Ghoul

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We are at the Boryspil Airport

in Kiev,

and this is the first chapter

of our documentary

entitled Cannibals

of the 20th Century.

In 1932 and 1933,

Ukraine suffered

a terrible famine,

which led many people

to resort to cannibalism.

We'll be interviewing

famine survivors,

but we're here mainly

because of Boris Glaskov,

charged with cannibalism,

who decided

to speak about it openly.

It'll be

a cannibal's confession.

You think that's too much?

No, no, no. I think it's good.

I think we need to keep

constantly shocking the viewer.

I mean, if it's too much,

we can edit it out later, right?

Okay, yeah.

How do you do?

How do you do, my friend?

- Hello!

- My friend.

Good to see you.

We have to go because we have

a lot of things to do today.

Dobri den. My name's Ethan.

Hello, my name is Katarina.

Nice to meet you.

- Please, please, let me.

- I'll take these.

I'll take that.

I'll get that one.

You're such a gentleman.

- We should be square.

- Good, good.

t's all good.

How old was she

during the famine?

She was 13.

She heard that after the war,

they made cutlets

out of human flesh,

and they just sold them.

- They sold them?

- Yeah.

So we're in

the Ukrainian National Library,

where we'll be meeting

with Professor Dmitri Antonov,

who studies the causes and

consequences of cannibalism.

Now, how long has Boris Glaskov

worked for you?

Around 15 years,

since he got out of prison.

Boris Glaskov was

accused of murdering

his colleague

from the university,

Tolja Kovalenko,

but they never found

Tolja's body,

and eventually they had

to let Boris go.

But there are dozens

of other people in this area

that disappeared mysteriously.

Do you think there's

any connection with them?

Katarina.

Valeriy says he's just

making an excuse

for not being able to visit.

He just wants more money.

How much more does he want?

Another thousand dollars,

and he wants an advance.

- Can't afford it.

- I know.

Look, I'll figure it out.

I'll make it work, okay?

- We don't have a choice.

- We don't have the money.

We came here because of him,

all right? We need him.

I'll make it work.

Okay, it's turned off.

Katarina, are you okay?

Yes.

Does Boris agree?

I guess he's giving us

the keys for the house.

- He's hideous.

- Yeah.

- So, Ryan?

- Yeah?

- Boris just gave you the keys?

- Yeah.

Don't you think

that's a little strange?

Actually, he gave the keys

to Katarina,

so you might wanna

look out for her.

You don't want him

to eat your girlfriend.

Aw, that's real cute.

Seriously,

you should go with her.

She looks really upset.

All right, if we got the keys,

let's go.

All right, let's go, yeah.

Um, this is Inna,

and she's local...

witch.

Yeah, and she can go with us

to help us.

I'm sorry, and how is a witch

supposed to help us?

People here are a bit different,

and they're afraid of strangers,

and they might not want

to talk to you,

but they will definitely

talk to Inna.

Well, it can't hurt, right?

- Sure.

- Okay.

Ryan, I don't think

this is a good idea.

- We're gonna get stuck.

- It's scratching the car bad.

Whoa. Look at that.

Whoa! Stop.

It looks like something's

blocking the road.

- Let's go.

- Okay.

Up.

So the house

is about an hour away

from the sawmill in the village,

in the middle of the woods.

All right, this is the house.

So this is the house

where we'll be interviewing

Boris Glaskov today.

And hopefully find out a bit

more about what happened here.

Boris Glaskov was accused

of murdering his colleague.

Now, they never found the body,

but when Boris is under hypnosis

with Professor Anatov,

he actually confessed

to the murder,

and he claimed that he was

being forced to eat the body.

If that's true, who or what was

forcing him to do that and why?

Wow.

It's actually

really pretty out here.

- What is this?

- It's so we can see the shot.

- This is good.

- Here we go.

- Hey, Mom.

- Hey!

Hey, Dad.

Never thought I'd do it?

- Thanks for doing this with me.

- You're welcome.

- You're awesome.

- Thanks.

- It's a little bit...

- A little dusty?

It is. I don't know

why it's in the bedroom,

but, here it is.

Dude, there's like a...

an attic or something up there.

Hey, Jenny, give me the camera.

- You see anything up there?

- Naw.

- F***!

- What? What?

- Sh*t.

- What?

Boris must have left his shoes

up here. They freaked me out.

Dude, what,

are you trying to scare me?

F***!

There's tons of light

in this room.

What's for dinner?

Some garlic and fly larva.

Garlic and flies

for dinner tonight.

For a family.

This must've been what they ate

during the famine.

Sh*t. Not very funny?

Sorry. I'm a dick.

- Should work.

- Nice!

Good job, man.

And we also decided to install

some backup cameras,

our reliable 2D backup.

It's like Big Brother.

That's how we roll.

It might be a little high

on the left,

but we'll have to adjust it

when he gets here.

Okay.

So Valeriy's psychic...

Doesn't seem like she wants

to come in the house.

That's strange. She hasn't even

spoken since we got in the car.

Valeriy kindly asks you

if you can give some money

in advance for three of us

- for tomorrow.

- The three of you?

I mean, I...

We only have money

for you and Valeriy.

Here. I'll give you the advance

for you and Katarina,

and then, um, you know,

after we are done,

completely wrapped with filming,

I'll try to see if I could

work out something for Inna.

We'll just have to see

how much money I have after.

I see.

So it is 8:
00,

and Boris has not arrived.

Probably isn't gonna arrive.

So Valeriy's been trying

to call him in the village,

but hasn't been able

to get ahold of anybody.

We've got food, we've got drinks

and enough oil to keep

the generator running,

so we decided to stay here

for the night.

No. You decided to stay.

Not everyone agrees.

I talked to Ryan. We don't have

to stay here for the night.

We could find a hotel.

No. We just trying to arrange

who sleeps where.

He can arrange anything.

Would you like to hunt a deer

with a machine gun?

Or go fishing with a grenade?

What about the Russian

boot dance they do?

Doesn't every Russian do the...

I wanna see that.

Let's see that.

So according to

our guide Valeriy...

There's Valeriy

making a fire for us.

This is the table where

Boris and his colleague

invoked the spirits.

The spirit told him

that somebody killed

and ate a little boy

right here on this table.

So let's clear off the table,

and let's do our own

little invocation?

Inna is going to show us

the ancient technique

of invoking spirits.

Table.

- What is that?

- Whoa!

Yeah, that's creepy.

- That's insane.

- That's cool.

I mean, I guess it's convenient.

They didn't have to leave

the table after dinner,

and they just flip over a glass

and invoke some spirits

or something.

They have such normal evenings

in Ukraine, don't they?

Different country,

different habits, I guess. Jeez.

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