is a freelance writer and director who lived in Moscow for many years. He directed the documentary feature Stalin Thought of You.
Leningrad, 1938. The Stalinist purges are in full swing, and the secret police have set up shop in an appropriated Tsarist-era palace, all gold leaf and chandeliers, its parquet floors spread thick...
November 14, 2025
I recently visited Queen Hatshepsut, the model for the mummy in The Awakening and the novel it’s based on: Bram Stoker’s wild horror/fantasy The Jewel of Seven Stars.
November 9, 2024
In 1966, two Moscow film students pitched a horror feature based on a classic Slavic witch tale, Nikolai Gogol’s Viy (1833). The khudsovety (artistic committees) that evaluated film...
August 6, 2024
is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.
