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SPUTNIK: Get Possessed By Slimey Space Creatures In The Official Trailer For Egor Abramenko’s Dark Supernatural Thriller

Egor Abramenko’s feature directorial debut, Sputnik, will get its day in North America on August 14 in select theaters, on digital and cable VOD. IFC Midnight is handling its U.S. distribution with its acquisition from North American sales agents at XYZ Films. The move comes following what would have been its April 16 Russia release ahead of its Midnight section premiere at the 19th Tribeca Film Festival, which is reportedly looking into other avenues for this year’s festivities as the U.S. battles the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival programmer Matt Barone describes the film as follows: Due to her controversial methods, young doctor Tatiana Yurievna (Oksana Akinshina) is on the precipice of losing her medical license. Her career may not be over, though. After she’s recruited by the military, Tatiana is brought to a secure science research facility to assess a very special case, that of Konstantin Sergeyevich (Pyotr Fyodorov), a cosmonaut […]

SPUTNIK Trailer: Your Next Favorite Space Horror Film

Christina Ortega

Space travel has its own sense of wonder: exploring the unknown, going where no man (person) has ever gone before, and finding out if we’re really alone in the universe. It’s all fun and games and excitement — until it isn’t. Russian director Egor Abramenko’s first feature film Sputnik takes viewers to space and back and promises to be full of chills from fear, not excitement. According to Screenanarchy, the …story revolves around a young doctor called in by the military to evaluate a cosmonaut returned from a mission under unusual circumstances … and let’s just say he didn’t exactly return alone. There are no subtitles in the trailer, but you can tell what is going on based on the visuals and the facial expressions. The threat and fear are clearly conveyed. Check it out here: Ooh. I definitely cannot wait to see this film!