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Viy

“The Soviet Union’s first horror film!”

1967 · 1 h 17 min
Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
DramaFantasyHorror

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

A seminary student must spend three nights praying over a witch's corpse in a remote village.

Sinekatalog’s take

Aleksandr Ptushko's Soviet folk-horror, based on Gogol, is atmospheric and surreal, with elaborate special effects.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (12,212 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.