VIY: The Lost Tapes

...piece of rubbish.

Ostensibly, a 'found footage' work. This just allows the whole team to get out of responsibility for camerawork, acting, directing, just about everything.

The original Viy is a rare classic of Russian cinema; this is about as far away in quality as it is possible to imagine.

The original is an imaginative tour de force; this is little more than amateur exploitation that would have been rejected as a film school project.

The original story is by Nikolai Gogol. The first rat to be smelled is within a minute, when the wooden introduction (given by person unknown) announces (and mispronounces) this story, possibly by a woman called... Nichola Goggle.

Everyone involved should be ashamed, and made to work in supermarkets, stacking shelves, and turn over the money to charities supporting real film talent.