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Today I'll show you a fantasy-horror film: "Gogol, part 1, The Beginning!"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie starts with Gogol, a young judicial clerk gifted with supernatural power.
Gogol needs to write a report about a woman who is murdered; but he cannot focus because
he's terrified of corpses and blood.
After a while, a well-known detective arrives to help them with the case.
Suddenly, Gogol suffers from seizures and visions of how the woman was killed; then
he unconsciously writes words on the paper.
As the detective and his fellow investigator exchange views, Gogol interrupts them, saying
that the victim knows the killer.
the detective is confused by what Gogol said, so he asks for the crumpled paper, where he
wrote the words, Volcano, Cross, and Lamb.
the detective analyzes the clues, and finds out the word "Volcano" is the name of the
woman's horse.
so they summon her coachman, who is also her servant.
The servant says that he's a Christian, so the detective asks for his "cross".
However, he's hesitant to give it.
the detective grabs it from him, then shows Gogol the cross-shaped scratch mark on the
woman's palm.
the detective then concludes that while the servant was strangling the woman, she grabbed
his cross necklace, which left a mark on her palm.
He also concludes that he secretly likes the woman, and calls her "Lamb".
Then the servant cries endlessly like a baby.
He admits that he's madly in love with the woman, so he wasn't able to control himself,
when he found out that she'll marry someone for money, instead of his hormones.
Finally, the detective congratulates everyone as he declares that the case is closed.
It turns out, Gogol has a supernatural power, wherein during his seizure, he sees visions
that could help solve a crime.
Before heading home, Gogol and his servant go to a shop to buy all the copies of his
books.
then they burn them at home.
Gogol is a frustrated writer.
He's offended by the critic's criticism of his first book, so he ends up buying and burning
them.
The next morning, the detective visits Gogol to praise him for doing a great job in their
last case, and to inform him that he'll go to investigate the mysterious murders of some
women in a province.
Gogol expresses his desire to accompany the detective, thinking that he might be of help
since he's from that province.
Without hesitation, the detective invites him.
On their way, Gogol sees a very beautiful woman riding a Ferrari horse, that disappears
in the woods.
Soon they arrive at their destination, where they are warmly welcomed by local officials.
The chief of police even offers them a place to stay; but the detective declines because
he prefers to stay in a hotel.
the detective gets furious later, because the local officials didn't follow the order
to keep the dead body in an ice cellar; so he commands them to dig it up immediately
for investigation.
Later on, a woman guides them to the hotel where they will stay.
Afterward, they study the record of the cases, and conclude that the horseman is the killer
because he's always seen at the crime scene.
Thereafter, the detective starts to examine the victim's body.
It seems like her heart was severed by a doctor or a butcher, because it was perfectly done.
Gogol feels uncomfortable, so he goes out to breathe some fresh air.
Unfortunately, he loses consciousness when a Ferrari carriage hits him.
He dreams that the detective is removing his organs while he's in a coffin.
Moments later, the beautiful woman he saw in the woods earlier, appears again.
He then regains consciousness, and sees the beautiful woman named Lisa, who's living in
a mansion with her rich husband.
She's the woman that Gogol saw in the woods and also, the owner of the carriage that accidentally
hit him.
That night, Gogol eats with Lisa and her husband.
After a short while, Lisa suffers from unknown pain, so her husband puts a small bottle on
the table.
Lisa takes it and then leaves.
Gogol worries about Lisa, but her husband assures him that everything is fine, and Lisa
just forgot to drink her medicines.
It's getting late, so Gogol bids goodbye.
As a courtesy, Lisa's husband gives him a Ferrari horse to ride back to the horse motel.
In the woods, because of the horseman's presence, the horse runs uncontrollably, causing Gogol
to hit the windmill blade, then fall to the ground.
After a while, a woman named Oksana, the miller's daughter, arrives.
She sees that Gogol is terrified.
so to calm him, she offers him to drink some milk tea at home.
While drinking tea, Gogol warns Oksana to be careful, because the horseman has already
killed three women.
But he suddenly loses consciousness, as Oksana mentions that the horseman has not just killed
three women, but many!
It's revealed that Oksana puts sedatives in his tea to put him to sleep.
The next morning, Gogol wakes up with mud on his feet, wondering how he's able to go
back to the hotel.
He immediately tells the detective about last night's incident; so the detective asks a
woman in the hotel if there's a windmill near the area.
but she hesitantly answers that it was gone a long time ago.
The woman looks uneasy, as if she's hiding something from them.
Instantly, Gogol, the detective, and local officials go to the windmill.
Gogol is confused because the windmill working just fine last night, is now broken.
However, he sees his lost coat on the ground, which intensifies his belief that it wasn't
a dream.
Afterward, one of the officials reveals that thirty years ago, a drowned, good-looking
woman was found dead in the river near the windmill.
He also adds that during that time, lots of women were murdered as well.
the detective is very disappointed, because they didn't tell him that the same pattern
of killings had already happened thirty years ago.
While the detective and Gogol are talking, Lisa arrives on a horse.
She's extremely worried about Gogol because the horse he used that night, has returned
full of thorns and scratch marks.
After a while, Gogol is overjoyed to know that Lisa loves his books.
She even encourages him to continue his passion for writing.
It's visible in Gogol's eyes that he's falling for Lisa, but he's trying to hide it because
she's already married.
That night, Gogol dreams of Oksana, telling him that she'll help him find the horseman,
but she also needs his help.
Gogol suddenly wakes up, without knowing what kind of help Oksana needs.
In the morning, Gogol and the detective go to the abandoned windmill, and find a hand
on the ground.
Later on, it's revealed that it belongs to the woman in the hotel.
They try to confront her; but she strangles Gogol, trying to kill him.
when the detective tries to stop her, she throws him into the barn.
Luckily, the chief of police shoots the woman directly in the face before she kills Gogol.
When they search the woman's house, it's uncovered that she's a witch.
They also conclude that she's the horseman, because the murder weapon and the horseman
sign are found in her house.
The chief of police invites Gogol and the detective to celebrate.
but they refuse because they need to go home, thinking that the case is already resolved.
That evening, Gogol is surprised when Lisa visits him, and shares an intimate hormone
night with him.
In a spur of a moment, he wakes up and realizes that everything's just a dream, but seems
so real.
He then goes out, only to see the detective and the horseman are fighting inside the burning
barn.
He tries to help him; but it's too late because the barn has already collapsed.
Everyone believes that the detective and the horseman died in the fire.
However, Gogol believes that the horseman is still alive, because his remains aren't
found, and the witch is just his accomplice in leading them astray.
Because of that, Gogol decides to stay and continue the investigation.
Later that night, the horseman comes to the house where the witch's body lies, and then
resurrects her.
The witch apologizes because she wasn't able to inform him of Gogol's supernatural power.
Unfortunately, the horseman doesn't listen to her, but covers her face with his hand
as the witch screams to death.
A few days later, another murder takes place.
A greasy woman nick-named Ms Greasy, died suddenly, and her lover witnessed it.
According to the lover, they found a red jacket outside the house.
then suddenly, the candle was burned with a green flame, and blood came out of it.
Later on, the red jacket seemed to come to life, then a bloodied pig's head appeared
in the window.
In great fear, he ran away in four limbs, but he hit the wall, causing him to lose consciousness.
When he woke up, he was shocked to find that the woman had been stabbed to death.
According to old folklore, the devil throws a red jacket on the doorstep, which symbolizes
conjugal infidelity.
Ms Greasy is actually having a greasy hormone affair with her lover, because she's already
married.
Early in the morning, Gogol wakes up with scratches on his back.
He's confused because he remembers making love with Lisa, then it becomes Oksana.
Soon after, he finds out Ms Greasy's lover is imprisoned, because the police conclude
that the lover is the killer, since he was with the victim when she was found dead.
They also think that he's the horseman, since the horseman's sign is found on the crime
scene.
However, Gogol isn't convinced, so he investigates more with the help of the blacksmith, who's
good at sketching.
Gogol starts his investigation; he interrupts Ms Greasy's funeral, and interrogates her
husband.
The husband says that he's drinking alcohol with his daughter's boyfriend, while his daughter,
Paraska, was with her friends on the night of the killing.
When his first wife died, he remarried Ms Greasy, without knowing that she didn't treat
his daughter well.
As soon as Gogol examines the alleged sign of the horseman, he suffers from seizures
again and visions the crime, as he unconsciously draws a linden tree.
He realizes that linden is a slang word for fabrication, indicating that the evidence
is fabricated to show the horseman is the killer.
First, the symbol is painted upside down.
Second, the horseman only targets beautiful young women, not someone greasy.
Lastly, the horseman commits a crime in the forest, not in the house.
Later on, the murder weapon, red jacket, and candle are found in the husband's house.
Eventually, he admits the crime, saying that he did kill his wife, because he's sick and
tired of her infidelity.
He then pleads to attend his daughter's wedding before he's sent to jail.
However, Gogol isn't convinced by the husband's confession, so he wants to conduct an autopsy.
A drunk doctor with a bad reputation, nick-named Doctor Vodka, helps Gogol in autopsying the
woman's greasy body.
To ease Gogol's discomfort from seeing such a fat corpse, he joins Doctor Vodka in drinking
vodka.
Doctor Vodka concludes that Ms Greasy didn't die of stabbing, but from a ruptured heart
due to fear.
Thereafter, the drunken Gogol goes to Lisa's mansion, to clarify if she ever went to his
hotel the night before his supposed departure.
but she denies it.
While they're talking, the candle suddenly loses its spark.
When Lisa lights it, Gogol is reminded of the case that he needs to resolve; so he immediately
bids goodbye to Lisa.
Meanwhile, Paraska wakes up in the middle of the night, because someone's calling her.
When she's about to check it, the ghost of her step-mother appears, and grabs her foot.
Out of fear, she runs into the forest where she sees the horseman.
Luckily, Gogol helps her hide behind the tree.
When they are about to go home, Paraska's boyfriend arrives, and thinks that she's having
an affair with Gogol; so he punches him, causing him to lose consciousness.
Gogol then dreams of Oksana.
She explains that if he wants to find the horseman, he needs to control his supernatural
power; and in order to do that, he needs to focus and forget everything that troubles
his mind, especially Lisa.
Gogol is disappointed when he finds out Oksana pretended to be Lisa, and made love with him.
He then asks her to stay away from Lisa, which angers her.
It's obvious that Oksana is jealous of Lisa, because she has feelings for Gogol.
The next morning, Gogol wakes up with a black eye, wondering how he's able to go home.
He then checks the blacksmith's drawings of the women the horseman killed.
Later, his servant informs him that they found a trunk from the detective's belongings, with
a note that in the event of unforeseen circumstances, the trunk should be given to him; however,
they cannot open it since there's no key.
Paraska's wedding finally arrives.
Doctor Vodka finds hallucinogens on the candle found at the crime scene.
When he lights it, Gogol hallucinates and sees his greatest fear, the critic of his
book.
Then they conclude that when Ms Greasy and her lover lit the candle, they hallucinate
and think that the killer, who is wearing a pig mask, came out of hell to punish them
for their infidelity.
Ms Greasy died of fear, before she was stabbed by the killer.
It's then revealed that Paraska kills her step-mother, and her father just takes the
blame because he doesn't want his daughter to suffer.
When Gogol confronts the husband, he strangles him, as Paraska and her boyfriend run away
into the woods.
The chief of police helps Gogol escape from the husband.
then they quickly go to the woods to chase Paraska.
Paraska doesn't notice that her boyfriend falls to the ground, because the roots of
the tree curled up on his feet.
She escapes and rides a Tesla boat, with someone whom she thinks is her boyfriend.
but soon, she's terrified to figure out it isn't him, but the ghost of her step-mother.
Ms Greasy then brings her to the horseman.
Gogol and his team try to help Paraska.
but the ghost of Ms Greasy stops them.
When Doctor Vodka lights the candle with alcohol, the greasy ghost hallucinates and sees Gogol
as an evil spirit.
so she runs her greasy ass in fear.
Unfortunately, they aren't able to save Paraska.
The horseman kills her, then leaves his iconic mark on the ground.
The next day, Gogol gathers his men, and asks for their help in hunting down the horseman.
Unbeknownst to them, Oksana is in the old mirror, secretly listening to them.
Then Gogol gets the locked trunk from the detective.
Luckily, the blacksmith is able to unlock it.
but when Gogol touches it, he visions that the horseman's next victim would be Lisa.
The movie ends with the detective, who they thought was dead, standing at the top of the
cliff.
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