Viy

Khoma Brutus, a seminary student, shelters one night with an old woman who turns out to be a witch; he beats her and she changes into a young woman. He is then sent to a remote village to pray for three nights in the church over the body of a rich man's daughter, who is that same witch; she rises from her coffin each night and on the third summons the demon Viy. The film adapts a story by Nikolai Gogol and, according to Graham Rickson in The Arts Desk, was the first horror film produced in the USSR.