is a freelance writer and director who lived in Moscow for many years. He directed the documentary feature Stalin Thought of You.
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
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
is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.
