2020 · horror · fantasy · thriller
Bulbbul
Directed by Anvita Dutt1h 34m2020
A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.
Our read: Bulbbul (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · fantasy · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
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