Viy (2014)
Directed by Oleg
Stepchenko this film also known as “Forbidden Kingdom” stars
Jason Flemming, Aleksey Chadov, Anna Churina and Charles Dance. An
English cartographer in the 18th century travels into the
Ukraine making maps where he comes upon a village living in fear of a
witch.
Taking it's basis in
Nikolai Gogol's classic story unforunately this film wanders rather
far from it's source material. There is a good basis for the story in
the fear of peasants, religious oppression and the coming scientific
enlightenment but this gets bungled in favour of action sequences
leaving a story that is sometimes hard to follow. I found the dubbing
of this film to be all over the place which was distracting to say
the least.
2/5
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