The Widow – Die Legende der Witwe (2020)

The Widow – Die Legende der Witwe: Directed by Ivan Minin. With Viktotiya Potemina, Anastasiya Gribova, Margarita Bychkova, Ilya Agapov. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades.The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.

“This is a good movie that is deeply wounded by terrible dubbing. It wouldu0026#39;ve been much better off subtitled. The dubbing alters the mood and turns what, no doubt, is a creepy movie oozing atmosphere into a much lighter adventure. For example a minor role of a young boy sounds like a cartoon mouse and there are instances of laughing or other non-word utterances like oohs and ahs that sound on!y cartoony. But itu0026#39;s not just these instances but the entire dialogue that is ruined. It comes off sounding more like an episode of Scooby Doo and less like the tense and atmospheric folk horror that is is.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA subtitled version of this movie would gain at least a star and possibly two but as it stands now its a real stretch to give it the six I did. I do think itu0026#39;s potentially a great little movie and I tried hard to ignore the laughable dubbing when rating it.”