After encountering a witch, a young philosophy student is forced to preside over her wake for three nights with only his faith to protect him.
Wij is a story by Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol, a famous Russian author of Ukrainian origin, that I enjoyed immensely when I read it in "Von denen Vampiren oder Menchensaugern" a collection of stories about anything vampiric. Among a lot of interesting tales, historical accounts, etc. this was a stand-out story.
The movie does an excellent…
"But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!"
A knight coming home from the Crusades to find his country ravaged by the plague, fear, and religious fever. On his way back home, he meets people from different walks of life and death, with whom he plays a dangerous game.
"Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call."
The Seventh Seal…
Lost Highway is an enigmatic story about death, sex, love, power, and doppelgangers. I can't claim that I liked it anywhere as much as Mulholland Drive, but it was still a pretty interesting movie, even if it lost me a bit during the middle part.
"We've met before, haven't we? [...] "At your house. Don't you remember?"
As with Mulholland Drive, I can't claim to 100% understand it, but for me, it was mostly about toxic masculinity as well as…
An English botanist studying rare herbs in a remote Buddhist temple within the Himalayas joins an expedition to search for the legendary yeti. Still, the intentions of his new companions are far less noble than his own.
One of my brother's favorite Hammer movies is "The Abominable Snowman," and I completely understand why.
Not only is it a gorgeous artistic representation of those eternal snowy mountains and a unique, though somewhat fictionalized culture, but it also cleverly plays with your…
