Just came back from a visit to RGV's latest offering - PHOONK.
I think i've now come to a conclusion that Indian cinema is far from scaring audiences. I did not expect RGV to direct a movie at such rookie levels. I mean we could see the wires pulling the girl up to the ceiling people.
I feel horror needs to be conceptual rather than visual. A movie needs to hit a fear nerve that's very difficult to generalize since everyone has different levels of fear to different things. Perhaps death, demons and anti god are the most common and hence most movies revolve around the same concept.
Take 'The Blair Witch Project' for that matter. As a concept, the movie scares the hell out of me. 3 kids, 2 cameras and lost in the forest - what's scary about it. But the fear starts building because you either picture yourself in the situation or you start relating to the predicament the kids are in.
Coming back to PHOONK - i think it's hype and unnecessarily dragged. Many scenes are simply humurous. Maybe i expected more.
I think i've now come to a conclusion that Indian cinema is far from scaring audiences. I did not expect RGV to direct a movie at such rookie levels. I mean we could see the wires pulling the girl up to the ceiling people.
I feel horror needs to be conceptual rather than visual. A movie needs to hit a fear nerve that's very difficult to generalize since everyone has different levels of fear to different things. Perhaps death, demons and anti god are the most common and hence most movies revolve around the same concept.
Take 'The Blair Witch Project' for that matter. As a concept, the movie scares the hell out of me. 3 kids, 2 cameras and lost in the forest - what's scary about it. But the fear starts building because you either picture yourself in the situation or you start relating to the predicament the kids are in.
Coming back to PHOONK - i think it's hype and unnecessarily dragged. Many scenes are simply humurous. Maybe i expected more.
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