Bhoot - Part One: The Haunted Ship

One reason the horror genre doesn't really get the respect it deserves is that the makers almost always resort to the same set of clichés and scary tropes to elicit fear out of the audience. Of course, there are horror films that deviate from the usual templates and use novel ways of sending chills down our spines, like A Quiet Place and Hereditary, but Bhoot does not belong to this category.

The movie opens with a shot of a mother singing a lullaby to her three-year-old daughter Meera. If you are into horror movies, you'd know that that wouldn't be the last time you'd hear that ....