So I went into this blind and as soon as it started I spent the first five minutes scrabbling to find some subtitles as it was mainly in Russian/Ukrainian. None were to be found, seems the filmmakers decided that English speakers were to be kept in the dark on the many, many conversations between the Ukrainian characters.
Now onto the actual film itself, to put it kindly the film is a mess. They were making a pilot about modern day cannibals and were there to film about a killer called Boris, who was suspected of eating his neighbour. They spend all of two minutes with him before going to his house and then the rest of the film takes place there. When he doesn't show up for an interview they decide against looking for him and instead have a drunken seance. This obviously goes wrong and for some reason they have summoned the evil spirit of Andrei Chikatilo dun dun duuuun.
There's more shouting in Ukrainian without any translation offered so we can only guess at what's happening. Is it ghosts? Is it a possession? Is it Boris? Yes it's all three. I think. I'm not sure. Could be none of them. The last 20-30 minutes are people running in the dark and screaming at things we can't see or hear only to disappear into the darkness and be presumed dead.
It had promise but the Chikatilo addition seemed weird and gimmicky, it added nothing and actually detracted from the film as it seemed to excuse his crimes as being those of a possessed madman.
The acting was decent but the problems far far outweigh any positives the film may have. I'd avoid it.
Now onto the actual film itself, to put it kindly the film is a mess. They were making a pilot about modern day cannibals and were there to film about a killer called Boris, who was suspected of eating his neighbour. They spend all of two minutes with him before going to his house and then the rest of the film takes place there. When he doesn't show up for an interview they decide against looking for him and instead have a drunken seance. This obviously goes wrong and for some reason they have summoned the evil spirit of Andrei Chikatilo dun dun duuuun.
There's more shouting in Ukrainian without any translation offered so we can only guess at what's happening. Is it ghosts? Is it a possession? Is it Boris? Yes it's all three. I think. I'm not sure. Could be none of them. The last 20-30 minutes are people running in the dark and screaming at things we can't see or hear only to disappear into the darkness and be presumed dead.
It had promise but the Chikatilo addition seemed weird and gimmicky, it added nothing and actually detracted from the film as it seemed to excuse his crimes as being those of a possessed madman.
The acting was decent but the problems far far outweigh any positives the film may have. I'd avoid it.