Captures Russian Creature Feature ‘The Superdeep’

Shudder has captured the inspired by true events Russian creature-feature The Superdeep (aka Kolskaya Sverhglubokaya) ahead of its premiere at Sitges. The film, which looks like it’s paying homage to John Carpenter’s The Thing, was written and directed by Roman Karimov, Superdeep stars Milena Radulovic, Maksim Radugin, Nikita Dyuvbanov, and Andrey Trushin. It was produced by Sergey Torchilin, Alexander Kalushkin, Ivan Tarlykov, Konstantin Elkin, and Andrey Lyakhov. In The Superdeep, “The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the most large-scale secret object of the country. In 1984, inexplicable sounds like the screams of many voices were recorded at a depth of more than 12 kilometers. In the wake of these events, the object was closed. A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world’s deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.” The Superdeep is expected to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 12, 2020

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Bring ‘Evil Boy’ Home This September!

The terrifying Russian born horror Evil Boy is ready to wreak havoc in the U.S. on Digital and DVD next week. After their son disappears, grieving parents adopt a feral boy who begins to eerily resemble their missing child in the terrifying supernatural horror film Evil Boy. Evil Boy had its international premiere at the 2019 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and this release features an all-new English dub, in addition to its original subtitled soundtrack. Olga Gorodetskaya makes his feature debut with Evil Boy, starring Elena Lyadova (Leviathan), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (Leviathan), newcomer Sevastian Bugaev, Evgeniy Tsyganov (The Man Who Surprised Everyone), Anna Ukolova (Leviathan), Konstantin Topolaga (Steel Butterfly), and Roza Khayrullina (The Horde). “Several years after their son’s disappearance, a grieving couple adopts a feral boy, who begins to eerily resembles their child more with each passing day. While the mother believes they have found their son, her husband is certain that he died. As strange accidents begin happening

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 2, 2020

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Movie Review: Sputnik (2020)

Commander Konstantin Veshnyakov (Pyotr Fyodorov) is doin’ the Major Tom bag back round ‘83. Well on the way back home, Veshnyakov has the unpleasant discovery that they are not alone in the capsule. One crash landing, an amazingly worse for wear co-pilot, and incarceration in a secret facility later we learn that our hero is a host to a parasitic alien that gives him remarkable regenerative abilities… but, like he has to have a giant space creature inside of him, just a-ridin’ around… Enter: Tatyana Klimova (Oksana Akinshina), a hot shot psychiatric doctor with unconventional methods of treating patients, who’s brought to the facility by hard-ass Colonel Semiradov (Fedor Bondarchuk) to look after our deadly duo. The problem is, the longer Klimova is at the secret base… and I mean, she couldn’t leave even if she wanted to… the more she learns that there are many more secrets involved than just an alien-infested spaceman… and living through the project’s conclusion

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DanXIII

Aug 14, 2020

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Russian Horror ‘Evil Boy’ Scares Up A US Release Date

The Russian born horror Evil Boy, from Well Go USA Entertainment, has scared up a Digital and DVD release date for this September. After their son disappears, grieving parents adopt a feral boy who begins to eerily resemble their missing child in the terrifying supernatural horror film Evil Boy. Evil Boy had its international premiere at the 2019 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and this release features an all-new English dub, in addition to its original subtitled soundtrack. Olga Gorodetskaya makes his feature debut with Evil Boy, starring Elena Lyadova (Leviathan), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (Leviathan), newcomer Sevastian Bugaev, Evgeniy Tsyganov (The Man Who Surprised Everyone), Anna Ukolova (Leviathan), Konstantin Topolaga (Steel Butterfly), and Roza Khayrullina (The Horde). “Several years after their son’s disappearance, a grieving couple adopts a feral boy, who begins to eerily resembles their child more with each passing day. While the mother believes they have found their son, her husband is certain that he died. As strange accidents

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 30, 2020

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Sci-Fi Horror ‘Sputnik’ Lands In The US This August (New Trailer)

One of the most highly-anticipated genre films of the summer is Egor Abramenko‘s film, Sputnik, part sci-fi, part creature feature, and all horror. Today we can report that the film now has a US release date and a brand new trailer (you can find both trailers below)! In the Russian born film, “the lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone—hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. His only hope: a doctor who’s ready to do whatever it takes to save her patient.” Oksana Akinshina (Lilya 4-Ever), Fedor Bondarchuk (9th Company), and Pyotr Fyodorov (TThe Darkest Hour) star. Sputnik lands on VOD in the US on August 14th, from IFC Midnight.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 21, 2020

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IFC Midnight Acquires Out Of This World Sci-Fi Horror ‘Sputnik’

IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquired the North American rights to Egor Abramenko’s directorial debut Sputnik from XYZ Films. Abramenko’s sci-fi thriller short film The Passenger played in the 2017 Fantastic Film Festival in Austin and was the inspiration for his feature debut. The film stars Oksana Akinshina who debuted in Lukas Moodysson’s award-winning film Lilya 4-EVER, alongside Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, and Anton Vasilev. The script was written by Oleg Malovichko and Andrei Zolotarev. Producing is Vodorod Pictures, Art Pictures Studio, Hype Film, Cinema Fund, NMG Studio, and CTC Network. Producers are Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Andryushenko, Fedor Bondarchuk, Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Vyacheslav Murugov. In the film, at the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 4, 2020

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Blu-ray Review: Abigail (2019)

Abigail (Tinatin Dalakishvili) has grown up in a city surrounded by a thick border constructed to keep a mysterious illness at bay… an illness so severe that if you show any signs of having it the government just hauls your ass away (as they did with Abigail’s own father). The problem with this is, the disease doesn’t exist. In fact, Abigail’s city has been overtaken by dark magic users who have attempted to erase all knowledge of magic in a city once full of it, and dig this; the people hauled away are those suspected of being able to possess magic ability. This of course sets Abigail off on a journey to find her father while learning to control her own burgeoning magical abilities while becoming a hero to the downtrodden… all in a days work for our scrappy heroine! The first thing you will doubtless notice about Abigail is that this film is absolutely a visual wonder. Every detail

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DanXIII

Mar 14, 2020

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