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The elements of horror and Thriller in the Soviet kinofantastike

It is difficult, of course, to associate the Soviet cinema fantasy with such a thing as horror, but it did – albeit in fragments, but it happened. And sometimes the combination of fantasy and horror was generally obvious. Although rare, but it was, and we certainly can’t pass up this exciting topic. Many believe that Soviet fiction is supposedly “the amphibian Man” or “His name was Robert,” and late or “Youths in the universe” or “Through thorns to the stars”. The concept of “fiction Thriller” the Soviet filmmakers never really complained, and yet, in this genre, filmed a lot of remarkable things, which in itself is a fact is just amazing. And here is the first and perhaps the most amazing example of a film which few people remember.

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Appeared in the forest misty shroud attracts people’s attention and cause the visions of the past. Young scientist Lomov (Leo Circular) dealing with the study of the mysterious walls, believes this phenomenon is a message to a distant civilization and looking for ways to communicate with her. Inside the spherical wall, disappearing and appearing with a certain frequency and representing a powerful elektrostaticheskie charge, is a research station. Lomov worked there for three months. The boss sends another Lomov, Andrew to replace him in the post because Lomov was drawn to science fiction: he believes that the wall produced by an alien intelligence, and perhaps, the wall itself is a sentient alien. Together with Andrei Lomov goes girlfriend, Lena (Tatiana Lavrova), and on the way joins Sergeant Valera (Andrei Mironov). Valera was sent to the inspected locator “criminally” broken Cart.

The locator is broken here is how. With a locator Lomov passed into the wall of the elementary symbols, hoping that the wall will react. She really reacted, causing hallucinations of the operator of the locator. The characters in the movie will feel the hallucinogenic effect of the wall. Valera, a former merchant seaman, draw the ship and send the image to the wall, then instantly appear on your ship in the middle of the ocean, two years ago, in fur hat and coat. Of water pulled out a strange, exhausted traveler who is telling the crew about loneliness, and solitude not only in the ocean, but all over the world, and then Valera presented this way: “If you want, consider that I am a Martian”… and go further drift in the ocean. When the “coming release”, Valera believes in Martians. Lena will also be irresistibly drawn to the wall as Andrew. They will visit various points in my past, at different points in space. But the people with whom they will communicate, even if it’s familiar to people, will behave weird… Definitely, a special symbolic language trying to speak a mysterious wall! In the end, the world community, journalists from all over the world, to ask Soviet scientists: so what is this wall? And the Soviet scientists will not find the answer. Because the answer every man must find within himself. But for this we need personally to make friends with the wall. And which contact with the wall, if the USSR itself was then surrounded by a mysterious wall called “iron curtain”? — silently asking the creators of the film. /A mysterious wall, 1967-year/.

Here is the first Soviet sci-Fi Thriller, only few people know and remember this film too he scares the Soviet cinema-officials as its theme, far from the principles of socialist realism and a lot of years, almost lying on the shelf.

Go ahead. The second is a real fantastic our Thriller — “the Silence of Dr. Evans,” the 1973 year. The film is about the tragic contact earthlings with an alien civilization, far advanced not so much in technical as in moral and spiritual terms.

Among the passengers crashed over the North Atlantic liner is a contender for the Nobel prize, Dr. Martin Evans, working on the problem of extending human life. He and several other passengers are rescued by aliens from the planet Oriana. Between first contact and the doctor convinces them to open up to the world and to help him in his work — extending the life of the people. But the unexpected attack of a military aircraft and the death of one of the aliens change their plans. To the conclusion about impossibility of contact the aliens come almost immediately, only one woman-alien Orans do not lose hope. When the last conversation between the messengers of another civilization explain Evenso that awaits the morally immature humanity, if scientist could bring his research on the “elixir of immortality” to the end. They refuse to help technology people of the planet on which the force of arms largely exceeds the force of morality, and erase the surviving passengers of the plane memory. Evans remains the only one who remembers what happened. He returns to the human world, but his memory keeps conversations with strangers. Faced with a problem of moral choice, Evans refuses to continue his research on immortality. It tries to keep Oranta and they are “under the hood” of the security services.

If you want to question my word about the fact that this is Thriller, review the scene where the plane with the passengers, suffering a crash, rescued by aliens, but the passengers are still in total disbelief — alive or dead, and some of them decide to enter the strange something in the end… Hollywood thrillers rest.

Well, I guess the title of a fantastic Thriller from the famous movie “Hotel dead mountaineer” (1979 year) to challenge, no one will. Saw the film and loved it, and love it as a reference to Soviet reading of the genre, almost everything.

Same thing with the famous “Inquiry of pilot Pirks” (1979 year); well, who does not remember the famous scene with the hands coming off of Android? The film is a rare example of consistency in the style of a Thriller from the first to the last scene in the Soviet cinema, though very rare example.

In “Stellar inspector” (1980 year) for the first time in Soviet cinema appears a zombie theme, and although the film, unfortunately, turned out stylistically uneven, it has a very tense and interesting moments that will later be developed in subsequent films of this genre.

“Through thorns to the stars” (1980 year) — this, of course, pure science fiction, but it is very interesting to show elements of horror; this, of course, a child so scared me the scene with the poisoning of the source from which these nightmarish lost his mind Descency in identical white masks surround Niyy, ready to devour her, and, of course, the biomass.

And then there were the victims of an experiment in humanizing, horrific autarky — “Day of wrath” (1985 year), turned into a zombie crew of the ship “Dolphin’s Cry” (1986 year), alien technology, which threatened destruction to the population of the whole world — “the Curse of snakes valley” (1987 year).

And finally, the last film in the filmography of the Soviet kinofantastiki — “the witches Cave” (1990 year), where progressista base of earthlings have been subjected to destruction and extermination of a wild population of a distant planet.

Filmography of Soviet science fiction thrillers:

— Loss of sensation 1936

— The secret of eternal night 1957

— Mysterious wall 1967

The silence of Dr. Evans 1973

Hotel dead mountaineer 1979

Star inspector 1980

— The invisible man 1984

— The day of wrath 1985

Creek Dolphin 1985

— The hunting of the dragon 1985

— Curse of snakes valley 1987

— Veld 1987

— New Yankee in king Arthur’s court 1988

— The thirteenth Apostle 1987

— The end of eternity 1988

— Hard to be a God 1989

— Dungeon witches 1990

Mediation 1990

The most terrible episodes in the Soviet kinofantastike:

Robots kill its Creator — “Death sensation”

— Passengers after the plane crash included in something incomprehensible at the end, “Silence of Dr. Evans”

— Coming off the hands of the Android overload — “Inquiry of pilot Pirks”

— The death of the alien “Hotel dead mountaineer”

— The mutation of the scientist — “Green doll”

— Poisoning the water source to the Dessaix, a riot of biomass — “Through thorns to the stars”

— The destruction of the cosmic brain of Toboso — “Stellar inspector”

— Black marks, the passage of the astronauts in the valley of lightning — “lunar rainbow”

— The appearance Tarkov — “Day of wrath”

— Battle among themselves poisoned by the virus of hatred of aliens — “Purple ball”

— Mutation Brecher, passage through an alien cave, the serpent-guardian — “the Curse of snakes valley”

— The devouring lions of parents — “Veld”

— Pass on to an abandoned city on Mars astronaut — “the Thirteenth Apostle”

Bloody executions and insanity on the ground of violence — “Hard to be God”

— The destruction of the base of earthlings progressors savages — “the witches Cave”

— Many episodes of this film is very scary, but I want to highlight the episode initiated when a mother leaves her daughter in the dirt — “Mediator”

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