The film "Queen of Spades: The Black Rite". Reviews, description, actors and roles

In the fall of 2015, the horror film The Queen of Spades appeared on the wide screens of Russia. The Black Rite. " The project collected mostly positive comments. What is this film with a promising title, why is it worth watching and has it really been learned in Russia how to shoot horror?

The creators of the film

A film in the genre of horror "The Queen of Spades. Black rite ", critics' reviews about which 60% consist of positive reviews, was filmed by the little-known young director Svyatoslav Podgaevsky. In 2012, he had already produced a full-length thriller "Possession 18". Two short films, directed by the director in 2006 and 2004, were also released in the horror genre.

Behind the camera was Anton Zenkovich, who worked as an operator on such projects as "Champions", "Women versus Men" and "Pregnant."

Music for horror was written by Pavel Ruminov. Ruminov is not a professional composer, but is considered a professional screenwriter and director. In 2016, the picture "Status: Free" with Daniel Kozlovsky in the lead role, which Ruminov directed, is expected to appear on the screens.

Production of the film was made by the company Enjoy Movies. And the project was produced by George Malkov ("Bloody Lady Bathory") and Vladimir Polyakov ("Mamy-3").

The play of actors and reviews. The film "Queen of Spades. Black Rite »: Alina Babak

In the center of the story is the story of several teenagers, who decided to hold a black rite for the sake of a joke and evoke the specter of a spy lady. They commissioned this ceremony by the youngest of their company, the twelve-year-old Anna. After the rite to children, no one is. However, after a couple of days they begin collective hallucinations - all except Ani. To rave the Queen of Spades, the girl begins much later, when under mysterious circumstances a guy from their company dies - Matvei.

As a result, it turns out that the Queen of Spades is hunting for Anna. Her frightened parents also begin to notice the supernatural activity in their house. The exorcist comes too late, when the demon has already moved to Anna. Destroy it is obtained only by forcing the girl to survive a clinical death. And although everything ends with the expulsion of the ghost, it is not completely clear to the end whether it was really possible to destroy Dame in the finale of the painting "The Queen of Spades. The Black Rite. "

Reviews of the game Alina Babak, who played the role of Ani - positive. It's amazing how the young girl managed to play the role of demon possessed by the protagonist so plausibly?

Igor Khripunov as Ani's father

In the movie "Queen of Spades. Black Rite ", reviews of which were published at the end of September in many newspapers and magazines, the role of the father of the main character was played by Igor Khripunov. The actor can be seen in many famous films - "Burnt by the Sun 2", "Kill Stalin", "Spider".

In the horror film, Hrapunov starred for the first time, but apparently this work inspired him, because as early as 2016 the actor will again appear in such a film - this time it is a project of Sergei Ginzburg's "Ghouls".

According to the plot of "The Queen of Spades", the hero Khripunova at first does not believe that someone really is following his daughter. But as soon as Ani's father assigns himself a tablet of the boy who died at the hands of the Queen's Queen of Spades, the ghost begins to appear to him. It is the character Khripunov who first realizes that jokes with demons are bad, and calls for the help of an experienced exorcist.

Vladimir Seleznev as an exorcist

Given the reviews and reviews, the film "Queen of Spades. Black rite "can be considered held. And in this there is merit and the cast of actors.

Vladimir Seleznev got a difficult role: a former doctor whose son died at the hands of the Queen of Spades. After this tragic event, the hero of Seleznev went deep into the world of magic and began to help expel the evil spirits to those who asked him about it. Playing this character, you can skip to unnecessary pathos. But Vladimir Seleznev successfully managed to pass this "sharp threshold" and make sure that his hero was believed. In the finale of the film, the actor's hero is ready to sacrifice his life to save Anna, which he does.

The actor also received respect for the horror genre and in one of the interviews said that he was ready to play in the future a vampire, a werewolf - in short, everyone he could be invited to play by the directors. But he prefers all the same to werewolves.

Other performers of roles

There are many more characters in this movie. "The Queen of Spades. Black Rite ", reviews of which sound promising, has become a kind of an actor's experiment for Eugenia Loza. The actress can be seen in melodramas, but the horror film for her is something out of the ordinary. Nevertheless, Loza fit into the cast of actors, and in 2016, we should expect another similar film with her participation - "The Witch".

The roles of Anna's friends who also took part in the black rite went to the young actors Sergei Pokhodaev (Closed School), Valeria Dmitrieva (Chernobyl Exclusion Zone) and Valentina Sadiki (Mystery of Egor).

"The Queen of Spades. Black Rite »: rating, reviews

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky can be proud of his work, because his film is rated IMDb 5.60. This is a good result for the Russian horror film, which is also withdrawn with the involvement of a small budget. With an investment of 45 million rubles at the box office, it was possible to raise approximately 148 million rubles ($ 2,228,155).

"The Queen of Spades. Black rite "reviews of the audience received mostly positive. The percentage of negative reviews is about one-fourth of the total number of viewers who expressed their opinion.

Complaints cause the image of the Queen of Spades, created through computer graphics: viewers believe that it was possible to come up with something more original. But criticizing computer graphics, it is necessary to take into account the negligible budget of the picture.

Also in the horror of Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, the audience saw "pieces" of the famous horror films that had appeared in the West before. But even if some moments in the picture of Podgaevsky can resemble other films, so does not this all suffer from the cinematography? In any film, you can find the moments that you met somewhere else. And as for "plagiarism," it was not. Just because the story of the Queen of Spades has never been screened before.

In short, Russian horror films are finally getting some form and "gloss". And if the directors do not stop there and move forward, then the flowering of this genre in Russia is not far off.