Weird Wednesday: Mute Witness

The Eighties was the era of the great panic about snuff flicks, and Marina Zudina embodied all those fears in this terrifying thriller about an American makeup artist hunted by a Russian murder gang led by a sinister yet unnervingly cool Alec Guinness. Freshly restored by the American Genre Film Archive, the cinematic preservation nonprofit established by the Alamo Drafthouse, it’s a cold and terrifying trip to post-Glasnost Russia, and the first ever international co-production filmed in Moscow. – Richard Whittaker