The short film is based on the ballad of the same name by Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. The plot is based on Gottfried Bürger's ballad "Lenora."
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The short film is based on the ballad of the same name by Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. The plot is based on Gottfried Bürger's ballad "Lenora."
Rebellious schoolgirl Dana grieves for her younger sister, a once-happy kid who suddenly stepped in front of a train. Desperate to learn what happened, she explores her sister's online history, discovering a sinister social-media game.
Life circumstances, curiosity, corruption, ignorance. Four sinister stories based on folk legends. A bunch of friends gathers around an Ouija board. Two hunters wake up in a hut in the middle of woods. A young guy arrives at a rural community on a business trip. A stranger in a stolen car is trying to leave the area. None of them has an idea that during the mysterious Tankha season THEY come to our world...
A man is sitting on a balcony while life is going on outside the window
An old shaman asks the spirits to let him go. He has spent his entire life serving people who demanded that their wishes be fulfilled - sometimes stupid, insignificant and causing harm to others.
Cossacks Kol'ka and Zarubin travel to Moscow to buy an ox. Their trip turns chaotic when a local witch seduces Kol'ka and replaces his brown eyes with blue ones. The pair must fight against a supernatural underworld to get his original eyes back.
Dimitri Venkov’s Krisis is based on a Facebook discussion on December 8, 2013, the day on which pro-European demonstrators in Kiev started to demolish statues of Vladimir Lenin. The film reenacts debates between Russian and Ukrainian artists during the protests, revealing deep aesthetic, historical, and political divisions.
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
Zhenya fancies himself an omnipotent hypnotist. And wow, it worked: autosuggestion is a great thing! A close look, a slow movement of the hand - and now a large casino has been ruined. Where to go with so much money?..
A group of warriors encounters mythical siren in the forest.
A happy family - parents and an angelic daughter. The mother loves her so much that she is ready to dissolve in the child without a trace... or is it the child who is ready to suck all the juices out of the mother?
A strict elderly teacher suddenly begins to seem (or not to appear?) That the students in her class are no longer children, but terrible monsters, pursuing their mysterious goals.
There is an ancient ritual known to humankind for more than a hundred years...According to the legend, an ominous entity known as The Queen of Spades can be summoned by drawing a door and staircase on a mirror in the darkness, and by saying her name three times. The Queen of Spades gets her energy from reflective objects; she cuts locks of hair from those asleep, and those that see her go mad or die. Four teenagers decide to call The Queen of Spades as a joke. But when one of them dies of a sudden heart attack, the group realizes they are up against something inexplicable and deadly dangerous.
A traumatic experience leads to a break-up between a young married couple. In a desperate attempt to save their marriage, Andrey, the husband, seeks help from a psychic named Mara. His only wish is to make his wife Olga forget the past. Mara's magic works, but the second honeymoon soon turns into a living nightmare... Andrey gradually recognizes that he is dealing with a powerful evil that possesses his wife, and the price of the psychic's service is Olga’s life.
Based on real events. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades. The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.
After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
Katya has a powerful gift: she sees ghosts. When her twin sister disappears, Katya begins a desperate search. Police insist her sister doesn’t exist, that she is a figment of Katya’s twisted imagination. However, during her search Katya discovers that there is a serial killer loose on the streets, and her sister is one of his victims. There is still hope to save her, but in a dark and mysterious city full of secrets, you can’t trust anyone. Not even yourself...
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
A musician in the deep state of a creative crisis is signed to a rehab program at the highly protected, isolated sanatorium that promises a lifetime warranty for endless inspiration. A bourgeois setting with welcoming stuff slowly creeps into a violent cult that tortures artists in the name of inspiration. The musician's greatest hit becomes his darkest nightmare.
Three years into a zombie epidemic, a group of survivors prepare to leave their wooded shelter and brave the flesh eaters in order to reach the city.
As a child, Dmitry got lost in the forest, and since then has avoided going there. Now an adult, the guy graduated from YSU and has not yet decided what to do next. The height of July, Dmitry’s friends are calling to the forest to drink vodka and eat barbecue. Already being in a fair amount of drinking, they begin to stray and stumble upon a shaman tree. There is a quarrel. The guys, warmed up by vapors of alcohol, pluck evil on a tree, and someone is already watching them from the forest.
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Two Detectives are searching for clues to some very unique murders. A close friend finding her faith in search to clear her friend and a very bad man make up the main characters to this thriller.
After his wife Lucy walks out on him, Alexander tries to seek solace in alcohol and drugs, but the pain just won't go away. He is given the address of a mysterious man who claims to have the answer; a strange, powerful narcotic that will take away his anguish. Alexander can't take any more so he visits the dealer and is given the drug. For a while he feels fine, life is good again, until he realizes that shadowy figures are pursuing him. He tries to escape but there is no hiding from the Ingression.
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid dream». But at the dawn, they will awake to a completely different reality that is more horrifying than any nightmare.
A group of young people journey to rural Russia, only to find themselves being mercilessly ground by monsters from Slavic myths.
A group of Russian tourists go on a shopping spree to the neighboring Finland - only to be attacked by Finnish cannibals. We focus on a middle-aged woman and her teenage son who is shooting the film, as we watch it, on his cell-phone.
Nails is the story of an assassin (his name is Hitman) who has a terrible headache and the only solution to cure it is drastic, that is, sticking a series of nails into his skull! This is only the first step towards a form of self-destruction that in the final part of the film gives us some truly unhealthy and disturbing images, obviously accompanied by blood and offal. A true visual delirium studied in the smallest details starting from the use of color in the three phases that punctuate this debut on acid.
A reclusive hunter pursues a mysterious young man through the desolate northern woods, blurring the line between predator and prey.
Rapper Alisher Morgenshtern played a self-confident musician who dies at the peak of his career from a drug overdose and goes to hell. There he is tormented by a phlegmatic demon.
A Russian film about a guy who makes the mistake of enlisting the services of a gypsy. His life spirals out of control, and he spends most of his days in a satanic netherworld.
Two people in love will find a hut in the woods that they decide to sleep in. The cottage is located on the shore of a lake and beautiful views is just a shadow of an ax stuck in the executioner's block of wood near the house. When they wake up one morning, they see a peacock and the cottage has been transformed into a beautiful palace...
A young couple moves into what appears to be the perfect home, but when they discover that they will soon become parents, things begin to fall apart. Rachel, the expectant mother, is haunted by a ghost in a red dress, while Kevin, the soon to be father, has frightening nightmares even while he’s awake. The once happy couple is torn apart by horrific events, which all seem to be centered around the birth of their unborn child.
With their deadline looming, a small team of construction workers isn't too happy to find an anomaly in the house they're renovating. Especially one that breaks the laws of physics. But maybe there’s something to be gained from this? Like a finder's fee… Or nightmare fuel.
Young Katya meets a merry company of visiting guys who have a specific entertainment - to organize parties in other people's empty houses. And Katya knows the right place: an old country house on the coast, the owner of which left for a long time. The secluded house, in which the spiritualist salon was at the beginning of the last century, seems to everyone an excellent option. Alarming, even the terrible abandonment of this place does not frighten anyone ... In the midst of the party, someone whom Katya never expected to see appears: the mysterious master of the house ... The man she loved. A man in the grip of otherworldly forces.
A young woman, Mila, is kidnapped by a mysterious and dangerous organization known as Recreation. Forced to stay awake and under constant surveillance, Mila must fight for control of her own mind.
This is a story about a man who believes that he has two “selves” - external and internal. That is, an organism is a certain conglomerate of cells, each of which is a separate individual. This hybrid creature has a certain common personal “I” that uses the entire organism, and is the organism itself, which has its own will. According to the character, one can communicate with him, which is what he is trying to do. He wants to reach him and comes up with different ways of communication: injecting substances under the skin or intravenously, tattooing texts on the body, swallowing objects. The answer would come in the form of a rash or other physical manifestation that had to be interpreted. As a result, communication is carried out and the second “I” agrees to die.
Two escaped prisoners on the run in eastern Kentucky encounter the spirit of a witch who is hell-bent on revenge.
After making a difficult life decision, a girl returns home from a trip. Alone in her dark apartment, she starts to question her choice. She is about to confront her worst nightmare.
'The perfect killers just met their match'. The young fella is drawn into a criminal gang of his older brother that engaged in assassinations. But when they on the affair, they face a maniac who opens them hunt.
A small European town, where sisters Ayia and Mirra live, gets struck down by an unknown disease which takes many lives. Following their mother's death, the younger sister falls ill. Having realized that conventional medicine is useless in the face of the sister's disease, Ayia seeks help from Father Herman, a parish priest and a close family friend. In his house she finds books that are very far from the conventional religion. She gets to know that only penetration into Mirra's sick subconscious mind and discovery of the true cause of her disease will give her a chance to save her sister. Ayia is ready to go through this terrifying ritual, dive into the depths of the subconscious mind, and face the demons residing there. But will she cope with her own fear when she discovers the mysteries of her sister's past? Since the closer to the bottom of the ocean, the darker it gets.
The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.
A 7-year-old boy named Tema notices ominous metamorphoses in his father: a man working at a chemical plant is gradually becoming a reptile, a transformation that is incompatible with life. The father wants to give his son a future outside the cursed city, but the boy's mother sees his life under the care of the family. After losing her daughter Olya, she is not ready to let her son go.
Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying nearby is said to possess a secret for winning a fortune at the game. Germann is determined to learn this secret from her, and he initiates a romance with her grand-daughter Liza, in order to improve his chances.
In an old Soviet music hall, an orchestra is recording a composition based on Pushkin's "Feast During the Plague". An invisible and frightening force is interfering with the musicians - whether it is the spirits of the past or the echo of war, but no one notices what is happening around them until the terrible end comes.
On TV a new reality show, "Pionerlager", has started. Following the results of a casting, five young men and five girls, led by young TV presenter Alice Ten, go to the thrown pioneer camp. The rules state that every week someone would be eliminated from the show. The last one remaining will win the main prize: one million roubles. But suddenly game rules change: the invisible observer declares that it is life, not money, that will be the award for the winner. The maniac hiding behind the mask of a horse, begins a hunt for the participants. Children's horror stories which he once listened to in pioneer camp, revive and become a plot of its own murders.
Atakan is a bloody boulder, a giant granite block, on which pagans sacrificed human sacrifices for centuries. A group of student historians, led by a young teacher, descend into the dungeons of St. Petersburg to find the legendary stone. With each step, the situation gets out of control, only death awaits them. The attack craves new blood. Who will survive?
Unofficial Russian Dollar Baby adaptation of Stephen King's 'One for the Road'.
Two friends in summer camp encounter paranormal events when they see that other children and their counselors act like they in cult or even being something more scary. So scary that they may be different.
The company of young people falls into the forest outback on a mysterious lake and is faced with mystical horror. Based on the Belarusian legend that with the advent of night, everyone who died in the water turns into monsters that take the living with them.
Journalist Kristina is filming a documentary about a case of domestic violence in an old high-rise building. But it turns out that these walls hold many secrets, because evil has settled in the house.
Andrey Iskanov horror film.
Russian Winter is a terrible thing... especially if it arrives in mid-July. Out amidst the icy storm, something raises its hideous head - a Russian zombie - senseless and merciless.
Dr. Eugene has a goal - to perform the operation of his life. To do this, he escapes from a certain research institute of the brain and begins to look for the only person suitable for this purpose.
Holding hands, Dayaana and her beloved only daughter Sandaara, walked through an endless forest for a long time. Eventually they reach a distant, unrecognized village full of strange inhabitants and strange happenings. The residents themselves are astonished by Dayaana since they cannot see her daughter...
A group of six young Russian boys at a summer camp tell each other scary stories while waiting to fall asleep one night.