IN 1994 ANDREI CHIKATILO WAS EXECUTED FOR TORTURE, MURDER AND CANNIBALISM. TONIGHT HE RETURNS. GHOUL is based on the horrifying real life story of the Soviet Unions most violent serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo. Three Americans travel to Ukraine to film a documentary about the cannibalism epidemic that swept through the country during the famine of 1932. After being lured deep into a Ukraine forest to interview one of the last known survivors, they quickly find themselves trapped in a supernatural hunting ground.