Time of Darkness (1991)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Wow! Such a good movie.

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I want to warn the people who by any means happened to face this movie.I really regret that I watched it and I will have to get rid of many not-very-pleasant-at-all pictures which got stuck in my mind. I don't understand this urge to show corpses in such details. Maybe that happens because authors didn't have any other tool to influence the level of watcher's adrenalin, but to me it brought only incredible disgusting feeling and I went out from cinema with the clear desire to clean my mind from this watching. And that's not only because of the corpses. I hate speculations on the theme of religion and culture, but when a Russian director does it and in such a shallow way – it's just unbearable. I honestly was trying to find any idea in the story, but unfortunately – didn't manage. Yes, I want to take the responsibility to say that there is no idea there, no philosophy, only the realistic pictures of unrestrained sins and killing. My vote is not "1" (awful) just because of the beautiful girls running all over the screen. Kinda good advertising for Russian brides.But I can't recommend this movie to anyone anyway. It poisons the mind. It is consciousness-murderous.

Never heard of that movie before, but judging from the cover it seemed quite interesting, even though it just cost me 2,99 € (the same price I paid for "Prom Night III", which is considered the worst movie ever to be watched in our dormitory...)A story about a Russian 11th century village, almost torn apart by the struggle between traditional "heathen" cultists and the newly introduced church. After a kind of midsummernight-orgy the dismembered corpse of a village girl is found, nude and raped. The villages' chief claims the deed to be done by a werewolf, the priest declares it a result of heathen practices. Half the village joins a wolf-hunt while the pater organizes a witch-hunt. Only the healer of the village, more an artisan than just a "wise woman" senses the truth which much closer to reality than myth or religion and she therefore ends up as the scapegoat both parties are willing to sacrifice...A nice picture I really enjoyed watching, despite the slow action and the more than obvious plot (completely summarized on the DVD-cover), lacking any unexpected turnouts. Both, my sister and my roommate were pretty bored. I really love how the narration neither takes sides with church nor heathens. The allurement of that movie also lies in its pictures that seem more "natural" than those of any Hollywood-movie. It's starring "real" people, displays a real landscape and uses real dirt instead of paper-mâché-sets and plastic-actors with plastic boobs. Oh, btw, there's a high degree of nudity in that movie... quite aesthetic. All in all a good buy...