A Holy Place (1990)
aka Sveto mesto
Genre: Drama | Horror
Country: Yugoslavia | Director: Dorde Kadijevic
Language: Serbo-Croatian | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 89mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 1462×1080 – 23.976fps – 3.42gb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181845/
A Holy Place is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story, Viy. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism.
Gogol’s story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. All the while supernatural forces are trying to grab him from the Holy Circle drawn on the church floor. Kadijevic adapts and enriches ‘Viy’ by inventing a new backstory for the witch-girl and her father. The dead girl, Catherine (unwittingly killed in the prologue, while in the shape of a hag), is referred to as a ‘saint’ and her father is a harsh and unpleasant man. Kadijevic departs further from the original story, and introduces an excess of perversity and horror more reminiscent of the Anglo-American gothic than the milder Slavic attempts in a similar mode. Incest is the name of the game here.
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