Soviet scientists play metaphysicians and bring dead dogs back to life, in a chilling and soulless medical training film designed, no doubt, to “inspire” similar lines of enquiry Stateside. First a dog’s severed head hooked up to a pump and reacting to citrus wiped on its nose, followed by a cheer squad of reanimated pooch-sickles, and surely armies of thawed-out ubermentsch facing each other on either side of the Iron Curtain is just around ze corner!

Ghastly? Yes, but also strangely compelling, and you can’t help feeling happy for the dog at the end, its wagging tail and lickey countenance belying the fact it’s had its Pet Sematary moment and has probably seen some shit…