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Someone Outside
Four teenage boys throw a party while their parents are out. The evening passes with internet legends and pizza, until one of them notices someone watching them from the other side of the window. And the darker the night gets, the closer the stranger gets.
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Four teenage boys throw a party while their parents are out. The evening passes with internet legends and pizza, until one of them notices someone watching them from the other side of the window. And the darker the night gets, the closer the stranger gets.
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Genre:Horror, Mystery, Drama
Written By:Aleksandr Grishin
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Runtime:24 minutes
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Cast
Aleksandr Grishin
Director
Igor Ivanov
Vladik
Kirill Levitskiy
Arseniy
Evgeny Andrievsky
Oleg
Viktor Ishutin
Yaroslav
Veniamin Zadvornov
Vladik's brother
Ekaterina Lugovaya
Brother's girlfriend
Dmitry Krutov
Pizza delivery guy
Vasily Starkov
The Tall Man
Valeriy Besstrashnov
Radio presenter
Anastasia Lavrenteva
Guest on the radio
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