The Awakening
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.
Viy
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.