From Russia comes this wild ride of a movie that will remind many of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films. The simple story concerns a priest in training who is asked by the locals to stay in their eerie wooden church for three nights to recite holy verses over the body of the wealthiest citizen’s daughter. Unfortunately, as he discovers while trapped for the first night in the church, the dead girl is also a witch who rises from her coffin, stopped only by a holy circle of chalk drawn around the frightened seminarian. Each night the sorceress unleashes more powers to fight the ritual. It’s not Hausu-level insanity. The story here never flies completely away from reality, and the wild moments are limited to the nighttime, so it’s more like a musical that breaks into wild Horror imagery instead of song and dance.
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