Ilya Muromets Boris Karloff puckish elves

puckish elves

Mark Kermode on Breathless

Twins of Evil is presented here in a High Definition transfer from the original film elements

Packed with gothic tropes

makes its home video premiere with this stunning presentation from Synapse Films

Ilya Muromets Boris Karloff puckish elvesLegendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushkos sweeping, visual F X filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three headed fire breathing dragons. The film stars Boris Andreyev as the bogatyr (warrior) Ilya, a mythic figure in the Kyivan Rus culture that pre dated both modern Ukraine and Russia (much of the films action is set in Kyiv, and