Genres

Visitors Review

Cablebot3000 2012-05-23 07:34:13

Disturbing and ucomforable thriller

A teacher by the name of Andrej Evilenko (played by Malcolm McDowell)is fired after he tried to rape one of his young students. This firstscene is truly unsettling and shocking. From there is gets worse whenthis communist man decides he likes to kill. Mr. McDowell does anexcellent, creepy job as a real life serial killer. Now, that beingsaid, I'm not all sure how much of the story is actually real. Itspretty believable though. All this being said, everyone who took partin the movie was great, and the acting was well done. The movie as awhole is good, but also a little too much (well, maybe not to someviewers). The movie is quit graphic and intense, but not to gratuitousso that is good. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in thestory, or anyone in the cast. Other than that though, I'd say its up towhoever if they really wanna see it. I rate this 7/10 (mainly for thesuperb acting). (my rating) Rated R for disturbing and aberrant violentand sexual content, nudity and some language

2012-05-22 13:27:00

Disappointing

This review is from: Evilenko 2 disc deluxe edition (DVD) After watching Citizen X I found this not near as engaging but a different view. Disappointing to say the least.Wouldn't watch again.

Claudio Carvalho 2012-05-13 22:58:49

Disgusting Sick Monster

In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev (Marton Csokas) is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed."Evilenko" is a very impressive movie, based on the true story of a serial-killer from Soviet Union that recalls a darker and scarier Dr. Hannibal Lecter of "The Silence of the Lambs". The first point to highlight in this practically unknown gem is the stunning performance of Malcolm McDowell, who seems to be tailored for evil characters and is amazing in the role of a pedophile cannibal. Marton Csokas is also excellent, performing a persistent and firm investigator involved with the sick deaths and frustrated for not finding the monster. The direction of the promising David Grieco is also magnificent, keeping adequate pace and exposition of the scenes. The music score of the composer Angelo Badalamenti is outstanding as usual. In the end, "Evilenko" is a highly recommended movie that deserves to be discovered by the viewers. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Evilenko"

2012-05-13 11:08:43

Pedophillia & Murder

Evilenko, is based on the true story of a serial killer known as Andrei Chikatilo who was a former member of the soviet union. Malcolm McDowell puts on an excellent portrayl of "Enko" (They changed the name for the slight differences in the film). The director stated that he didn't want to make a documentry. The film covers the last two taboos: Cannibalism & Pedophillia. Therefore as a warning it is a very brutal film. Some may even be repulsed it. But of course this is all a part of the film's honest portrayl of a monster. In my opinion, this film, out of all serial killer films: dahmer, gacy, bundy, gein and manson, was the most gruesome, difficult film to watch of them all. However unlike the others, even though they changed a couple of things, i felt it was the most close to the fact dipiction of a murderer. That and the acting is what makes this film worth watching. The Dvd features are better than most serial killer films because you get a documentry about the real killer and extras.

Egbert 2012-05-08 07:40:01

Does not compare to Citizen X

This is the true story of citizen Chikatilo, a serial killer on theloose in former Russia and the man who brought him in, detective VadimTimorovic Lesiev.McDowell plays his role as a creepy killer very well, but the rest ofthe movie can't keep up with his performance.This story has been told before in the movie Citizen X from directorChris Gerolmo, and in my opinion so much better. Although detectiveLesiev is called Burakov in this version of the story, Stephen Reaplays this role very well. You can feel his frustration fightingagainst a corrupt and unwilling system. The part of Chikatilo is playedby Jeffrey DeMunn and he does a great job. His performance of the warnout factory worker with a deadly secret, is so much more believablethan the monster McDowell portrays in Evilenko.Besides that, Citizen X can support on a great cast (Donald Sutherland,Joss Ackland, Max von Sydow, John Wood) and has something that Evilenkolacks: a good script!

the_wolf_imdb 2012-05-07 22:34:26

Utter crap

I have bought the DVD, because I remembered very powerful movie aboutChekotylo. The problem is that the movie I have remembered was "CitizenX", not "Evilenko". Evilenko is stupid, absolutely surreal movie,classic Italian cheap crap. McDovell tries to save the movie, butscript is too chaotic and unrealistic. The story is not true even iftries to pretend to. The strangest part is the fact the move is boringtoo, which is really strange for mass-murder thriller. Only first 20minutes or so are interesting, but unfortunately the boredom lastsanother 100 minutes! It was so dull I was not been able to watch it tothe end. Well, 2 Euros wasted (at least it was cheap). Spare your timeand money - watch "Citizen X" instead.

MumrikDK 2012-05-04 04:02:03

Don't do it!

Nothing, and I mean nothing, works in this film. The acting, theaccents (you'll repeatedly see actors alternate between a fake Russianaccent and their own, be it British or American), the story telling,etc..When the movie ended the first thing one of the friends I saw it withsaid was "Let's get out of here!" and I couldn't agree more. Evidentlythe same goes for the rest of the audience as most of them left beforethe announced Q&A with the director.The fun we had in the 30 minutes we spent afterwards going through plotholes and inconsistencies almost earns Evilenko a "2"... almost....

2012-05-03 11:53:25

It's ok

This review is from: Evilenko 2 disc deluxe edition (DVD) This movie is a story that was taken from the true crime. It is good but if you want a movie about the crime buy Citizen X. It is very good. Really close to the crime.

2012-05-03 09:10:45

Good dvd:

This review is from: Evilenko 2 disc deluxe edition (DVD) This is one of those movies that keep you on the edge of your seat.It had me saying oh no through out the whole movie. His wife had so much trust in him.....sad!

Johnny Vinther Jensen 2012-05-02 18:33:46

Unwatchable mess with a brilliant Malcolm McDowell.

I saw this movie at the Natfilm-festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. I wasthoroughly unimpressed. Not true, there was actually one good thingabout the movie: Malcolm McDowell. His acting is superb, he can play amaniac like few others and in this movie he is positively chilling. Ialso loved his performance in 'The Company', another horrible moviewith a few good performances. It is sad that he can't find a good movieto invest his considerable talent in. Back to the movie. The movie was presented by the director whoexplained, that he wanted it to be a parable on the collapse ofcommunism and the disillusion, that brought with it. This explains, Ithink, to some extent what went wrong. He tried too hard. The scriptended up being a mishmash of afascination-with-serial-killers-horror-movie and a self-indulgent andtrite piece of symbolism. One of the worst scenes is the interrogationscene, where the investigator confronts Evilenko and "battles with himon his terms". I don't think I have ever seen so many clichés and andso much half-digested pop-psychology forced into such an unnecessarilylong scene. The dialogue is completely unbelievable and it certainlydoesn't help, that it is, for the most part, delivered by utterlyuntalented people. Why the director chose to use Russian actors and dubthem with second-rate voice actors is a mystery. Marton Csokas playswell enough, if a little wooden and the actress playing Evilenko's wifesteals the frame in the few scenes she is in. Other than that the movieis a complete waste of actor wages. In conclusion, I would like to say, that I think this movie gave me anunderstanding for the horror Evilenko's victims must have felt. Icertainly couldn't get out of the cinema fast enough.

Jonny_Numb 2012-04-27 17:02:27

Say it ain't so, Alex!

"Evilenko" is a dramatization of the crimes of Russian pedophile/serialkiller Andrei Chikatilo, and the latest film to join the ranks of DTVfare such as "Ted Bundy," "Ed Gein," and "The Zodiac Killer" (amongothers). Like the aforementioned films, this paints a half-cockedportrait of madness undermined by inadequate production values,embellished details, and a plodding pace (there is no reason for thisto crawl towards nearly 2 hours). Writer-director David Grieco bringssome flair to the images and storytelling, and Malcolm McDowell isfinely awkward in the title role, but the overall structure isincredibly mundane: like other films of this type, we have policemen onthe trail of a mad killer; mad killer kills; police arrive at crimescene(s); killer is caught; killer is killed. Angelo Badalamenti, bestknown for his work with David Lynch, composed the generic,undistinguished score. "Evilenko" has the benefit of McDowell, butprecious little else--overall, it's a bland, boring experience.

Jenna Gray 2012-04-27 06:19:05

Depressing

It's such a depressing movie. When I was finished watching my mood hadchanged. I felt down in every sense of the word. I had the exact samefeeling when I had watched Citizen X. There's something so sad aboutAndrei Chikatilo combined with former Soviet Union I just wanna screamout in pure agony! It's not bad but if you've seen Citizen X (they arevery alike) you don't need to see this, and if you want to stay in ahappy mood you shouldn't either! But if you don't care about that, goahead and watch. It's not a bad movie, it keeps you focused the wholetime. But it's very disturbing. It's roles like this (Andreis) that canactually make you hate the actor behind it, because he did such a goodjob playing Andrei that I don't feel like seeing his face ever again!(It's a compliment but not necessarily a good thing)

mrhankey1 2012-04-26 12:05:11

great movie with excellent acting

Macolm Mcdowell did a great job in this movie as Andrej RomanovicEvilenko. His one of the best actors, but he played only in a few verygood movies. In this and in A Clockwork Orange, but that was ages ago.Also Marton Csokas played very good as the police officer. Do not thinkthis movie wasn't good, due to the bad reviews. Watch this movieyourself and you'll see it's very good. There are now like 160 votes onthis movie because nobody knows it. IT IS as good as citizen X, Verydifferent story, and a much better plot. The director, David Grieco,did a great job in working out the characters. You know more about thekiller and about the police men, then in citizen X. Go to see thismovie and you really enjoy it. 8/10

Jason 2012-04-26 00:32:52

Malcolm McDowell rocks

I think this movie departs from reality - but McDowell held my interest throughout the movie. It's a fascinating and horrific story of an evil man and McDowell kicked ass. Some of the lesser characters were a little weak - but I enjoyed this suprising movie.

2012-04-23 06:38:18

Complete Nonsense and Propaganda

I was awaiting this film for over a year and it finally made it to the States. I was over joyed to buy it. After I finished watching the movie, I thought to myself " Did I get the right movie?" Truth is: This movie has nothing to do with Andrei Chikatilo. All and I mean all facts and incidents are incorrect. The film is not true to Chikatilo's real lifestyle. The acting is fake and embarrasing to watch. Malcolm McDowell looks like Adolf Hitler, not Chikatilo. The director deviates this movie so far from reality, it's sad to give him credit for it. Oooh and by the way, if you want to see Malcolm get naked together with a cop and have the cop jerk him off, While yelling " Look how hard your prick is," please feel free to buy this movie. Talk about hardcore facts about Andrei Chikatilo jerking cops off on the side.Waste of time, money and complete disappointment. You want the true Chikatilo, see Citizen X instead.

Paolo Tramannoni 2012-04-22 15:36:53

A great, disturbing movie

Evilenko is one of those rare moments in the history of cinema, where a(nearly) perfect mix of elegance and perversion succeeds in producingan alarming portrait of the world in which we live. Acting, screenplay,direction, music and scenes, all contribute to create a realistic, darkatmosphere of decadence and inner horror. The story tells this issomewhere in Russia during the Gorbacev era. But we can locate iteverywhere - everywhere there is a school, and there is a hierarchyready to cover even the worse crimes. Malcom McDowell creates one ofthe most credible, disgusting and disturbing monsters ever seen onscreen. Not fascinating as Hannibal Lecter, his clear characteralteration is not enough to be aware of his pernicious attitude. Thisis the first movie of Grieco: not bad as a debut! The movie has notbeen really distributed in Italy, and I see the average score in IMDbis very low. I understand this is not the usual investigation movie, soit's hard to be accepted. However, I found it to be an important movie,if not really a milestone.

GEORGI 2012-04-19 19:37:53

A real story

I'm sorry to disappoint you my friend but the whole story is real,real cold and brutal.In fact if there were more visual scenes of violence the movie i think would be too hard to watch but this is European type of cinema it relays on the plot mainly not the visuals.And to the people that are not familiar with this story-it really happened that way,Chikatilo was really a man who we couldn't even imagine,unique and horrifying he manipulated his victims so well that it seems like science-fiction when you see it in the movie,and there are even theories that the people he killed are even more than proved and that he kept the names with a hope of a smaller sentence.An interesting fact is that in the moment of his execution(he was supposed to be shot in the head) he screamed "Don't shot me in the head the Japanese would like to buy my brain" and they really offered a big price for it later.But still they shot him.In the head.If his brain was studied who knows what things we could learn from it?!?

imdb-646 2012-04-19 09:37:59

Trash!!! A complete piece of garbage.

I started watching this movie because the story of Chikatilo is onethat is horrible as well as interesting.On the DVD box it said the real story of Citizen X. Well, those whohave seen the movie Citizen X will probably agree with me that thisversion is completely garbage. Not only is this movie stupid, theauthor of the book, who is also the director of the movie, just made aridiculous story. The real "monster of Rostov" was Andrei Chikatilo and not AndreiEvilenko. And the policeman was Viktor Burakov and not Vadim TimurovicLesiev.Don't read the book by David Grieco, but read the true story, writtenby Robert Cullen.

Lee Eisenberg 2012-04-18 04:02:36

Is this man more famous than I realize?

Until I spotted "Evilenko" at the DVD store, I'd never heard of the manportrayed (Evilenko wasn't his real name). But it turns out that he wasthe Soviet Union's most famous serial killer. Andrey Evilenko (MalcolmMcDowell) was a teacher in 1980s Kiev who tried to rape one of hisstudents and got fired. From there, he started murdering children andwomen, all the while masquerading as someone defending communism.You gotta understand that this guy was downright sick, as the moviemakes clear. I guess that this movie isn't a masterpiece, but it does agood job showing him going crazy. Probably recommendable, if only toshow a certain part of history.

maxbrinck 2012-04-17 19:14:38

mcdowell is evilenko

Evilenko is made extremely well, I've seen it twice now on DVD andMalcolm McDowell's towering characterization of the real Russian serialkiller should be recognized as an artistic achievement. No, it's notCitizen X and that's a good thing. Where Citizen X reads like aplodding police investigation, Evilenko comes across as a searingreading of a killer's personal hell. David Greico has written anddirected a completely interesting and thorough examination ofEvilenko's mind and motivations. While the killings are handleddispassionately, the victims aren't one dimensional, we feel for thembut Grecio never sentimentalizes them. Definitely a cut above theaverage serial killer film.