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Not so known director Hovard Deitch in Russia, the big expert in sequals (films-continuations) («Old grumblers have raged», «the Strange couple 2», «Nine yards 2»), has removed the fourth episode «Баек from a crypt» under the name «Only Sin Deep» («Only a sin»). Despite lacking director's experience in a genre of horrors, Deitch has created quite worthy series with rather interesting plot.

Street prostitute Silvija (Lea Thompson – the trilogy «Back in the future», «Intolerable Деннис») together with the friend on "business" Рейвен with envy observes of smartly dressed people gathering for a party in the house opposite. Unexpectedly the local souteneur offering to it "roof" starts to stick to it. Having decided to profit at his expense, Сильвия entices the souteneur in a dark lane and kills from the pistol. Having devastated its pockets (jewelry, money, expensive watch), Сильвия disappears. Next day it goes to the usurer to sell the extraction. However a disgusting kind the usurer (television actor Britt Lich) refuses to take its goods, referring that things stolen. While between them there is a verbal skirmish, the old woman comes into a pawnshop with the person closed by a black veil and accuses the usurer of larceny. Terribly having waved клюкой, it in despair leaves. After that strange visit the usurer offers Сильвии considerably the big sum, 10 thousand dollars, only for that she has allowed it to make a mould from her face. Thus he wishes to buy from it on the security of its beauty. Сильвия, having accepted the usurer for the harmless madman, with ease agrees on its offer. He says Сильвии, that to it is given four months to redeem goods back sold by it. Later to make it it will be impossible. Сильвия does not pay attention to its words and directs in boutiques for purchase of expensive clothes – she after all has conceived «охмурить» young rich handsome man Ронни, the owner of smart apartment in that house where there are elite parties. She yet does not know, that the usurer uses moulds from persons such as it, thoughtless persons for mysterious ritual on restoration of beauty and a youth of the for a long time died wife, almost мумифицированный which corpse lays at it in a back room of a pawnshop. Successfully having tempted Ронни, Сильвия moves to it to live. Time goes, and Сильвия with alarm notices, that at it ageing signs – wrinkles on the face, loss of hair etc. Fortunately start to be shown, Ронни leaves in official journey and has not time to see the terrible changes occurring with Сильвией. After four months it turns to the eighty-year-old old woman. In horror Сильвия runs in a pawnshop to return back youth …

«Only a sin» - very qualitative episode of a serial. And though in it practically there is no «саспенс», a frank violence, bloody scenes, «обнаженка» and even "black" humour (that is all attributes guaranteeing success at target audience), this episode it is looked with the great pleasure.

Firm 4 from 5.