Screening of the 1967 Soviet horror film 'Viy', with English subtitles, at The Trylon Cinema as part of its 'Evil Incantations' series.
The Trylon Cinema is screening Viy, the 1967 Soviet horror film, over three nights: Friday, Oct 23, Saturday, Oct 24, and Sunday, Oct 25. It's a 77-minute feature in Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles, directed by Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, and Aleksandr Ptushko, and starring Nikolay Kutuzov, Leonid Kuravlyov, and Natalya Varley.
Viy adapts Nikolai Gogol's tale of a haunting that unfolds over three nights, summoned by a witch. The title character, the Viy, is a fiendish, ogreish monster with all-seeing eyes and unique eyelids. The witch herself shifts from old to young and back again—played by a young woman at times and a middle-aged man at others—and flies around in a coffin. The film leans into surreal, phantasmagoric, and campy horror, and it does it all with practical effects: the witch rides her victim like a horse, with actors strapped to a masked harness as a large disc spins beneath them; creatures are played by people in masks or latex prosthetics; and the Viy itself is a puppet the size of Big Bird, animated with stop-trick editing. It's described as a horror film that spirals into the grotesque, weaving a classic haunting with folk art and puppetry.
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The screenings are part of the Trylon's "Evil Incantations: Witchcraft, Hexes, and Demonology" series, which runs through October at the Trylon and the Heights. You can catch Viy at 7 PM on Friday, 8:45 PM on Saturday, and 1:30 PM on Sunday at The Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406.
