Vikram Bhatt, of 1920, the Raaz series, and Haunted fame, said in a recent interview that he wanted to present a horror film that (a) does not have stars (since they distract the audience from scares and thrills), and (b) is not a romance, but a story that revolves around the concept of (Hollywood) horror.
To give him credit, Horror Story (you could not have asked for a blunter, in-your-face title for a film of this genre), manages to scare and creep you out, mostly, without any ludicrous costumes or plots. On the flip side, for an audience that feeds on Hollywood horrors, there....