Film Adaptations and Influence in Popular Culture
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In 1967, the short story was adapted by Georgi Kropachyov and Konstantin Yershov into the film Viy. An updated version with advanced special effects was originally scheduled to be released in 2009 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Gogol's birth. While the first part has been completed, the producers decided to postpone the premiere until the completion of the second part. The 2006 film The Power of Fear (Russian title Ведьма, "The Witch") was a sequel meant to continue the story, with elements of horror similar to The Ring.
Several other works draw on the short story:
- Mario Bava's film Black Sunday is loosely based on "Viy".
- The 1990 Yugoslav film Sveto mesto (A Holy Place) is also based on Nikolai Gogol's short story.
- In the 1978 film Piranha, a camp counselor retells Viy's climactic identification of Khoma as a ghost story.
- One of the boss enemies in La-Mulana is a demon named Viy, who is extremely massive and requires the help of small flying demons in order to open his eye.
Read more about this topic: Viy (story)
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