Jeff & Mike kick off their Spooky Season Series with Soviet film "Viy" from 1967 starring Leonid Kuravlyov and Natalya Varley. A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Bonus Reviews: "Bad Sisters" (2022 TV Series) and "One Touch of Venus" (1948 Film)
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Viy (Spirit of Evil) is a 1967 Soviet horror film directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov. Based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, the film's screenplay was written by Yershov, Kropachyov and Aleksandr Ptushko. The film was the first Soviet-era horror film to be officially released in the USSR.