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Jan 23, 2021 · Film Review: Sputnik (2020) Damien Riley 01/23/2021 Film Reviews. SYNOPSIS: The lone survivor of an enigmatic Russian spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. REVIEW: Most horror fans will agree, I can say based on my travels, that space and aliens are excellent themes for horror movies.
„Sputnik“ hat tatsächlich einen eigenen Kniff, der - letzten Endes keinen echten Unterschied macht. Statt saftigem Horror nötigt die hölzerne Prämisse dem Drehbuch leider überwiegenden Leerlauf ab, in dem sich die Charaktere lieber gegenseitig nen Knödel ans Ohr labern statt schreiend durch viel zu enge Gänge zu rennen.
Aug 14, 2020 · Conveniently sharing the name with Russia's recently announced Covid vaccine, Sputnik may actually be one of those rare movies which will benefit from a delayed release, and is an impressively atmospheric indie debut. Originally scheduled for release back in April, Egor Abramenko's directorial debut Sputnik was just another Covid film casualty ...
Aug 14, 2020 · Aug 17, 2020. The new Russian horror film Sputnik whipsaws between suggested horror and schlock so furiously that it turns inconsistency into a virtue. It’s a creepy chamber drama that morphs regularly into an effects-laden ick-fest. But transformation is in the film’s DNA. Read More.
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Sputnik: Directed by Egor Abramenko. With Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev. The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
While it certainly owes a great deal to Ridley Scott’s classic film Alien, Sputnik is its own creature, brimming with a gloomy, Soviet-era menace and a wonderfully slow-burn buildup. But once the blood starts to fly, this Russian horror film drowns in its own vat of hemoglobin. Sputnik revels in its grotesque excesses and wallows in its own gore.
Sputnik bucks that tradition of pastiche and delivers something fresh to the interplanetary monster-movie canon. And with its massive scale and brutal carnage, this sci-fi gem signals the arrival of a major new voice: first-time Russian director Egor Abramenko.
