Night Watch, the Russian horror film that outgrossed Spider-Man 2 and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King at the Russian box office, is available to US audiences in a sleek DVD version that includes cutting edge graphically designed subtitles. The subtitles are downright startling, artful, and stylish. The subtitles dance with the action, gracefully wavering and sliding about the screen and becoming a part of the movie instead of being slapped to the bottom of the screen as an afterthought. When Co-writer and director Timur Bekmambetov realized that his movie would have subtitles, he set out to be a part of the process of designing them and integrating them into the movie.The DVD I received from Netflix is double sided- one side has the typical and boring subtitles and the other has the “theatrical animated” ones. Check out a clip that shows you the glaring difference.

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