![]() ![]() As such stories will, the film creaks its way inevitably towards moral calamity. Shell use every dirty trick to achieve another triumph in her. The impressively amoral protagonist plots to get at the countess by seducing her young ward (Yvonne Mitchell). A once-famed opera soprano thrilled the world, but now only her legend remains. The great Anton Walbrook, so memorable from the works of Michael Powell, plays Captain Herman Suvorin, a Russian officer in St Petersburg who happens upon an elderly lady (Dame Edith Evans, making her film debut in her early 60s) with a diabolical method for winning at cards. This 1949 film has few obvious successors or predecessors. Dickinson was brought on to the project with a few days’ notice and fashioned into it a singular exercise in macabre. It can be seen on tee shirts or even as a tatoo. ![]() It connotes white women with a sexual preference for black men. and all those men that cant get enough of these snow bunnies. But his greatest work must surely be this endlessly spooky, impressively dank take on a Faustian story by Alexander Pushkin. Offical Queen Of Spades Page - This is a room for all the beautiful white women who love the dark skinned men. ![]() The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, his 1939 thriller, invariably gets a mention when discussion turns to football on film. He directed the first (and some say superior) version of Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight. Peter Bradshaw PeterBradshaw1 Wed 02.00 EST Last modified on Thu 01.39 EST A mbition, sin and horror are the keynotes of Thorold Dickinson’s brilliant 1949 melodrama based. I won't post the link here as I don't want to break any rules.Thorold Dickinson is not a name that is often on cineaste’s tongues, but the Bristolian has a secure place in British film history. However, I found a stream that provides closed captions, so if you are having difficulty finding this film just PM me and I will provide a safe link and instructions on how to navigate the site. Navigating sketchy Russian websites to find a stream isn't fun. When four teenagers summon the Queen as a. I ended up having to watch it with a friend who speaks Dutch and German and have him translate it for me the entire time.Īnyways, Queen of Spades isn't too difficult to find online, but finding a version that provides English subtitles is quite difficult. It is said the Queen of Spades gets her energy from reflective objects and anyone who sees her will go insane or die. According to legend, an ominous entity known as the Queen of Spades can be summoned by performing an ancient ritual. I ended up ordering the dvd from a site online with the hopes that the dvd provided English subtitles. The movie is impossible to find online, except for one site that streams it without subtitles, and no site online has subtitles for the film. It is based on an old Dutch legend/ghost story involving a woman who haunts a pond in a forest. One obscure movie I've been wanting to recommend for a long time is a 2014 Dutch Horror film called De Poel (The Pool). ![]() The problem with recommending obscure horror films is that the films themselves can be incredibly difficult to find - even online. In fact, this film feels as though it is a representation of a nightmare - both with the surrealism and the dream-logic of some of the scares. The tone of the movie itself gives off a very sleepy, dreamlike vibe. There are some jumpscares, but the movie tends to rely on tension and surreal imagery to get under your skin. This film certainly isn't original, and it has many many flaws - but for a rare Russian Horror film it is pretty great. The film itself follows a particular girl and her parents coming to terms with the fact that the Queen of Spades is real, and that the girl's friends dying suddenly is because they participated in the ritual with her. 5 Plot edit Opera diva Sofia Mayer after many years of emigration returns to Russia. 4 The picture is about opera singers preparing for a performance in the Queen of Spades. Once you have contacted her, she will not leave until she has either killed you or possessed your body. Queen of Spades ( Russian:, romanized : Dama pik) is a 2016 Russian thriller film directed by Pavel Lungin. She is contacted in a way very similar to Bloody Mary and Candyman, except that you must draw a door on the mirror so that she can leave the mirror world and "come through" to your world. Her "spirit" survived and for decades she has continued to murder anyone who dare attempt to contact her, mainly children. Queen of Spades centers around an entity from Russian folklore: A woman who was a child killer, but was eventually captured, publicly humiliated, and then put to death for her crimes. The film goes by the name Queen of Spades. Last night I discovered a rather obscure Russian Horror film that I ended up being very surprised by. This is my second post to this sub, and first recommendation ever. ![]()
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