Shubhangi Aggarwal

"No one can make us leave this house." Ahh, cringe line which we hear in all the horror movies. Well, a galvanic and a movie full of suspense by Alejandro Amenábar; The Others (2001) comes up with a very twisting, mind numbing and mysterious plot. Grace, a single mother whose husband have left her and their two kids alone for a war has been shown undertaking responsibility of a big house with photosensitive children. An over protective, possessive but loving mother is shown with her character. The story starts with 3 new servants entering the house who later revealed that they have worked in the house earlier as well. A haunted house where noone stays and everyone leaves as soon as possible. Grace is very religious and have a great faith in god. Although, she don't believes her elder child Anne at the beginning about her stories that there's someone else also living in the house and she plays with a child named Victor because it is Anne's basic nature to create such stories and quail her younger brother who she keeps on calling a coward. The children fears their mother as they had witnessed her mad side once but at that time, that was due to stress. But yet again, same thing happened when she saw an old horrid woman in her daughter and tried to kill her. The ending turns out to be confounding. The truth if the 3 servants was revealed and even Anne and her children's as well. The movie was based upon the view of ghosts and not the living people. Hence, ending was eye popping. According to me, this movie is maybe monotonous because of persistent, unsolved suspense but it's story line, the beliefs and knowledge is pretty good and something which one should know. If you love horror mystery, then I would like to strongly recommend you to watch this movie.

Everyone wants a day to escape, it depends upon our choice that which mode we choose. 2017’s movie; Escape Room is about the same concept, but here the choice of that escape was different yet sombre. Director Will Wernick filmed a lurid horror thriller movie with Elisabeth Hower and Evan Williams in the leading cast. The story starts with Tyler’s (Will Wernick) birthday on a very innocuous and sentimental romantic note. The couple (Tyler & Christian) goes on a dinner with their friends and everything was boisterous for about half an hour of movie when Christian presented the passes to a suspicious game; Locker Room as a birthday gift to her boyfriend. After the party, six of them enters the game by entering a car and blind folding themselves. After some time, all of them find themselves in some mysterious room; one couple, one room but Tyler was set alone. The final stage of the game was to recue Christian who was locked in a cage and could be seen on a screen. On solving the puzzles, everyone could be united and game proceeds this way. They just had an hour in this game, an hour which changed everything. The game seemed pretty cool till the time two of them died because of acid and the game became a bloodshed life-death puzzle. One by one, everyone died except for Tyler, who by solving the puzzles finally reached Christian and felt that she cheated him due to which all his friends are dead now. The final puzzle was to choose either him/her or myself and at the end, only Christian escaped. Now the question is, who cheated whom and “Who really escaped?” The movie gave me goose bumps and the deaths were really dire and terrific. Game took a great turn at the end and the ending was mind-blowing. The movie made me intrigue though I felt that the concept could be better and the final stage of the game could be more unforeseeable. Well, I needed an hour of escape from my daily routine and undoubtedly, I got one.

“You cannot cheat the natural phenomenon.” A meritorious and intriguing movie directed by Steven Quale supported with supernatural horror and mysterious elements; Final Destination 5. With Nicholas D’Agosto, Miles Fisher, Emme Bell and Tony Todd in the leading cast, the movie undoubtedly presented a whole new concept over a very basic philosophy really well. The story started with a couple breaking up and a retreat office trip. While in the bus, Samuel had a vision of bridge collapsing and everyone in the bus dying, except for Molly (his ex). And when he woke up from the nightmare, same happened but he got the signs and saved a few, in time. Later, one by one people from the same group started dying, that too because of accidents, mitigating bloodshed accidents. But at every accident’s location one face remains similar; a man, mysteriously warning and smiling. When at the last, just 4 were left, they asked the man about this game and he told that you tried to betray the nature, and that’s not how things work, you need to revert the game. Killing someone and adding his days of life to oneself is the solution and they used this solution, added days to their life still everyone died at the end, in an accident brings thriller and horror as well. Movie was premeditated really well with cynosure aspects and balanced approach. Sometimes you need to shut your eyes at the death scenes due to extreme bloodiness. I knew the genre of the movie, i.e; horror from the very beginning of the movie and was waiting for the ghost to come but things turned pretty nice and finally, movie’s title was justified; everyone reached their Final Destination.