So my friend was doing work in India for a month and when he got
back he brought over some horror movies just in time for Halloween. We
watched three horror movies and they each had varying degrees of
hilarity.
The first movie we saw was Raav: The mystery continues.
Now this horror movie tried to be really serious, but ended up being
extremely humorous due to the fact that every so often the characters
would break out into song and dance. This iI was told was how India
makes music videos they put them into their movies and then cut them
out for music videos in order to sell the movie or the music or both I
guess. Raav was about a ghost who gets revenge on it's killers so
imagine The Grudge with show tunes and that's Raav. It's so weird to be
all into a horror movie and then all of a sudden see everyone singing
and dancing to a love song.
The next movie was called 13 B. Now
this movie was pretty awesome. It had a good story and had some funny
parts that were meant to be funny. This movie was about a family of
ghosts that take revenge on their killer. In the middle there were
musical montages about love and sunshine that didn't really take you
out of the whole horror movie mindset. Then at the end was a music
video that had absolutely nothing to do with the movie! It was awesome
all the same though. 13 B was the best of the three movies.
Now,
the last movie I had heard a lot about and really wanted to see and
that was called Phoonk. It was definitely the scariest of the three.
Phoonk was about a witch who gets revenge on her former business
partner with magic. They did a couple of music montages about love and
butterflies which were actually sort of applicable to the story. There
was no video as the credits rolled like in 13 B, but there's a section
on the DVD called songs, but we didn't bother watching it.
All in
all these horror movies were the most unique horror movies I ever
watched and would be down for watching some more Indian horror movies
in the future. If you ever get the opportunity you should check one or
two out.
Note: All of these movies had subtitles. At first you
don't think you need them since they talk in English then they talk in
Indian then back to English. That's how it is. Every character in every
movie switched between the two languages in the middle of sentences all
the time. It was so weird!!!