Prikosnoveniye (1992)

Prikosnoveniye (1992)
aka: Contact
Director: Albert S. Mkrtchyan
Cast: Aleksandr Zuev, Maryana Polteva, Vsevolod Abdulov
Description: A detective investigating a series of suspicious suicides realizes too late he might not be dealing with an organized crime group of hypnotists as he first believed...

A low-budget supernatural murder mystery filmed with a bare minimum of homemade special effects succeeds brilliantly in creating a truly inhuman, otherworldly atmosphere you won't want to experience again in a hurry.

Slow paced Russian psychological ghost story, when a mother and her child are found dead from a suspected murder then suicide. An investigator tries to uncover the truth behind the incident, only things arn't as clear as what they at first seemed, and his leads start to follow suite and commit suicide, can he help her sister and daughter from the same fate.

Prikosnoveniye really outshines its clear low budget restraints, thanks greatly to its grown up somber tone and thought provoking story, it features one of the most unhollywood endings I've ever seen. Recommended but as far as I can tell it never got a release outside of Russia, so unless your fortunate enough (like I was) to stumble over a fansubbed version or actually speak Russian you'll find it hard to fully appriecate.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 8 out of 10]
[Deathcount 13]
[Gorequota 2/10]

Themes Included: Suicide ● Detective ● Spooky Blind Man
Ghosts ● Funerals ● Afterlife ● Fisheye Lens ● Cemetary