Film: Horror Story
Starring: Karan Kundra, Nishant Malkani, Ravish Desai
Director: Ayush Raina
Producer: Vikram Bhatt
Banner: ASA Production ,Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Music: Amar Mohile
"Horror Story" is one of the bluntest
most direct tales of terror to be unleashed in recent times. The feeling
of being trapped with a group of youngsters, who would want to be
anywhere except the place that the spooky script selects for them, stays
with us till the end.
Uppermost in the script is a sense of
impending catastrophe. Producer-writer Vikram Bhatt has always been
attracted to terror and the occult. But when an A-lister actress runs
around in skimpy clothes trying to look terrified, one does get
distracted.
It is a monster-stroke to cast
completely new faces in "Horror Story". The young cast is competent and
capable of carrying the chills forward to its fatal finale.
Debutant director Ayush Raina shoots the
grisly goings-on with the minimum stress on conventional sounds and
visuals associated with the horror genre. Belatedly the horror genre has
chanced upon the relevance of austerity in putting forward the panic
and terror of youngsters trapped in a situation where they cannot escape
from a satanic annihilation.
Familiar fear is here transmitted into a slickly spun yarn that keeps you glued to the gore.
The narrative is clustered together into a collage of scenes evoking a sense of growing foreboding.
Gargey Trivedi's cinematography at once creates a sense of urgency and doom.
The characters are captured in postures
of desperate resignation to a situation over which they have no control.
Luckily for these unlucky youngsters, the director is in full control
of their destiny.
Amar Mohile's background score comes and
goes insistently reminding us of the monster that manoeuvres mortality
into the fast lane.
A scare-fest that makes your blood
freeze and flesh crawl, "Horror Story" is your worst nightmare come
true. Shot in colours that contour the flavour of dread and doom, the
feel-fear flick has moment that make your heart skip a beat.