Creepy Catalog's Sam Newman's Best Russian Horror Movies: From the Soviet Union to Today (2020)
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- DirectorKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey GlazyrinA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri JärvetA psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
- DirectorValeri RubinchikStarsBoris PlotnikovElena DimitrovaAlbert FilozovA mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.
- DirectorOleg TeptsovStarsViktor AvilovAnna DemyanenkoMikhail KozakovA famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsVladimir ZeldinTatyana DrubichAleksandr KaydanovskiyA psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
- DirectorDmitriy SvetozarovStarsYuriy KuznetsovMikhail ZhigalovSergey KokovkinA group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.
- DirectorGennadiy KlimovIgor ShavlakStarsYelena KaradzhovaYuriy Katin-YartsevVsevolod KhabarovA newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around.
- DirectorEvgeniy YufitStarsAnatoliy EgorovIvan GanzhaMaksim GribovA biologist, obsessed with the idea of writing a treatise on a new kind of mouse, becomes witness to a number of bizarre and horrific events, from his son's suicide, to the S&M engaged in by respectable middle-aged men, to his own family's psychic morbidity.
- DirectorVladimir BraginStarsAndrey Shcherbovich-VecherVita GrebnevaNadezhda ButyrtsevaHalf-wolf, half-man, 7 feet tall. He came from mountains to rewrite the "Red Riding Hood" story.
- DirectorVladimir AlenikovStarsNikolay KochegarovTatyana NovikVictor RepnikovIn Middle-Age Russia, a Christian preacher arrives, proposing a new order. He threatens those who take part in a pagan festival with the flames of hell. But when strange crimes start to happen, local leaders decide to investigate.
- DirectorAlbert S. MkrtchyanStarsAleksandr ZuevMaryana PoltevaStanislav ZhitaryovA detective investigating a suicide case, finds himself involved in strange affairs of a family!
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsNikolay StotskiySvetlana PismichenkoAnvar LibabovMostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksandr CherednikElizaveta KorolevaSergey BarkovskiyA hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.
- DirectorVladimir MaslovEvgeniy YufitStarsSergey ChernovVasili DeryaginValeri KrishtapenkoThe necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experiment
- DirectorAndrey IskanovStarsAlexandra BatrumovaSvyatoslav IliyasovAndrey IskanovA haunted hitman whose violent career has taken a toll on his mental health turns to trepanning as a means of relieving his growing anxiety.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MenshovMariya PoroshinaA fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsGregory HladyLeonid MozgovoyAleksey KortnevThe writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants.
- DirectorIgor ShavlakStarsSvetlana MetkinaDmitriy OrlovAleksandr VysokovskiyA perfect bank heist turns deadly when the robbers and their hostages flee to the abandoned underground subway station where they encounter the Trackman, a deformed madman that prowls the darkness.
- DirectorAleksandr StrizhenovStarsMarat BasharovDarya BalabanovaAleksandra DykhneA university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium.
- DirectorVladimir MarinichevYoung clerk Jonathan travels to Transylvania in order to meet with a mysterious count.
- DirectorOleg StepchenkoStarsJason FlemyngAndrey SmolyakovAleksey ChadovAn eighteenth century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Romanian forest.
- DirectorOleg AsadulinStarsPavel ChinaryovSvetlana UstinovaVitaliya KornienkoContemporary Russia. A young couple finds a great deal on a used BMW. Unfortunately, it's haunted.
- DirectorSvyatoslav PodgaevskiyStarsViktoriya AgalakovaVyacheslav ChepurchenkoAleksandra RebenokThe unusual practice of photographing dead relatives during mid-1800s rural Russia will link a Philology student with her husband's abysmal family history.
- DirectorSvyatoslav PodgaevskiyChristopher BevinsStarsViktoriya AgalakovaEfim PetruninSofya ShidlovskayaAn aquatic nymph falls obsessively in love with a man and wants to have him with her forever in her underwater kingdom, where she is doomed to spend eternity.
- DirectorPavel SidorovStarsAleksandra DrozdovaAleksandr MolochnikovAnna SlyuSvetlana begins to have realistic nightmares following her brother's death, so she goes to an institute of Somnology for help. Placed into a collective lucid dream, she and other patients wake up in a different, more terrifying reality.