raghuncs@gmail.comon 12th Dec 2022, 9:09am | Permalink
"But the dragging finale, as all the creepy sounds crescendo and the eerie visuals saturate the screen, is ironically the least scary - a bit like touring the same Haunted House for the fifth time, knowing fully well that the "blood" is tomato ketchup, the axes are made of cardboard, and the "ghosts" are teenagers in costumes". You just read my mind :)
Overall it was a good horror fest attempt. Theatre was roaring!
Horror gets the stepchild treatment in Tollywood cinema. Just a handful of scary movies make it to the Big Screen in a year. Pure horror is even rarer, with the genre often mellowed by comedy (as in Raju Gari Gadhi) or spiritual symbolism (Chandramukhi). Not Masooda, though. Jam-packed with jumpscares and mindless violence, Masooda is an unfiltered scare-fest for fans of the genre.
Masooda's story begins in a most beguiling manner - almost like a sweet, middle-class drama. Single mother Neelam (Sangeetha Krish) is struggling to make ends meet for herself and her daughter Faziya.....