Viy first published by Little White Lies, as entry 123 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column The Russian author Nikolai Gogol published his novella Viy as part of a collection of short stories called Mirgorod which first came to print in 1835. It was a bawdy tale of the supernatural, with horny witches, errant holy men…
The Vigil first published by Sight & Sound, September 2020 Review: Following the witchy theme of his short film Arkane (2017), writer/director Keith Tomas turns again to horror for his debut feature The Vigil, as he adds to a recent run of films – Ole Bornedal’s The Possession (2012), the Paz brothers’ JeruZalem (2015) and…