Hollywood is sleeping today, so we're of to enjoy some Slavic horror in two new Russian movies! GOGOL: THE BEGINNING has a highly

The movie was shot in four parts!

unusual release schedule! Shot in four parts, the movie will have the first part out in cinemas August 31st followed by the three others every six weeks! That is one sequel per month till the end of the year.

NIGHT IS DARKEST BEFORE DAWN
In the movie in which Alexander Petrov and Oleg Menshikov play the lead roles, the story is set in the first half of the XIX century. Village of Dikanka is hit by terrible and mysterious murders.  Attracted by the mystery, famous investigator Yakov Petrovich Guro (Oleg Menshikov) arrives to the village. A few days before the departure from the capital to the god-forsaken village, Guro met with the young clerk Nikolai Gogol (Alexander Petrov), who helped him uncover the murder of a noble lady. Intrigued by the strange visions of Gogol, Yakov Petrovich takes Nikolai with him to Dikanka and as time will show, it's not in vain ... Young Gogol does not even guess that soon he will enter a deadly battle with unknown forces, meet his first love and write one of the most amazing books in the history of Russian literature!

The movie is already showing in Russian cinemas

Another famous Russian writer, Alexei Tolstoy, lends his story as the plot of a movie in VURDALAKI! The horror is based on his novel The Ghoul Family which takes place in the Carpathian Mountains in the Spassky Monastery, where the confessor of Tzarina Elizabeth, monk Laurus, was exiled. Those lands were considered grim,  enveloped in legends about the evil forces that had remained there since the Turkish raids. Years later, the main character comes there - a young man named Andrei (Konstantin Kryukov), the godson of Elizabeth herself. In the Carpathians, Andrei is confronted with something supernatural and frightening, something that can not be explained. And he falls madly in love with the beautiful Milena, over whom a deadly danger looms. Now Andrew is forced to enter into battle with the evil itself, in order to save his love.