Backrooms. What a strange film. What a uniquely unsettling experience. You’ll probably ask if I was satisfied? But conventional satisfaction requires a film that falls within a familiar framework. Backrooms is trying to be something else entirely. It asks whether you can surrender yourself to its distortions: in storytelling, in visuals, in sound. It aims…
Tag: Horror
Obsession Movie Review: Love Loses Limits
Before we sink into the many layers of Obsession, let me get my superlatives out of the way first: WHAT A FILM! What an ingenious premise. What a climax. What incredible performances from the lead actors. Inde Navarrette is tremendous as Nikki, of course, but how good is Michael Johnston as Bear? Also, did I…
Truth or Dare: Dull, sterile imagining of a fun premise
“It’s almost as if noone behind its making realised that any efforts to solemnify this inherently mad material, would only be futile.”
Insidious 4: The last sequel, hopefully
“There’s even a bit of melodrama as a character’s mother steps in to save the day, much like Molly Weasley at the end of Harry Potter: “Not my daughter, you b****!”
Aval: Lo and behold, a well-made Tamil horror film
Milind Rau’s Aval is perhaps the closest a Tamil horror film has ever come to being deserving of that much-coveted label, ‘Hollywood standard’
Sudhir Srinivasan 