Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit, (starring Bugs Bunny) and directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.
This is Chuck Jones' last collaboration with Tedd Pierce and the only one co-directed by Maurice Noble.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a fun website on youtube - What If. The video we've been watching is - What if everyone jumped at once?
Long story short; not much
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1967 Soviet horror film, Viy, directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov and starring Leonid Kuravlyov , and Natalya Varley. In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to seduce him, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. Viy was distributed by Mosfilm, and was the first Soviet-era horror film to be officially released in the USSR. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Viy.
Nikolay Stepanov who plays the demon Viy, was a circus artist. He was cast for his strength, because costume of the creature was extremely heavy.
Demand Euphoria!
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