KEVIN McNEER

is a freelance writer and director who lived in Moscow for many years. He directed the documentary feature Stalin Thought of You.

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 proposals in the USSR scowled at the genre as catering to base instincts and superstition.

August 6, 2024

An intriguing slice of Gothic psychological horror, She Will follows Veronica Ghent, an aging, high-maintenance, pill-popping ex–movie star recovering from a double mastectomy.

July 19, 2022

An intriguing slice of Gothic psychological horror, She Will follows Veronica Ghent, an aging, high-maintenance, pill-popping ex–movie star recovering from a double mastectomy.

BY MICHAEL KORESKY  |  June 13, 2022

Katie Small

is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.