Werewolf Hour

Werewolf Hour
Directed byIgor Shevchenko
Written bySergey Chetvertkov
Vadim Ermolin
Starring
CinematographyAleksandr Lobeev
Music byArtemiy Artemiev
Production
company
Tonis
Release date
  • June 1990 (1990-06)
Running time
87 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Werewolf Hour (Russian: Час оборотня, romanized: Chas oborotnya) is a 1990 Soviet horror film directed by Igor Shevchenko.[1]

The film was considered lost for over 30 years.[1][2][3]

Plot

50 year old journalist Kovalev finally gets the chance to become the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Not wanting to tempt fate, the hero turns to the party organizer for support. And then something unexpected happens, Kovalev's ankle is bitten by a dog, and he becomes a werewolf. Turning into a terrible dog at night, Kovalev has been prowling the city ever since and instilling fear in his readers. Policeman Vasily, the son of an unfortunate journalist, is entrusted to find and neutralize the beast.[1]

Cast

Critical response

According to a columnist for Darker Magazine, Shevchenko's film is distinguished by a gloomy atmosphere and an unsettling soundtrack in the spirit of Dario Argento's Suspiria, as well as sexual scenes unusual for Soviet cinema and special effects of the main character's transformation.[6]

Film critic Alexander Shpagin wrote in the Iskusstvo Kino in 1992: Werewolf Hour a typical example of Russian horror. An almost documentary recreated environment of a small provincial town, where life seems to be like life. But little by little, you are seized by a state of anxiety, woven from a disintegrated way of life, general anger, total uselessness. As a result, the hero turns into an ominous werewolf dog, as if sublimating with this gesture all the vileness of life here.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c Werewolf Hour Archived 2022-04-27 at the Wayback Machine at the KinoPoisk
  2. ^ Феликс Кривенцов (2021-04-28). "Утерянный советский хоррор «Час оборотня»: найден, отреставрирован, уже на ЗУ!". HorrorZone. Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  3. ^ Алексей Холодный, Александр Поздеев, Алексей Петров (2022-08-31). Русский хоррор. Litres. ISBN 9785044619128.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Михаил Пахоменко: «Я человек несомневающийся»". 2010-06-23. Archived from the original on 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  5. ^ "Час оборотня. Госфильмофонд России". Archived from the original on 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  6. ^ "Клыки и партбилет". 2021-10-10. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  7. ^ Час оборотня. 2021-05-04. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2023-03-28.

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