Written and Directed by: V. Vignarajan
Streaming on Netflix.
It's a psychological, supernatural thriller. My only complaint against this genre of films is that - they present a riveting mystery - we have no clue how things would happen that way and they answer the mystery by saying that it was done by a ghost. Even The Wailing (2016) had the same issue. I'm also generally not a fan of watching visuals like a bottle following a man walking, a cell phone hanging in the air - these visuals seem unconvincing and hence they don't look as scary. The shot where the man in the chair gets up - though I expected it - that scared the shit out of me, because it's not an unconvincing shot. They've to be sparingly used.
Having said that, the film grabs us into its world and keeps us in it. With the intercutting between different scenes, between a hypnotic manipulation and an exorcism - there's a certain sense of eeriness that's maintained throughout the film. The intercutting between scenes which are supposed to be in chronological order - was interesting. But the film being boiled down to revenge plots by the end - that was a little underwhelming, because of the generic pay off and for the lack of a theme. With such psychological thrillers, there is a hope that things will fall into place and that we'd see pay offs for every question asked and for everything that's been set - but when the answers are disappointing, then the experience feels underwhelming.
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