Last Sunday night i was rather sharp. Over white wine and good easy flowing conversation, there was a sudden night thing to watch a ghost flick. It so happened that Set Max was playing "Haunted" in 3D.
I am a sucker for ghost stories. I LOVE THEM!! Every time some friends get together, these stories flow, and people get the shivers, and some others are bloody scared, but way too curious for their own good, and the goosebumps and the works.
However before i say a word more, i MUST salute those who went to cinemas and saw HAUNTED. *salute*
This movie was a laugh riot! Haunted, my friends, takes horror, horror story telling and time and space relationships, several notches in a zone where you are likely to lose yourself.
Since my visual powers were enhanced that night, there was noticeable lack of depth of field. Of course, i credited my absolutely wonderful vision to something else. But the movie wasn't looking the way its supposed to look. Especially on television. And then the 3D wave struck. Woah! They shot this movie in 3D for what!?
Well, my disappointment aside, what took the cake was the awesome spacio-temporal plot. Look it up! The "i" button on tatasky doesn't do justice to the sheer whacko genius who thought of this.
Ghost stories are loved world wide. The haunting, exorcism, rites and rituals, signs and symbols, the powers of the evil spirits, the powers that the evil spirit is afraid of, the power levels of the shaman and the degree of evil in the ghost - have a way of getting around. you know, late night pajama parties, friends traveling, strangers bonding over stories, and that's where a lot of cross cultural references are made, assimilated in other stories and so on and so forth.
This guy has taken all the symbols from all the horror space from the last decade and mixed them with the Ramsay bros and added the element of 3D to it. The Ring, Emily Rose, Dark Water, The Skeleton Key, The Orphan - you name it!!
I guess that's how these ideas abt ghosts propagate. What ghosts in Maharashtra do this? Well, lets add that to what ghosts in Kashmir do. Oh, wait! Thats an interesting twist i can add to ghosts in middle east. How will ghosts in Japan be if they could do this? Wont it make ghosts in Amreeka way cooler if we added this to our stories?
Like i said, i love ghost stories. If we happen to meet and we run out of things to say, let us start sharing them :)
PS: And then we started watching "Mere yaar ki shaadi hai" with Uday Chopra in it. We were cracking a lot of bad jokes abt him, his acting skills, his potential jobs, his last chance to redeem himself with "Pyar Impossible", when Priyanka took LOADS of money to be seen with him on screen, abt remakes - "My best friends wedding" - and all that humor - BUT SET MAX JUST STOPPED THE MOVIE MID-SCENE AND STARTED A SHOPPING BULLETIN.
No one cares abt the way-past-late night movie audience.
I am a sucker for ghost stories. I LOVE THEM!! Every time some friends get together, these stories flow, and people get the shivers, and some others are bloody scared, but way too curious for their own good, and the goosebumps and the works.
However before i say a word more, i MUST salute those who went to cinemas and saw HAUNTED. *salute*
This movie was a laugh riot! Haunted, my friends, takes horror, horror story telling and time and space relationships, several notches in a zone where you are likely to lose yourself.
Since my visual powers were enhanced that night, there was noticeable lack of depth of field. Of course, i credited my absolutely wonderful vision to something else. But the movie wasn't looking the way its supposed to look. Especially on television. And then the 3D wave struck. Woah! They shot this movie in 3D for what!?
Well, my disappointment aside, what took the cake was the awesome spacio-temporal plot. Look it up! The "i" button on tatasky doesn't do justice to the sheer whacko genius who thought of this.
Ghost stories are loved world wide. The haunting, exorcism, rites and rituals, signs and symbols, the powers of the evil spirits, the powers that the evil spirit is afraid of, the power levels of the shaman and the degree of evil in the ghost - have a way of getting around. you know, late night pajama parties, friends traveling, strangers bonding over stories, and that's where a lot of cross cultural references are made, assimilated in other stories and so on and so forth.
This guy has taken all the symbols from all the horror space from the last decade and mixed them with the Ramsay bros and added the element of 3D to it. The Ring, Emily Rose, Dark Water, The Skeleton Key, The Orphan - you name it!!
I guess that's how these ideas abt ghosts propagate. What ghosts in Maharashtra do this? Well, lets add that to what ghosts in Kashmir do. Oh, wait! Thats an interesting twist i can add to ghosts in middle east. How will ghosts in Japan be if they could do this? Wont it make ghosts in Amreeka way cooler if we added this to our stories?
Like i said, i love ghost stories. If we happen to meet and we run out of things to say, let us start sharing them :)
PS: And then we started watching "Mere yaar ki shaadi hai" with Uday Chopra in it. We were cracking a lot of bad jokes abt him, his acting skills, his potential jobs, his last chance to redeem himself with "Pyar Impossible", when Priyanka took LOADS of money to be seen with him on screen, abt remakes - "My best friends wedding" - and all that humor - BUT SET MAX JUST STOPPED THE MOVIE MID-SCENE AND STARTED A SHOPPING BULLETIN.
No one cares abt the way-past-late night movie audience.
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