Orphan
This is the story of a couple who adopt a nine-year-old girl called Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) and the mother notices some strange behaviour with the girl. Probing further, she realises that Esther is a 33-year-old mentally unstable woman who suffers from a rare disorder that stunted her physical growth. The climax is not recommended for the weak at heart.
Chernobyl Diaries
In this movie two couples decide to go out on an “extended tour” to Pripyat, which is an abandoned town that sits in the shadow of the Chernobyl plant, that met with a catastrophic nuclear accident 30 years ago. They are forced to stay the night in the van and end up clashing with a horde of mutants. This is a low-budget movie that creates the perfect mood and atmosphere for the viewer to get terrified.
Grave Encounters
In this film, the setting is Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where there have been instances of paranormal activity since its closure. A ghost investigation television crew lock themselves for a much-hyped overnight surveillance campaign. They panic and split up, and one by one they die in gruesome ways. The movie has more than enough disturbing twists right through.
Diabolique
This movie stands out as a great example of not just a perfect star cast (boasting of Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri and Kathy Bates), but also serves as a good example of a cleverly twisted psychological-thriller which will make you try to figure out what exactly happened. A great suspense classic retold in a modern way with the original flavour retained.
Mama
A supernatural, horror-fantasy movie that grips your attention right from the start. A stockbroker seems to be caught in a financial crisis and takes his children to the forest. He plans to kill the children and commit suicide. But a shadowy figure strangles him. Five years after, a rescue operation finds these children. Soon, a shadowy monstrous figure arrives and starts claiming ownership of the children.
Peter Premraj,
works as LMS administrator in Chennai, and aspires to emerge as a full-time film critic
