2018 · horror · fantasy · drama
Tumbbad
Directed by Rahi Anil Barve1h 53m2018
India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.
Our read: Tumbbad (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror · fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / fantasy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
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