The heroine who gets a hero’s welcome

A new generation of filmmakers will write their stories without the assumption that the protagonist is a male, without the assumption that a female role attains fulfillment when she finds a partner.

Lights Out: A few good scares

The gutsiest people out there will agree that pitch-black darkness is unsettling, for there is nothing more frightening than the conjurings of your mind, pun definitely intended. Director David Sandberg knows this, and in Lights Out, uses it to create some hair-raising sequences in the dark. The malevolent spirit in the film is a creature…

Fear of the dark

“There is usually nobody hiding in the shadows, but what if there was somebody there?”

For the love of horror

Days ahead of the release of The Conjuring 2 , the master of horror, James Wan, talks about his rediscovered love for the genre Do you know that The Conjuring was so well-received in India that the audiences were unusually quiet during the screening? (Laughs) Really? I did have the impression that the movie did…

Alone in the dark

What it was like to watch a horror film alone in the theatre, earlier this week