Four strangers, one villa, and a murder ritual from 1897 — Polish cinema's most underrated nightmare.
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
Cinematography
Eclipse sequences that feel genuinely cursed.
Score
Electronic dread that predates Carpenter clones.
Acting
Władysław Kowalski's Selin: mesmerizing, pathetic, terrifying.
Director
Jacek Koprowicz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Poland's martial law period, the film's trapped-in-time structure critics read as covert political allegory.
The eclipse was real — production delayed months to shoot during the 1984 total solar eclipse over Poland, no VFX.
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