Film Review - Horror Story

 

      And Then There Were None

Film: Horror Story

Cast: Karan Kundra, Nandini Vaid, Nishant Malkani

Directed by: Ayush Rana

Duration: 1 hr 32 mins

Rating: * *

From Producer Vikram Bhatt who has asserted himself as a horror film specialist comes Horror Story, featuring a bunch of debutants.  This particular genre has become incapable of throwing up any surprises, it is perennially old wine in old bottle. Occasionally, the label varies.

This time it is a bunch of young men and women, seven of them in all, who in the middle of the night decide to go to an abandoned hotel which is supposedly haunted. Needless to say, their IQ is on the lower side. After having a few drinks, they land up at a rather spooky hotel which was a mental asylum once upon a time. As it always happens when anyone enters a haunted place (in films only), the door shuts automatically. This is a hotel where, neither can you check out any time you like, nor can you ever leave.

Their ordeal begins when they start hearing strange sounds and the not so friendly ghost also makes an appearance. Even though the move by the youngsters is ultra idiotic and you have no sympathy for them, it keeps you partly interested.  Towards the end it goes down the familiar terrain except that this time they mumble some chant like ‘configurato spiritus…’ instead of  the usual Hanuman chalisa. They could have well repeated Citius Altius Fortius and probably it would have had the same effect on the spirit.

The background score is jarring most of the time and when the director has to resort to sounds and loud bangs instead of visuals, it becomes a case of been there seen that.

The debutants have done a decent job, I don’t see how other actors could have added value to the film.  Only and only if you are a die hard fan of horror films, this horror story is worth a glance.

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