The Ghost from Hovrino
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- Directed by
- Kirill Khrestinin
- Written by
- Kirill Khrestinin
- Produced by
- Kirill Khrestinin
Why it’s HorroRated
Judged as what it is, a one-camera micro-budget production, this is a seriously impressive piece of do-it-yourself horror. Khrestinin turns a snowy birch forest, an old cross and a nursery-rhyme legend into real unease, and casting himself as the director who refuses to stop filming gives the format a believable engine. The loose, joking start makes the slide into panic land harder. Expect the rough edges that come with a single light and no money; the passion behind every frame more than carries it.
Synopsis
Shot on a single camera in a snowbound forest outside Moscow, The Ghost from Hovrino (2012) is Kirill Khrestinin's Russian found-footage horror film, presented as recovered tape from a trip to document a ghost said to be fed by pagan sorcerers. Khrestinin wrote, directed and produced it and plays the filmmaker himself, with Roman Prussakov, Anton Demkin and Artem Polienko as the friends who follow him in and Sergey Shanin as a scholar of old Russian culture.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- February 6, 2012
- Runtime
- 1 hour 20 mins
- Country
- Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Content rating
- 13+
- Entry type
- Movie
Content notes
- Grave digging
- Described ritual sacrifice
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