Sputnik

A bit like Alien done the Russian way against the backdrop of the last phase of the Cold War. In Yegor Abramenko’s dark sci-fi horror, a young doctor (played by Oksana Akinshina), in an attempt to revive her dying career, is assigned to a top-secret government project: she’s to investigate and observe cosmonaut Konstantin (Pyotr Fyodorov) who has brought back a troublesome parasite from a space mission. What’s more, the parasite crawls out of the man’s body every night, leaving behind some seriously slimy, bloody havoc. And while the doctor mainly wants to save human life, her employers have their own plans for the aggressive alien creature.