This is a Russian film that borrows from Sherlock Holmes, penny dreadful, the Mummy, the Witch etc... It is mostly in Russian but there are some English too with English subtitles throughout this film which I suppose is to appeal to an American Audience with a couple of English Actors among the cast.
This is not a bad film. I would compare this film to slicing up a loaf of bread in that if you cut it too thin is it still worth making toast out of it or is so paper thin that it will burn into nothingness?! This is why this film doesn't work for me as it tries to be a jack of all trades (incorporating various gothic themes- Jack the ripper type killings, seance, reviving the dead from an ancient book) but master of none (as it is clumsily meshed together like joining 2 used bars of soap together & hoping the viewer do not notice). It could have or should have been better than it turned out. The ending is cheesy too.
This is not a bad film. I would compare this film to slicing up a loaf of bread in that if you cut it too thin is it still worth making toast out of it or is so paper thin that it will burn into nothingness?! This is why this film doesn't work for me as it tries to be a jack of all trades (incorporating various gothic themes- Jack the ripper type killings, seance, reviving the dead from an ancient book) but master of none (as it is clumsily meshed together like joining 2 used bars of soap together & hoping the viewer do not notice). It could have or should have been better than it turned out. The ending is cheesy too.