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Budget. $4.2 million. Box office. $33,899,078. Night Watch[a] is a 2004 Russian urban fantasy supernatural thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Bekmambetov and Laeta Kalogridis. It is loosely based on the 1998 novel The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. It was Russia's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy ...
Viy (Spirit of Evil[1] or Vii, Russian: Вий) is a 1967 Soviet gothic horror fantasy 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 distributed by Mosfilm, and was the first Soviet-era ...
Empire V (Russian: Ампир V, romanized: Ampir V) is a 2023 Russian urban fantasy film directed by Victor Ginzburg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Pelevin, and starring Pavel Tabakov as Rama II, a vampire apprentice, begins training to become a full-fledged vampire. In the film, the image of the goddess Ishtar was copied from ...
Day Watch[ a ] is a 2006 Russian fantasy film written and directed by Timur Bekmambetov. It opened in theatres across Russia on 1 January 2006, the United States on 1 June 2007, and the United Kingdom on 5 October 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast. It is based on the second and the third part of Sergey ...
Night Watch (Russian: «Ночной Дозор») is a fantasy novel by the Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, the first to feature his fictional world of The Others. The book was first published in Russia by AST in 1998. The story revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an ...
Only vampire hunters, like the titular D—a half-vampire, half-human dhampir—can hope to stand up to the vampire’s supernatural might, and in the ‘85 film, D agrees to hunt down a 10,000 ...
Annie Ball, Cahit Irgat, Ayfer Feray. A rarely-seen Turkish film based on the 1928 novel Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Voivode) by Ali Riza Seyfi, which is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel. Both the novel and the film make an explicit connection with the historical Vlad the Impaler.
Wurdulac, also spelled wurdalak, verdilak or vurdulak, is a kind of vampire in the Slavic folklore mythology. Some Western sources define it as a type of "Russian vampire" that must consume the blood of its loved ones and convert its whole family. [1] This notion is based apparently on Alexey K. Tolstoy 's novella The Family of the Vourdalak ...