Lembayung
The Shadows That Speak in Lembayung With a film like Lembayung, fear is just the tip of the veil—it lingers, Like a subtle sough whistling through a warren. It unites countless mysteries with emotion and folklore. It is not just a horror story; it is a cultural ritual. It reminds the viewers how storytelling in […]
Hell of a Summer
When Campfire Tales Became a Bloody Reality It may be hard to believe, but Hell of a Summer was not pitched in a boardroom; instead, it started at a friendship on the set of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, fascinated with the horror-comedy genre, came up with a concept for a slasher film […]
Berlin Syndrome
The Promise of a Holiday Romance That Never Was The first trailers of Berlin Syndrome prepared the audience to the usual story of a young woman flying alone and falls in love in a new city. The Classic chance meetings. The original love and the Berlin flirtations and the romance and the daylight. Cate Shortlands […]
The Mist
A Small-Town Story That Felt Too Real “Making Stephen King’s The Mist was not the case of Darabont coming up with yet another monster flick…” King’s novels undoubtedly possess the world of horror, but at the same time, they tend to delve into the very essence of fear, survival, and the mental and social breakdown […]
Dreamcatcher
The Tea Stall Discussion of a Horror Novel Anticipated by many, when the movie; ‘Dreamcatcher’ got released, it was a book adaptation by Stephen King, one of a kind; and for the Indian audience whose viewing mediums consisted of single screens or a cable connection, looking at a film adaptation of a book was a […]
Founders Day
The Teacher Who Seems To Be More than What Meets Her Mask In the politics and masked mayhem of Founders Day, there is one character that is the anchor of all the chaos: Mr. Jackson (William Russ). To some, he is the warm and grounded dad from the sitcom Boy Meets World. Now, he is […]
Jacob’s Ladder
A Descent That Felt Too Real The 1990 release of Adrian Lyne’s film Jacob’s Ladder remains a one of a kind cinematic experience for audiences. Was it a war film? A horror drama? Even a philosophical reflection on death? These questions linger in the minds of viewer’s sifting through the film’s disorientating nature while trying […]
Cube
A budget puzzle piece that transformed into an obsession of the public The claustrophobic sci-fi and horror film titled ‘Cube’ released in the year 1997 in the hands of Canadian director Vincenzo Natali. The film, like many others, faced the issue of funding as it was recorded on minimal expenditure when relative to the end […]
Deep Rising
A Monster Lurking in the Depths of the Late ’90s In the 1990s, while Hollywood was still fine-tuning its computer-special effects—combined with large-scale spectaculars, considered ‘monsters-in-the-ocean’, ‘Deep Rising’ achieved a bold neoteric vision with monster horror, action-thriller, and dark comedy through a unique CGI approach. Like many cult films, this masterpiece too didn’t do too […]
Look Away
The Glass That Would Not Be Quiet The teenage years are marked with many kinds of battles – the internal almost emotional turmoil of being invisible, adamant about fitting in at all cost, and so on. Look Away, a movie created in 2018 and directed by Assaf Bernstein, is a psychological thriller whick expands on […]