Forbidden Empire2014
“The truth is in you”
Directed by Oleg Stepchenko
🏆 1 win & 2 nominations total
The premise
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
Horror Vault's take
When an 18th-century European cartographer ventures deep into the Carpathian wilderness, he stumbles upon a remote village that seems to exist outside the known world — and outside reason itself. The tight-lipped inhabitants have built walls against something terrible, but their fear runs deeper than any physical barrier could explain. Drawing on Eastern European folklore and dark fantasy, Forbidden Empire wraps its horror in lush period atmosphere and unsettling mystery. What Green discovers lurking at the edge of this forsaken community will challenge everything his rational, scientific mind believes.
Content: Demonic Imagery, Monster Violence, Dark And Disturbing Folklore Themes
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