The Legend of Ochi

4/23/2025

An animal species known as the ochi have been attacking people, destroying crops, and causing general destruction to a remote village on the small island of Carpathia. Maxim (Willem Dafoe) has taken it upon himself to lead every young boy on the island to hunt and kill the ochi before their chaotic conduct ruins any more Carpathian livelihoods. Maxim’s daughter Yuri (Helena Zengel, News of the World) doesn’t share her father’s kill or be killed rational towards the ochi. So when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi she takes it upon herself to take him home even though she has to risk her life to do so. The Legend of Ochi is the first feature film from Isaiah Saxon. Saxon was a character designer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and writes, directs, and produces The Legend of the Och

8/16/2025

The young “Yuri” (Helena Zengel) has been brought up to be very wary of, and to hunt ruthlessly, the Carpathian Ochi. These are red, gorilla-like, creatures that inhabit the forest high above the home she shares with her father (Willem Dafoe) and “Petro” (Finn Wolfhard). Her dad blames these creatures for just about every crime in the book, but more especially for corrupting her now estranged mother “Dasha” (Emily Watson) and is determined not to rest until they are all just pelts. Whilst she is tending to one of their numerous traps one evening, she discovers a young creature which she decides to set free and return to its family. When her father reads the fairly abrupt and angry letter she has left him before setting off, he flies into a rage and assembles his cohort of children to pursu