Red Rooms (2017)
Driven Into Darkness: How Technology Became A Modern Day Prison The rest of the world may interpret Kyra as a young, devoted mother to her child, but the film brings forth a more unsettling narrative: a woman, all alone in the dark of night gets locked in a horrendous spiral of her life the moment […]
Red Rooms (2023)
In the Quiet Before the Screen: A Tale of Obsession Imagine a heroine who arises before dawn, not for prayer or pooja, but to stake her place in a courtroom. Kelly-Anne—portrayed with chilling restraint by Juliette Gariépy—waits at the door of justice, fasting not from food but from sleep, her eyes hungry for the spectacle […]
The Reef
When the Ocean Became the Villain Shark cinema has always been, for some reason, intriguing to an audience. For Indian viewers, who see the ocean as both ethereal and horrifying, The Reef has a unique resonance. Directed by Andrew Traucki, this Australian thriller from the year 2010, does not qualify as a mere shark-attack movie. […]
Don’t Sleep
The case film that sparked monumental discussions Unlike other films, Don’t Sleep didn’t make a big debut. The movie,that was directed by Rick Bieber, was treated as a horror thriller film with a lot of them already in the market. Rick was not as popular as the other directors thus, the movie did not get […]
Lamb
A Folklore Centered Around Quietness The marketing of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s movie Lamb, released in 2021, proved challenging as the audience did not know how to categorize a movie described as horror-drama with folkloric elements. Among the most jarring departure from genre expectations came from the fact that audiences were craving a film with the customary […]
Infernal
A Horror That Tried to Break the Mold. Infernal was released in 2015 with the promise of being a different type of found-footage horror. Directed by Bryan Coyne, the story follows a young couple, Nathan and Sophia, who moved to a new house and started recording their life only to find their daughter, Imogene, doing […]
You Are Not My Mother
An Indelible Catastrophe When You Are Not My Mother came out, it wasn’t marketed as yet another supernatural series filled with suspense. It was presented as something inherently and unmistakably Irish, steeped in folklore yet starkly contemporary. The narrative of a distressed mother who starts behaving oddly after a disappearance became a fixation for the […]
Cobweb
A Child’s Nightmare Becomes Everyone’s When Cobweb was announced, horror aficionados had already begun salivating at the possibility of another fresh tale, intimate, spine-chilling, and profoundly psychological. The trailer, featuring the character of Peter, had him lying awake at night with strange muffled whispers emanating from within the walls of his bedroom. Parents with a […]
The Blind King
Tales Before The Dark What was perhaps most riveting about the trailer for “The Blind King” was the fact that it was shown even before the movie premiered. Seemingly, there was a mythic dread about a grotesque figure, blind folded, that weaved through nightmares. Alongside a father and daughter mourning the loss of a mother, […]
Prey for the Devil
A Nun, a Calling, and the Devil Whispering at the Door A woman, a priest, a woman who is a nun, and the agent of salvation in an exorcism is the nexus of discussion as pertains to Prey for the Devil‘, the movie that was to be released at the time. The trailers promised the […]