Forbidden Empire

Forbidden Empire

The truth is in you

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Release Date

1/30/2014

Runtime

128 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Budget

$26,000,000

Revenue

$34,592,118

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A scholar ventures into an isolated, fog-bound village harboring a darkness that runs far deeper than any external threat. The film builds a creeping sense that the real horror isn't what lurks outside the walls, but what the villagers themselves have become.

Mood

Dread-soakedUnsettlingMelancholicParanoid

Themes

CorruptionIsolationFaithIdentity

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

HandheldDesaturatedPainterly

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceBody horror

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