The Village

"Every time a creator dares to explore a new space, especially if it’s in this risky railroad of a genre called ‘horror’, you wish for it to be novel enough to forgive its shortcomings. But The Village, billed as India’s first live-action adaptation of a graphic novel, is an unforgivably banal, corny and utterly contrived attempt that at times comes off as a mock-up of the done-to-dust horror tropes." "Firstly, throughout its six-episode run, The Village punishes you with mind-numbingly campy dialogues. Let slip even the exposition dumps and how unoriginal they are, the dialogues are somehow stretched beyond effect and at times repeated. A petrified man lights up a cigarette only to be politely told that it might attract unnecessary attention. Only to be followed by, “Also, smoking is injurious to health.” We didn’t know! Interactions between stone-cold mercenaries and panic-stricken scientists are decent spaces to introduce some levity but the jokes you get here make you wish for some skeleton in Kattiyal to wake up and object to such blasphemous attempts at humour." Read the full review here: