"Dead Daughters" to haunt Moscow

Director Pavel Ruminov presents his first full-length feature film “Dead Daughters” set to start on February 1. The movie is based on a Japanese horror film but set in the environment of modern Moscow.

Pavel Ruminov doesn't have any professional education. In his home city of Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, he worked in a video store and watched thousands of movies there. Pavel says Hitchcock, Kubrick and Spielberg were his “universities.”

Later he moved to Moscow, becoming a successful clip maker.

Throughout the whole movie the camera is never still for a moment, and thus the viewers feel they're part of the ongoing events. In the best traditions of a horror movie something wicked and terrible is always lurking just around the corner. Eyes are wide with fear.

“I expected that it would not be possible to achieve the quality of American film-makers. Their films may not be clever, but are always done flawlessly,” says the young director.

Mr Ruminov had a big enough budget to create high quality FX, but decided not to. It was a challenge to create suspense using the actors' talent and not computer graphics.

It is said that the production company which created the U.S. versions of “Grudge” and “The Ring” is already planning to do a remake of “Dead Daughters”.

But for Muscovites, the film, which set in the well-know streets of Russia's capital, may have a peculiar interest all of its own.