Tumbbad

A great-looking and at times effectively creepy tale about the curse of greed. The few songs were integrated nicely, the location where the main supernatural events take place has a wonderful claustrophobic quality to it, even the CGI creature design worked. I always like it when there's specific rules to a process that people can then creatively exploit, so the climax got a great 'oh nooo!' panicky reaction out of me. A simple story, told well.

Traditional folk horror, that wisely doesn't try to update the story itself for a modern audience and instead focuses on lush visuals and giving the simple but effective plot real weight. A passion project, apparently, and it shows; there's sweat and blood on the canvas. Especially blood. And the ending is excellent.

A good modern mythological tale.

Yes, there is a couple of upbeat Indian songs, as well as many other peculiarities of Bollywood movies are in place, creating altogether an unforgettably weird backdrop for a horror. The story, but not the storytelling, is good enough, though.

Hindistan, Konak, Ev, Şeytani varlıklar, Mitoloji, Aç gözlülük, metres, baba-oğul, yer altı

Good work in cinematography, excellent job at creating atmosphere with the help of music and light and sound.

2024'de #IzlediğimFilmler ; 69. Tumbbad (2018) Açgözlülük üzerine Hindi bakış açısı ile güzel bir deneyim yaşatıyor. Korku öğeleri de bence gayet yerinde. 7/10

It was clear from the beginning how it was going to end, otherwise pretty good, well acted as far as I could tell taking cultural differences into account. Visually strong.