Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov

Date of Birth

1961-06-25

Place of Birth

Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]

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The new episode of the Best Foreign Horror Movies video series takes a look at the 2004 Timur Bekmambetov film Night Watch.The new episode of the Best Foreign Horror Movies video series takes a look at the 2004 Timur Bekmambetov film Night Watch.

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Night Watch (2004) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago
Cody A new episode of our video series Best Foreign Horror Movies has just been released under the Revisited banner, and in this one we’re looking at the 2004 Russian movie Night Watch (watch it HERE). An “urban fantasy supernatural thriller”, Night...
Ben McKenzie and Bojana Novakovic star in director Pablo Absento's Japanese horror film Bloat, produced by Timur Bekmambetov.Ben McKenzie and Bojana Novakovic star in director Pablo Absento's Japanese horror film Bloat, produced by Timur Bekmambetov.

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Bloat: Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novakovic star in Japanese horror film

Posted 4 years ago
Variety broke the news that Ben McKenzie (Gotham) and Bojana Novakovic (Beyond Skyline) star in the Japanese horror film Bloat, which started production in New York and is now moving to Japan. Written and directed by Tokyo-based filmmaker Pablo Absento,...

Timur Bekmambetov’s Profile: Check out an exclusive clip!

Posted 5 years ago
Timur Bekmambetov's latest film Profile has been receiving high marks for its unique narrative gimmick that generates a high level of intensity and we are lucky enough to share an exclusive clip from the film which opens today, May 14! Based...

Profile Review

Posted 5 years ago
PLOT: Trying to uncover how ISIS recruiters are able to lure young Westerners over to their cause, a journalist poses as a Muslim convert and tries getting close with a recruiter, making him believe she aims to travel to Syria...

Profile: Timur Bekmambetov’s terrorist love story trailer debuts

Posted 5 years ago
Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Ben-Hur) and Focus Features have debuted an intense trailer for the Russian filmmaker's next thriller titled Profile. Using the Screenlife format popularized by films like Searching and Unfriended, Bekmambetov shot Profile back in 2018. The trailer, set to Phoebe...

Don’t Peek: horror short to be turned into feature by Timur Bekmambetov

Posted 5 years ago
So this is interesting! Deadline reports that the popular SXSW Animal Crossing-based horror film Don't Peek – which we actually reported on last year – will be getting the feature film treatment from genre filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)!  Meanwhile,...

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