I never got around to seeing this the first time it was released in the UK, mostly because I found the cover showing Antonio Resines’s bloody face rather too menacing for me to dare pick it up from the shelf in Blockbuster. Now it’s out in glorious HD, thanks to Arrow, and I got sent a screener of it so there was no backing out of watching it.
The subtext is explosions
When someone introduces you to a film that holds the accolade of being the first horror film made by the USSR, it’s only polite to give it a watch with very open arms. It’s based on an 1835 story of the same name by Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, and I’ve not seen any films from that region it makes it a double first for me, and that’s what this kind of film blog is all about.
Hands up whoever wants quality entertainment!
Trash or Treasure 