Watched May, 2025.
This movie tries hard to tell a culturally important story but is hard to love. If the story were based on actual Macedonian folklore, this would be an 8, but it's apparently a folklore-ish horror fantasy portraying a pre-industrial Macedonian farm community. The translations of the English subtitles are horrifying ("the man, the eyewater he wants"). The repeated use of human entrails is not simply horror graphics, it is significant to the story, but it makes no logical sense (a basic vampire story just involves drinking blood without the self-mutilation). The soundtrack is subdued and interesting, too bad the "Welcome Happy Morning" hymn is left off the soundtrack album. If you want to skip the horror, The Peasants provides good historical fiction from this time period (in Poland).
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