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Viy

The Soviet Union’s first horror film!

6.9(296)19671h 16m3

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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Language
Russian
  • witch
  • village
  • evil spirit
  • corpse
  • demon
  • gothic horror
  • folk horror

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  • RussiaSU

    • Theatrical27 Nov 1967

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Viy was released on 27 November 1967.

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    CinemaSerf

    12/26/2022

    7/10

    I gather this is one of the few "horror" films ever made during the Soviet era and it plays rather well on the superstitions of a rural population who are pretty much scared of their own shadows! "Khoma" (Leonid Kuravlyov) is a young priest who is charged with sitting with the corpse of a young woman. Locked, overnight, inside a small wooden church, he must protect her body from the evil spirits that might emanate fr…

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