![]() You know what? If you’re that stupid, you deserve to die in the unimaginably gory ways.Īnd since I have no empathy for these people, the movie is a lost cause. And they still don’t move to a hotel or move in with a friend. And what does she do? She continues to live in that mansion. The other twin returns to the family mansion (it’s always a mansion, and there’s never any neighbour for miles around) and discovers, very early, that her dead sister is out to kill her. The Exorcist, which are genuine works of art that contain elements of horror, but about these cheap shockers.Ĭhaarulatha, we’re informed that one of the twins died after an operation was performed to separate them. (What if an important, well-made horror film came along some day?) I’d say no - they could get someone else to review these films. ![]() I like my food in my stomach, thank you very much.Ī former colleague used to argue with me, saying that I was a critic and therefore I needed to develop a taste for this genre. (I closed my eyes through the night-time half, which is when things go bump and a lot of boo moments are brought out.) Why do people like to watch these films, which are mostly just manipulations of sound and light calculated to make you jump in your seat? I suppose it’s the same reason you’d strap yourself to a roller-coaster. I ended up watching about half the movie - the half that was set in daylight. I just don’t see the point of sitting through a couple of hours of silence followed by a loud burst of sound followed by silence followed by a loud burst of sound,Īd infinitum. Before the opening credits, there appeared a disclaimer about how belief in malevolent spirits is a personal choice and that people’s mileage may vary when it comes to the supernatural - and I slumped in my seat. What I did not know was that it was a horror film. Whether the film turned out to be well made or not, there is some sort of historical significance at play here. Maattrraan ) - so the subject alone was incentive enough. You don’t get to see stories about conjoined twins every day (though soon, we will see Suriya essaying one such role, or two such roles, in ![]() And before leaving for the film, a colleague informed me this was a remake of a Thai movie.īut that’s it. And I knew they wore generally hideous outfits. I watched it in Tamil.) From the press reports and stills and early, I knew it was about conjoined twins, played by Priya Mani. ![]() My philosophy of trying to know as little as possible about a movie before watching it bit me on the behind last Saturday, when I stepped into a theatre screeningĬhaarulatha. ![]()
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