The movie starts with the happy life of a mom and a daughter back in 1934. At present in 2016, Dr. Krishnakumar / Krish (Siddharth), a successful neurosurgeon, and his wife Lakshmi (Andrea Jeremiah) live peacefully in their beautiful house under the mountains in Rosina Valley. The D'Costa family moves into the next house, which belonged to the mother & daughter years ago. Jennifer D'Costa/Jenny (Anisha Angelina Victor) is a troubled teenage daughter of the neighbors. Though she is rebellious, she deeply loves her family and her half-sister Sarah. Jenny & Sarah come to meet Lakshmi and make friends with her. Jenny is instantly attracted to Krish's charm.
The D'Costa's invite Krish and Lakshmi for dinner, and while exploring the house, Krish sees Jenny jumping into the well and saves her. Jenny's rebellious nature makes her do things like smoking and during one such time, when she sneaks out of the house for a smoke, she picks up some belongings of a dead person. Jenny starts to act weird soon and sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff where her father Paul D'Costa(Atul Kulkarni) and Krish save her yet again. Jenny's grandfather contacts a psychic, but Paul refuses to take any help from him. Krish refers them to his psychiatrist friend, Dr Prasad, (Suresh) who gives Jenny a hypnotherapy session, and she tells him that there is someone telling her family to leave the house and then Jenny starts speaking in Chinese. Dr.Prasad concludes she has developed Paranoia with visual and auditory hallucinations and advices Paul to perform an exorcism, since he is sure of some paranormal behaviors happening with Jenny. Paul calls Pastor Joshua to perform the exorcism, and they find that their new house is haunted by three ancient Chinese spirits, and one of them is a bloodthirsty man, while the other two spirits are the mom and the daughter who want the family to get out of the house without trouble. The exorcism session cures Jenny, but the violent antics of the spirits injure Pastor Joshua who falls into a coma, while Krish and Paul are injured.
Things seem normal and Laxmi finds out that she is pregnant. But one day, the maid in Paul's house disappears. Krish and Lakshmi also witness increasing paranormal disturbances in their daily lives. Paul finds some disturbing evidences in his house and agrees to call the psychic from earlier, and he reveals the presence of a mother and daughter spirit, asking them to leave. He also discovers their skeletal remains in the nearby cliff edge, along with the male spirit's remains.
Meanwhile, Dr.Prasad feels that there is more to the story of the spirits from Jenny's exorcism and upon researching, he finds that there is a witness who knows what happened in Paul's house 80 years ago, an old lady from the village. So Krish and Dr.Prasad visit the old lady, who reveals that the man of house Lu Wei was into black magic, he attempted to kidnap and kill her when she was a child, but his pregnant wife intervened and let her escape. It is shown that Lu Wei tried to perform the human sacrifice as a ritual, so that his next offspring would be a boy. When his ritual was disturbed, Lu Wei heartlessly lures his own daughter and sacrifices her instead. Lu Wei's distraught wife witnesses this and stabs herself in the stomach, killing her and her unborn child and thereby ruining Lu Wei's plans. An enraged Lu Wei commits suicide by drowning himself in the well. The old lady further tells that all these events unfolded during a rare solar eclipse day, and a similar eclipse is bound to happen again the next day.
Krish and Dr.Prasad go back home and seemingly continue to discuss the events. The next day, Lakshmi calls out for Krish and asks him to help Jenny since she is possessed again. When they go to Jenny's house, to Krish's surprise, Lakshmi locks him up in a room. It is then revealed, Pastor Joshua awoke from his coma and told Lakshmi that during Jenny's exorcism, he found that not only Jenny was possessed by the woman's spirit, but Krish was possessed by Lu Wei's spirit and the possession must have happened when Krish jumped into the well and rescued Jenny. Lu Wei now intends to continue where he left off and targets Sarah for his human sacrifice, so that Lakshmi would give birth to a boy. It is shown that a possessed Krish had earlier killed Dr.Prasad too, since he found the truth. Krish breaks free and tries to kill Sarah and causes mayhem, but the Chinese mother daughter spirits overpower him and destroy Lu Wei's spirit from Krish's body as the solar eclipse ends, and Krish gets back to normal.
A few years later, it is shown that Krish's family and the D'Costas are still good neighbors, Lakshmi and Krish now have a son, with whom Jenny and Sarah go to play with. The screen closes in on the boy's eye, which changes to show double irises, implying that he could be demonic, since he was conceived when Krish was possessed by Lu Wei.
The film was planned by Siddharth in June 2016, who revealed that he would work on a horror film alongside actress Andrea Jeremiah to be directed by Milind Rau, who had earlier made the unreleased Kadhal 2 Kalyanam. The title of the film was said to be The House Next Door, and the film was subsequently shot simultaneously in three languages namely Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil.[4] However, the Telugu version was dropped in favor of a dubbed release.[5] The principal photography of the film commenced in August 2016.
But now someone new has moved next door, and Marwick House is slowly waking up. Torn between staying away and warning the new tenant, Josephine only knows that if she isn't careful, she may be its next victim...
Eight months after the Miskatonic Massacre, Doctors Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) return from serving as medics in a South American civil war to take up jobs at the Miskatonic University Hospital. Moving into a house next door to the cemetery, Herbert continues his experiments re-animating the dead. When he comes across the heart of Dan's former lover Megan in the hospital morgue, he gets the idea of bringing her back to life in a body assembled from disparate parts. As you do.
Hastily put together after initial plans for a story involving Herbert West working at the White House proved too costly, Bride of Re-Animator is every bit as much of a patchwork creation as its eponymous character. It frequently feels like a series of gore gags in search of a strong guiding hand. That said, there's no denying that there are some pretty great gags. Meanwhile, the manic energy Combs brings to the role of West ensures that he remains the film's true MVP.
Picture: Arrow's double-disc Blu-ray release uses the same 2K restoration that served as the basis for the 2014 German Blu-ray. And, like that version, this Limited Edition features both 'R-Rated' and 'Unrated' cuts of the film. The first is based on a scan of a second-generation intermediate interpositive, while the additional material for the uncut version was sourced from a 35mm composite master. While the picture quality for both cut is generally very good, differences in clarity and colour density are apparent in the uncut sequences.
Picture rating: 4/5
The granddaddy of "splatter" movies, this 1974 shocker transcended its low-budget, drive-in origins to become a milestone in horror-movie history. Even today, 30 years later, Texas Chainsaw Massacre retains the visceral force that gripped Watergate-era moviegoers and left them quaking in their seats. While not the first film directed by Tobe Hooper, it was far and away his best up to that time; he followed it with such worthwhile genre entries as Eaten Alive, The Funhouse, and Poltergeist (that last with assistance from Steven Spielberg), but even the director's most fervent acolytes agree that Massacre remains his magnum opus. Based loosely on the case of real-life serial killer Ed Gein (which also inspired Psycho and, for that matter, Ed Gein), this gritty chiller pits a group of young revelers against a deranged, rural Texas family practicing cannibalism in their remote, ramshackle home. Hooper's perverse vision suffuses every frame, and his "Leatherface," played by Gunnar Hansen, is the epitome of the American hunter gone insane. Of the other cast members -- all unknowns -- only leading lady Marilyn Burns stands out, but she is unforgettable as the lone survivor of this bloody rampage, brutalized almost beyond belief and propelled only by her will to live. Although Massacre isn't nearly as gory as many of the subsequent films it helped spawn, it has a surfeit of graphic, disturbing images that remain indelibly etched on the American pop-culture psyche: who can forget the suit-and-tie-clad "Leatherface," wearing a mask stitched quilt-like from the skinned flesh of his victims, racing through the house and yard with chainsaw in hand? Macabre and unrelenting, but not without memorable moments of black humor, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre habitually places high on lists of the Top Ten Horror Movies, and once you've seen it you'll know why!
Fans of today's gore-and-guts shockers may be surprised to learn that this notorious shocker is among the least bloody of modern horror films. But looks can be deceiving. It still packs quite a punch, and may well be the scariest film ever made. Director Tobe Hooper adopts a documentary-like style using static set-pieces, grainy film and a no-nonsense technique. This method was necessitated by budget, of course -- the film was made for next-to-nothing, using drama students from the University of Texas -- but for some odd reason, it works. It's not really a movie. As it unfolds, it comes across as a filmed nightmare, and it gets under the viewer's skin like no horror movie before or since. The scene in which Marilyn Burns is held captive at the cannibal family's dinner-table is almost surrealistic in its relentless depiction of insanity and horror. By the time they wheel down Grandpa (John Dugan), it's nearly unbearable. Suffice it to say that fans of relentless horror should make this film their first priority.
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