Raaz 3

Genre : Horror
Director : Vikram Bhatt

Plot

Bipasha Basu (Shanaya) is a successful actress but her dream to be the best actress of the year is shattered by an upcoming actress Sanjana (Esha Gupta). To take revenge from her, she seeks help from a black magic specialist.

Review

Many of you might have heard several black magic stories and to be truthful, it is not at all different from those you might have already heard or watched. The concept is stale now and Vikram Bhatt has done nothing to revive that. ‘Raaz 3: The Third Dimension’ is actually on third dimension just with the stereoscopic 3D effects and not some concept.

Fore mostly I haven’t watched any of the Esha Gupta movies and I am also not a big fan of Emraan Hashmi movies and the feeling is more intense over his last watch Shanghai. Is Esha Gupta hot? Well yes she looks stunning in the movie. But does Esha Gupta know how to act? I’ll give a big no to it. She basically irritates with her acting most of the time. Any other character has not done any better wonders as well. The dialog delivery is pathetic too. Moreover the dialogs themselves are poorly written.There are certain things which were really good and could have been much effective if had directed nicely. The chills of the movies are good and look effective in 3D. That’s where the movie is particularly fine. It manages to make you stir in some scenes. The sound effects I would say were impressive and commendable. Many a things looks like copied from the Hollywood movies. A lot of scenes are what we have already seen somewhere. 

Please see to it that the film is not a sequel to ‘Raaz: the mystery continues” and neither was that a sequel to ‘Raaz’. They are just trying to earn on the brand name. Raaz 3 songs are nice but have no place in the movie and are stuffed in forcefully. Display of sex is how Vikram tends to attract viewers these days. Esha Gupta has gone all nude for a scene which is one of the scenes that could have been more effective. But with all the funny looking dialogs and characters it became a bit dull. The concept of black magic spells could have been made so much better for sure.

Lastly, if you have seen a raaz 3 trailer than you already know what to expect.  With zero expectations you might think it’s a nice one time watch. Though it doesn’t stand anywhere on the critical standards with poor script and poor acts and poor direction, it is definitely a onetime average watch with some decent scares, pretty nice sound effects and cool 3D effects considering Indian cinema. Horror watchers can definitely watch it as it is actually better than what we have seen in recent years (especially by Ram Gopal Verma).

An average horror fare

5 on 10

 

The Blair Witch Project

 Genre : Horror | Mystery
Runtime : 81 Min
Directos: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

Plot

Three film students go missing after traveling into the woods of Maryland to make a documentary about the local Blair Witch legend leaving only their footage behind.

Review

I will speak frankly that I always wanted to watch this movie as I have heard a lot about it. But I could not watch it as it seemed too boring. I had nothing much to do and it was late night when I watched it (complete this time). I was not much surprised as I have already seen a lot of cam movies already but the fact that the movie could be interesting after almost half an hour is surprising.

The whole movie is presented in a manner that the footage used is real. Well that kind of hype was the sole reason that I was intrigued to watch it. Therefore the movie had that creepiness that is present after about half of the movie. Things get tense then and if you know it all happened for real, it will definitely creep you out. There are no sudden scenes to make you jump but gradually it starts filling with an aura of spookiness. All of them acted real, very real I must say. Don't get confused, it's not something that happened for real. The actors are very much alive and its just a movie. I won't talk much about it here and you can Google it to know exactly how the acts seemed so real. But yeah, it was very much disappointing to know the fact. I didn't like the climax at all. Movie on the whole seemed average to me just because it was released a decade ago and was kind of the first in such genre. Definitely capable of pulling you into an eerie environment but not scary for me.

Can be Watched Once

5 on 10

Laddaland

 Genre : Horror
Runtime : 117 Min
Director: Sopon Sukdapisit

Plot

 A family moves to Laddaland after the father is being posted to a new company. But soon they are encountered by a series of paranormal events.

Review

I have seen every work of Sopon Sukdapisit. This was the reason that I had a lot of expectations from him again. His earlier works were terrifying. Now Laddaland is a bit different from them. Its actually based on the events that happened in Chian Mai. The movie starts in a pleasant manner and the BGM is really beautiful. Soon after the family moves to Laddaland, things start happening and they are hit by certain bad omens.

Now I must admit that the very first sudden scene was enough to make me jump. It was not scary but I could feel my heartbeat pacing. Things kept happening and there were a lot of sudden scenes to stir me up. But there is a big problem. Things were emerging out of no where and running into null. I could not link up the events. They just happened randomly and at random times. There was some bit of drama going as well and I think that's pretty much responsible for it. I could not feel a scary environment which should build up in a horror movie especially in a movie directed by someone like Sopon Sukdapisit. There is a whole lot of plot holes in the script. The acts were likeable to me. Direction is lacking which is responsible as well for making this movie just average. On whole I will say that it definitely kept putting chills down my spine but at no point I felt it was scary and creepy. For me, that is an important thing in a horror movie. I dint even liked the climax. It comes out to be just an average movie.

An Average Horror Flick

5 on 10

The Woman in Black

 
Genre : Drama | Horror | Thriller
Runtime : 95 Min
Director: James Watkins

Plot

A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

Review

Daniel Radcliffe will have a hard time erasing his Harry Potter image clearly. The first sight at the movie and this is what will cross your mind. Maybe it will take him few years to be mature enough for playing mature roles. Anyways, this is the kind of plot which interests me a lot. Even by looking at the poster I could make out that this is gonna be an old school horror ( a kind of rare in modern times). It surely is.

The movie follows a simple plot and is quite assumable even in the beginning. So one thing I would suggest you all is to keep your brain out of your head and watch it just for the horror's sake. Arthur Kipps travels to a remote village to sell the Eel Marsh House. Now the house is haunted (not just house, but the village). That's it. Whatever follows are the situations and the drama part. Still I liked it much. It's been a long time I watched such a horror movie. Its devoid of any blood spills and other gore stuff. What you'll see is pure horror. Daniel has done nice if we can get rid of his earlier image. The direction is nice as there are few sudden scenes to make you jump. I liked the cinematography really. It creates a proper creepy environment. Nothing else that I would like to mention here. It's surely a scary watch and you'll like it definitely. There are some weak points but I never said its a perfect movie.

Scary

7 on 10