Horror Story (film)

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Horror Story
Horror-Story-movie-poster-2013.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAyush Raina
Written byVikram Bhatt
Mohan Azad
Sukhmani Sadana (dialogues)
Based on1408 by Stephen King
Produced byASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
StarringKaran Kundra
Radhika Menon
Nishant Singh Malkani
Ravish Desai
Hasan Zaidi
Aparna Bajpai
Nandini Vaid
Sheetal Singh
CinematographyGargey trivedi
Edited byKuldip Mehan
Music byAmar Mohile
Production
companies
ASA Production and Enterprises Pvt Ltd.
Distributed byASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Release date
  • 13 September 2013 (2013-09-13)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹6 crore (US$800,000)[1]
Box officeest. ₹7 crore (US$930,000)[1]

Horror Story is a Bollywood dramatic horror film written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Ayush Raina.[2] The film stars Ravish Desai and Hasan Zaidi, and features the Bollywood movie debut of noted television actors Nishant malkani and Karan Kundra.[3] The film was released on 13 September 2013.[4] The plot revolves around a night spent by seven youngsters at a haunted hotel. The film received positive reviews but was declared "Average" at the box office.[1][5] The film is based on the Stephen King short story 1408.

Plot[]

Vikrant Nerula enters the deserted Grandiose Hotel alone. He proceeds to Room 3046 and commits suicide by throwing himself off the terrace.

Seven friends, Sam (Samraat), Maghhesh, Achint, Neel, Neena, Sonia and Maggie, reunite in a local pub after several years apart to celebrate the farewell of Neel, who is going abroad. They learn about an abandoned hotel which was originally been a mental asylum for the criminally insane, but was almost completely destroyed in a fire, the ruins were refurbished into a five star hotel. Rumours state that he was pushed into suicide by the ghost of an asylum inmate.

They try to enter the hotel through the main door, but as it is locked, they enter through the back door instead. Neena observes strange phenomena, but Neel brushes her claims aside. They find a TV set on with no transmission or power. Followig this, Achint and Neel hear a voice saying, "WELCOME TO DIE". Ignoring it as a hallucination, they proceed to Room 3046, where Sam is killed. The group flees in panic and realise that they are trapped inside the hotel with no way out. Achint and Maghhesh go to the terrace to try and find a mobile signal, yet Maghhesh is killed by spirits.

The group is then terrorised by a woman's ghost, which drags Sonia into the darkness. With three people dead, the remaining four find an abandoned Jeep which they use to try to get out of the hotel, amidst ghostly apparitions. After a drive through misty areas, the group escape, only to find that they are back at the door of Room 3046. They realise that the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.

However, they are soon confronted by Sonia, whom Achint and Neel think is the ghost, but a tearful Sonia tells them that it is really her. The group learns that, when the hotel was a mental asylum, a possessed girl named Maya (Sheetal Singh) was admitted after she murdered her entire family. Maya would always claim to have 'married the devil', and would become very violent at the hospital, even killing the doctors and causing the fire that broke out and killed all the inmates. The group thus realise that it is Maya who is haunting them.

Sonia attempts to contact Maya to find out what she wants. She receives a call from Maya, saying that the spirit wants to kill them all and nothing else. The group then discover that Sonia is actually dead and Maya is speaking through her. Neena asks the time from Neel, only to be told that it is the same time (3:55 AM) she had seen on the clock in one of the rooms shortly after entering the hotel. Believing it is some kind of intuition, they decide to go back to the same room to understand Neena's extrasensory perception.

There they find a book containing paranormal explanations and a way to locate an energy source of dark spirits. With the help of incantations from the book, they have visions of the past. They see that the hotel was a mental asylum and find that the energy source of the dark spirit is in a shock machine. They decide to burn it down to end the horror.

Neel and Maggie go to kitchen in search of something flammable. Maggie sees a female spirit sitting on chair and reading newspaper. When she reaches towards her, Neel again brushes her aside. Maggie is killed by Maya who appears in the form of Neel. Achint is beheaded by the spirit, leaving only Neel and Neena alive.

Neel tries to burn the machine, but is pulled by the spirit into a closet. The spirit starts terrorizing Neena. Neena starts a fire. Amidst ghostly apparitions and obstructions, and with the help of the spirit of Vikrant Narula (who had died at the beginning of the film), she manages to burn the machine. This results in the destruction of Maya's spirit. The film ends with the entrance doors of the hotel opening at dawn and a traumatized Neena, the only survivor, walking outside.

Cast[]

Production[]

Of the film, Bhatt has stated that he did not want Horror Story to contain any songs or sex scenes.[6] He also remarked that he wanted to avoid casting "big stars" in the film, as he believed that they "cannot turn the audience fearful" in what he termed a "hardcore horror film".[6][7] Ravish Desai has commented that the movie will be the first in a franchise and that planning for further films has already begun.[8]

Bhatt had earlier made films in the same genre, namely 1920, 1920: Evil Returns and Haunted. In an interview, he commented, "While [my] Raaz 3 and 1920 were romantic sagas with songs and full-on drama, this one is more of a Hollywood kind of drama. The horror lies in the story."[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Horror Story - Movie - Box Office India
  2. ^ "'Horror Story' has horror from the first scene to the last: Bhatt". The Times of India. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Vikram Bhatt's tryst with horror continues". The Times of India. 23 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Vikram Bhatt spooks media with 'Horror Story'". India Glitz. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Vikram Bhatt's HORROR STORY preponed". GlamSham.com. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  6. ^ a b "No sex in Vikram Bhattâ's Horror Story". The Times of India. 24 August 2013. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Vikram Bhatt's 'Horror Story'". MSN India. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  8. ^ "No set formula for success in Bollywood, says Karan Kundra". IBN Live. 24 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  9. ^ "I like to sell fear: Vikram Bhatt". Sakaaltimes. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2013.

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