The '80s-set science fiction-horror film Sputnik stars Pyotr Fyodorov as a Russian astronaut who returns to Earth with gaps in his memory of his most recent, and disastrous, mission. In a secluded ...

Sputnik belongs to the not too commonplace retro horror genre. The movie is set in 1983, at a secure Soviet research institute out in the wasteland of the Kazakh steppes.

Sputnik is just shy of two hours, and the first two-thirds are pretty spellbinding. The final act of the film forgoes its sense of intrigue in exchange for balls-to-the-wall, cat-and-mouse action ...

The DNA of “Alien” is all over Egor Abramenko’s directorial debut, the Russian Soviet-era horror/sci-fi film “Sputnik.” Fortunately, this offspring of Ridley Scott’s classic is very ...