Viy (1967)
7/10
Ukrainian folk horror
16 November 2016
Bear with its somewhat slow first two thirds, and you will be greatly rewarded with this one.

Atmospheric, low budget Ukrainian obscurity begins slowly, by exploring a bit of religion and folklore and superstitions, before venturing into horror territory for its final third, when corpses weep blood, coffins levitate, skeletons walk, the camera goes into well done 360 degree spins, and really creepy white dust-covered demonic ogres crawl out of the woodwork and attack to poor fool who has to spend three nights with the dead body, of a woman he killed, in a small farming community outside of Kiev.

More fairy tale fantasy than horror, until the final third, but never boring.
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