Mirjana Nikolić as Radojka in the first Serbian horror movie Leptirica, 1973
“If anyone in Yugoslavia thought that the themes of vampires and witches were ‘outdated’, they got a wake-up call: a man in Skopje died of fright while watching the premiere of Leptirica on TV.” — Dejan Ognjanović, The Temple of Ghoul
Wow. She is truly beautiful! It’s so refreshing to see a person of color depicted in a fantasy setting that isn’t made to be a villain or complete throw away, idiot of a character, but as a queen.
currently obsessed with this taxidermied great white that was left to gather dust in an abandoned display in a park in australia. something about it is so simultaneously eerie and melancholy to me