Review of Viy (1967) by Thanasis A — 22 Apr 2011

I prefer that kind of pretty fairytails with oldfashion effects, than the new plastic horrors!

Really enjoy it...

This review of Viy (1967) was written by Thanasis A on 22 Apr 2011.

Viy has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Viy

Review of Viy (1967)

By Philip P (375) on 29 Apr 2009

A seminarian in Czarist Ukraine must say prayers for three nights over the corpse of a deceased witch who had a vendetta against him…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Sarah G (848) on 21 Feb 2010

When I rented this movie I was told that it was a sort of proto-Tim Burton piece…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Private U (13,627) on 15 Oct 2007

Not a great movie; but bizarre special effects make this a memorable Russian horror movie based on Gogol's great short story…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Johnny K (180) on 19 Oct 2011

Supposedly the 1st Horror film made in Russia it's good worth checking out. It also has a lot of comedy before things get scary…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Ben R (1,048) on 17 Jul 2011

Sort of interesting movie, killer finish, but man, what a slow buildup. A rector gets an assignment to pray over a recently deceased woman…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Jens T (504) on 07 Nov 2011

If you combine Bergman and some of Bresson's metaphysical elements with the subsequent fantasy touches of Pasolini in 1974 and the random horror/fantasy…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Nikitos W (3) on 22 Dec 2007

Marvellously, how this awful gleam could take place in such unfriendly conditions as the Soviet cinematography…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Paavo I (85) on 19 Mar 2008

Absolutely terrible. The witch riding a guy's back and air-surfing in a coffin are so laughable…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Gergely K (144) on 23 Aug 2011

Gogol tÃ¶rtÃ (C)nete nyomÃ¡n lÃ¡tvÃ¡nyos Ã (C)s hangulatos fantasy-horrort hoztak Ã¶ssze az oroszok, gyÃ¶nyÃ¶rÅ± alÃ¡festÅ…

Read Review

Review of Viy (1967)

By Ken T (997) on 27 Sep 2010

A young semenary student has been summoned to say prayers over a recently deceased beautiful girl who is a witch - and the young priest has…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Witchboard (1986)

By Money C (3) on 16 Mar 2008

Oh 80s there was nothing quite like you…

Read Review

Review of The Sentinel (1977)

By Filmgrinder S (1,010) on 02 Jan 2012

Someone sold the lofty goal of riding the Omen/Exorcist satan wave to a Hollywood studio…

Read Review

Review of The Blancheville Monster (1963)

By James H (4,675) on 04 Aug 2008

Old fashioned horror film, not very well acted though and the production is pretty cheap. The art direction is poor. The score is a bit much…

Read Review

Review of Open Graves (2009)

By Don S (1,504) on 15 Mar 2015

Jumanji meets Final Destination if both films were terrible…

Read Review

Review of Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)

By Cody W (333) on 19 Feb 2012

It's fun but lacks having suspense and the creepy feeling the viewers felt when watching the previous film…

Read Review

Review of Out of the Shadows (2017)

By J.r. Southall (44) for Starburst (899) on 09 Nov 2017

There's promise here, but next time around Dee McLachlan needs to work out what kind of story she's telling and stick to the brief, rather…

Read Review

Review of Anne of Green Gables (1985)

By Kurtash C (1) on 14 Mar 2009

I find this stuff mad depressing for some reason…

Read Review

Review of The Gorgon (1964)

By Sean D (816) on 24 Oct 2015

Ugh. That was really boring. Only good in the last ten minutes. Just a bad plot in general that was dragged out…

Read Review

Review of Castle of Blood (1964)

By Brendan A (99) on 30 Sep 2009

One of the less preposterous efforts to redo a Poe story with Poe written in as a character, this Italian-made film sports Barbara Steele,…

Read Review

Review of Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

By Muhammed S (104) on 08 Jul 2013

Completely pointless, unfunny and incoherent. An immensely poor sequel to the fantastic original…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

The Voyeurs

2021

58%19 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

78%1,656 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Viy

1967

74%18 Reviews

Agneepath

2012

64%84 Reviews

Pawn Sacrifice

2015

68%311 Reviews

The Fourth Protocol

1987

62%78 Reviews

The Rewrite

2014

57%139 Reviews

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008

53%562 Reviews

Gorgo

1961

49%34 Reviews

The Booksellers

2020

70%15 Reviews

Nudist Colony of the Dead

1991

40%11 Reviews