
Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
Writing
Known For

Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?
Kitchenblock

The young family who moved to a new apartment on the outskirts of the city. The nanny hired by them for the newborn daughter quickly gained confidence. However, the older boy, Egor, talks about the frightening behavior of a woman, but his parents do not believe him. The surveillance cameras installed by the father for comfort only confirm everything is in order. Then one day, Egor, returning home, finds no trace of either the nanny or the little sister, and the parents are in a strange trance and do not even remember that they had a daughter. Then Egor, together with his friends, goes in search, during which it turns out that the nanny is an ancient Slavic demon, popularly known as Baba Yaga.
Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.
The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead

Early 20th century. Polina arrives at a girls' boarding school on a mysterious island to find her sister who disappeared under strange circumstances. Polina's investigation is complicated not only by conflicts with other girls and the imperious mentor Zakharova but also by a strange obsession that drives the girls mad, one after another. Polina needs to find out what happened to her sister without losing her mind in the process and get off the island which is sinking in the abyss of insanity.
Pansion

Terror strikes when a heartbroken woman uses black magic to get her husband back.
Dark Spell

Millionaire Georgiy celebrates his birthday all alone. Not being quite sober, he demands that his faithful assistant Ilya organize a real family for him by the morning. Imagine Georgiy's amazement when he wakes up surrounded by his wife, son and daughter, who claim that he has always had them. Their words are confirmed by documents, family photos, employees, partners and even Georgiy's own mother. Now he has to learn how to be a husband and father, and in this matter, money will not solve all the problems.
The Family Man

When Yulya learns of her beloved husband's betrayal, she decides to poison both him and his mistress. Now, to get the antidote, the cheaters must prove that they truly love each other, otherwise death is inevitable.
Кто-то должен умереть

According to legend, an ominous entity known as the Queen of Spades can be summoned by performing an ancient ritual. Four teenagers summon the Queen of Spades, but they could never imagine the horrors that await them.
Queen of Spades

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...
The Bride

Based on real events. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades. The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.
The Widow

Oleg is a high school student who, together with his friends, engages in petty theft. Olga is the daughter of a military man who controls her every move.
Teens: First Love

Sixteen-year-old Zhenya, whom everyone calls Tin, fully justifies her nickname - she is gesticulating and destroys relationships with everyone around her. She became such after she received a concussion and a leg injury. Now she limps and sees the world far from rosy. Zhenya blames his best (and now former) friend Prikhodka for his injury and directs all his anger and sparkling cynicism at him. But apart from Prikhodko, everyone gets it: parents, older brother, girlfriends and classmates. Everything changes when Zhenya meets the head of the robotics circle, Stanislav Karin, who becomes her mentor. Through interaction with robots, Zhenya learns to communicate with people, enjoys life, and most importantly, forgives and regains an old friend.
Jane Not Sane

There is an ancient ritual known to humankind for more than a hundred years...According to the legend, an ominous entity known as The Queen of Spades can be summoned by drawing a door and staircase on a mirror in the darkness, and by saying her name three times. The Queen of Spades gets her energy from reflective objects; she cuts locks of hair from those asleep, and those that see her go mad or die. Four teenagers decide to call The Queen of Spades as a joke. But when one of them dies of a sudden heart attack, the group realizes they are up against something inexplicable and deadly dangerous.
Queen of Spades: The Dark Rite

Matvey is a young diligent altar boy who dreams of becoming a priest. Agata is a spontaneous, daring artist who is not used to planning ahead. After meeting Matvey and Agata, they realize that their seemingly different worlds are united by the same problems and values. But can they really understand it?
Matthew Passion

Ksyusha barely remembers her father: he went missing when she was a child. Incredibly, he is showing signs of life, despite being in a coma. The man is returned home in this condition. His wife has now remarried. The family is thrown into disarray by the return of the former master of the house – terrifying things are happening in the house, and Ksyusha’s mom starts acting weird… Ksyusha begins to suspect that something supernatural, icy, and lifeless has come home with her father. And now Ksyusha and her stepfather are about to find themselves protecting their family from a demon.
The Ice Demon

A former boarding school student, and now a successful young entrepreneur, falls in love with a girl whose parents are not happy with their daughter's chosen one. They set the hero an impossible condition in advance - the wedding will take place only if Fedya's real parents are present.
Знакомство родителей

Sveta and Maxim, a happy newlyweds, are moving to their hew apartment only to discover that there is something mysterious and wrong about their new building.
Apartment 18
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Вернувшийся
New horror (producers Ivan Kapitonov, Svyatoslav Podgayevsky)
Родные

In the future one can hardly understand what he is and who is beside, a human being or a machine, a friend or an enemy. In a rush for answers he finds both allies and foes.