A new trailer has gone online for director Oleg Stepchenko’s long delayed adaptation of Russian novelist and poet Nikolai Gogol’s Viy, a short story about a philosopher forced to read psalms over the body of an evil witch for three nights in a village overrun by demonic forces.

To survive the ritual, he must draw a circle of protection around himself and not flinch at the horrors that will fall upon him, including the undead witch, flying goblins, and… Viy, a grotesque and powerful demon.

Stepchenko’s Viy appears to retell the classic story, but from the perspective of new protagonist Jonathan Green, a cartographer who stumbles upon a cursed village when he gets lost during a research mission near the Carpathian Mountains.

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