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Ghost Stories: la primera película de Bollywood que decidí ver (ES/EN)@ismaelgranados1757d

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El cine de Bollywood tiene una gran fama, siempre he oído que el cine en la India es único y que es una industria con mucha historía y es tan grande como la de Hollywood, sin embargo, todo lo que alguna vez vi sobre Bollywood está relacionado con chistes, o películas con un drama exagerado, por lo que nunca me di la oportunidad de ver una de sus producciones, hasta hoy.

Llegué a Ghost Stories por casualidad mientras buscaba en Google la serie de Haunted Latinoamérica, trasmitida por Netflix, pero no recordaba su nombre, así que me apareció Ghost Stories, y me sorprendió ver que tenía como protagonista a una actriz india llamada Janhvi Kapoor, a quien reconozco porque me ha aparecido en Facebook como publicidad de alguna página. Así, me surgió la curiosidad de ver a esta actriz en escena, y más tratándose de una película de terror, uno de mis géneros favoritos.

Ghost Stories fue producida en 2020 por RSVP Movies y Flying Unicorn Entertainment, y es en realidad una antología de 4 historias de terror, cada historia está dirigida por un director distinto, está en idioma Hindi y fue lanzada en Netflix el primero de enero de 2020.

Cuatro historias de terror distintas

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Debo decir que Ghost Stories me gustó bastante, aunque la crítica y la audiencia según vi, la ponen por suelo, obteniendo un pobre 1.6 por parte del público, y 4.3 por parte de IMDb. Según mi apreciación, la valoraría con un 6.8, no se puede decir que es una excelente película, pero no puedo negar que la disfruté, incluso me hizo subir la adrenalina. No les diré que deben verla, a no ser que sean amantes del cine de terror y tengan curiosidad por ver una de estas producciones de Bollywood, sin importar las consecuencias, no me vayan a culpar de perder 2 horas de su día, yo no siento que las perdí.

A continuación les hablaré un poco de la trama de sus 4 historias de terror.

Historia 1

Esta historia es protagonizada por Janhvi Kapoor, la actriz que atrajo mi atención a este film. Ella personifica a una enfermera llamada Sameera, que asiste a una vieja casa para atender a una anciana que está postrada en cama y que padece una especie de demencia. Esta anciana actúa de manera extraña y con frecuencia llama a Sameera por otro nombre, al mismo tiempo asegura que su hijo se encuentra en la casa, pero no es así. La enfermera empieza a ver sombras bajo la rendija de la puerta de su habitación cada noche, como si alguien caminara por los pasillos, algo intrigante pues la anciana es incapaz de levantarse de su cama por si sola. Finalmente una noche la anciana empieza a hacer mucho ruido y a gritar nombres extraños, la enfermera acude a ver que le está sucediendo, y la anciana le pide que vaya a la cocina y abra la puerta del almacén de alimentos, Sameera lo hace y al abrir la puerta se consigue con una gran sorpresa.

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Sameera mientras oye algunos de los "delirios" de la anciana

Historia 2

Esta es la historia que menos me gustó, es un poco rebuscada y confusa, se trata sobre una mujer embarazada, que debe cuidar a su sobrino, ya que su hermana parece haber muerto o está ausente, su sobrino la quiere como si fuese su madre, pero debido al embarazo su tía ya no puede levantarlo en brazos y hacer las mismas cosas de antes con él, por esta razón el niño empieza a despreciar al bebé que viene en camino, y extrañamente por medio de dibujos, rayando la barriga de su tía, le provoca daños como si se tratara de un muñeco vudú. Su tía tiene por pasatiempo alimentar a unas aves que están anidando en el ático, y cuando inexplicablemente encuentra los huevos de estas aves rotos sobre el suelo, despiertan en ella traumas de la niñez y empieza a tener pesadillas y alucinaciones en los que ella se convierte en ave y pierde a su hijo. Finalmente ella termina enloqueciendo completamente y termina por creer que se está convirtiendo en pájaro, y el responsable de su demencia parece ser de alguna manera su propio sobrino, quien ya no tiene que preocuparse por que su tía lo deje de querer.

Fuente: Captura de pantalla en Netflix

La mujer mientras su sobrino le provoca un fuerte dolor en el vientre

Historia 3

Esta es la historia que más me gustó y la cual incluso me hizo liberar adrenalina. Un hombre llega desorientado a un pueblo que está desierto y en ruinas, y se encuentra con un niño y una niña que lo llevan a su casa, en donde puede observar que los niños no están bajo el cuidado de ningún adulto, cuando el hombre quiere salir de esa casa para continuar su camino, los niños le advierten del peligro, y le dicen que si sale será devorado por el padre de la niña quien ya devoró al padre del niño. El hombre teme, pues afuera se oyen ruidos como de una criatura salvaje, pero finalmente harto de estar allí en incertidumbre decide salir, y se encuentra con un mujer monstruosa, que lo persigue a él y a los niños que deciden salir a ayudarlo. El hombre se da cuenta de que el pueblo está plagado por humanos monstruosos y caníbales, después de una experiencia espantosa y de mucha tensión en donde la niña es devorada, el niño sugiere que se impregnen con la sangre del cadáver de la niña y que se comporten como los monstruos para pasar desapercibidos, pero esto funciona por poco tiempo y finalmente el hombre se ve acorralado por lo los monstruos sin una ruta por donde escapar, sin embargo se salva.

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Uno de los momentos de mayor tensión cuando el monstruo lider está frente a ellos y deben evitar realizar el mínimo movimiento para no ser devorados

Historia 4

La historia final tiene que ver con un matrimonio arreglado, algo típico en la India. La novia se reúne por primera vez con la familia de su novio para conocer si todos están de acuerdo en que se lleve a cabo la ceremonia y todos los están, sin embargo, falta la aprobación de la abuela del novio, la novia se siente muy extrañada cuando se entera de que la abuela está muerta, y lo toma a broma, para luego darse cuenta de que hablan muy enserio. El novio le dice que no se preocupe que él conversara con su abuela. La boda se realiza con éxito, pero su relación empieza a decaer cuando el esposo comienza a hablar solo dirigiéndose a su abuela, y más aún cuando su supuesto fantasma empieza a interferir en la vida íntima de la pareja. La esposa entra en crisis al ver como todos actúan como si la abuela estuviese viva, y entra a lo que en algún momento fue la habitación de la abuela para maldecirla y pedirle que se muestre si realmente está allí. Pero la esposa luego de sentarse a desayunar con toda la familia, siente un fuerte dolor en el estómago y es llevada a una cama y se da cuenta que la familia se ha confabulado para envenenarla, y hacer que se reúna con la abuela, a quien ella termina conociendo del otro lado y quien se burla por haberla retado para que se mostrase, pues ahora la tiene cara a cara.

la abuela.jpg Fuente: Captura de pantalla en Netflix

La esposa se encuentra en el otro lado con la abuela

Esta película además deja entrever algunas características y cosutmbres de la cultura india, por lo que resulta muy interesante, ya que es una cultura de la que muchos no sabemos nada. Me gustaría darme la oportunidad de ver otras producciones.

Espero te haya gustado mi post, si recomiendas alguna excelente película de Bollywood, házmelo saber en los comentarios.

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Bollywood cinema has a great fame, I have always heard that cinema in India is unique and that it is an industry with a lot of history and is as big as Hollywood, however, everything I ever watched about Bollywood is related to jokes, or movies with exaggerated drama, so I never gave myself the opportunity to watch one of their productions, until today.

I came to Ghost Stories by chance while searching on Google for the series Haunted Latin America, broadcast by Netflix, but I didn't remember its name, so Ghost Stories popped up, and I was surprised to see that it starred an Indian actress named Janhvi Kapoor, who I recognize because i have seen her on Facebook as an advertisement of some page. So, I was curious to see this actress on action, and more so being a horror movie, one of my favorite genres.

Ghost Stories was produced in 2020 by RSVP Movies and Flying Unicorn Entertainment, and is actually an anthology of 4 horror stories, each story is directed by a different director, is in Hindi language and was released on Netflix on January 1, 2020.

Four different horror stories

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I must say that I liked Ghost Stories quite a bit, although critics and audiences as I could notice, put it down, getting a poor 1.6 from audiences, and 4.3 from IMDb. In my estimation, I would rate it a 6.8, I can't say it's an excellent movie, but I can't deny that I enjoyed it, it even got my adrenaline pumping. I won't tell you that you must see it, unless you are horror movie lovers and are curious to see one of these Bollywood productions, no matter the consequences, don't blame me for wasting 2 hours of your day, I don't feel I wasted them.

Below I will tell you a little bit about the plot of their 4 horror stories.

Story 1

This story stars Janhvi Kapoor, the actress who drew my attention to this film. She embodies a nurse named Sameera, who goes to an old house to attend to an old woman who is bedridden and suffering from a kind of dementia. This old woman acts strangely and often calls Sameera by another name, while claiming that her son is in the house, but he is not. The nurse begins to see shadows under the gap of her bedroom door every night, as if someone is walking down the hallways, which is intriguing as the old woman is unable to get out of bed on her own. Finally one night the old woman starts making a lot of noise and shouting strange names, the nurse comes to see what is happening to her, and the old woman asks her to go to the kitchen and open the door to the food storage room, Sameera does so and when she opens the door she gets a big surprise.

Source: Screenshot from Netflix

Sameera as she hears some of the old woman's "delusions"

Story 2

This is the story I liked the least, it's a bit stilted and confusing, it's about a pregnant woman, who has to take care of her nephew, as her sister seems to have died or is absent, her nephew loves her as if she were his mother, but due to the pregnancy his aunt can no longer lift him in her arms and do the same things with him as before, for this reason the child begins to despise the baby that is on the way, and strangely by means of drawings, scratching his aunt's belly, he causes her harm as if she were a voodoo doll. Her aunt has a hobby of feeding some birds that are nesting in the attic, and when she inexplicably finds the eggs of these birds broken on the floor, childhood traumas awaken in her and she begins to have nightmares and hallucinations in which she becomes a bird and loses her child. Eventually she ends up going completely insane and ends up believing that she is turning into a bird, and the person responsible for her dementia seems to be somehow her own nephew, who no longer has to worry about his aunt not loving him anymore.

Source: Screenshot from Netflix

The woman as her nephew causes her a severe pain in her belly

Story 3

This is the story that I liked the most and which even made me release adrenaline. A man arrives disoriented to a town that is deserted and in ruins, and meets a boy and a girl who take him to their house, where he can observe that the children are not under the care of any adult, when the man wants to leave that house to continue his way, the children warn him of the danger, and tell him that if he goes out he will be devoured by the father of the girl who already devoured the father of the boy. The man is afraid, because outside he hears noises like a wild creature, but finally tired of being there in uncertainty decides to go out, and meets a monstrous woman, who chases him and the children who decide to go out to help him. The man realizes that the town is plagued by monstrous and cannibalistic humanoids, after a frightening and very tense experience where the girl is devoured, the boy suggests that they impregnate themselves with the blood of the girl's corpse and behave like monsters to go unnoticed, but this works for a short time and finally the man is cornered by the monsters without a route to escape, however he is saved.

Source: Screenshot from Netflix

One of the most tense moments when the monster leader is in front of them and they must avoid making the slightest movement to avoid being devoured

Story 4

The final story has to do with an arranged marriage, something typical in India. The bride meets for the first time with her groom's family to find out if they are all in agreement for the ceremony to take place and they all are, however, the groom's grandmother's approval is missing and the bride is very puzzled when she finds out that the grandmother is dead, and takes it as a joke, only to realize later that they are very serious. The groom tells her not to worry that he will talk to her grandmother. The wedding is a success, but their relationship begins to falter when the husband begins to talk to himself, addressing his grandmother and even more so when her supposed ghost begins to interfere in the couple's intimate life. The wife goes into crisis as she sees how everyone acts as if the grandmother is alive, and enters what was once the grandmother's room to curse her and ask her to show herself if she is really there. But the wife after sitting down to lunch with the whole family, feels a sharp pain in her stomach and is taken to a bed and realizes that the family has conspired to poison her, and make her meet the grandmother, whom she ends up meeting on the other side and who mocks her for daring her to show herself, as she now has her face to face.

the grandmother.jpg Source: Screenshot from Netflix

The wife meets the grandmother on the other side

This film also hints at some characteristics and cosutmbres of Indian culture, so it is very interesting, as it is a culture that many of us know nothing about. I would like to give myself the opportunity to see other productions

I hope you liked my post, if you recommend any excellent Bollywood movies, let me know in the comments.

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›Film Review: 'Ghost Stories' (2017): Sketchy Attempt to Revive the British Portmanteau Horror Film@janenightshade2300d
The British film Ghost Stories from 2017 doesn't live up to the hype.

Ghost Stories (2017), written and directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson; starring Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, and Alex Lawther.

This British “anthology” horror film was hyped as a revival of the great Amicus portmanteau films of the 60s and 70s, which all good horror fans should know and love intensely. While Ghost Stories is full of good ideas, they aren’t fully developed, and the segments are more like brief sketches rather than full stories. In addition, this is a film in which the “wraparound” story is far more important than the segments, which begs the question of why it has segments at all. Heck, the first installment of this pseudo-anthology doesn’t even get underway until more than fifteen minutes into the film.

The story starts with an autobiographical vignette about the main character’s austere Jewish upbringing, and then switches to the present. The main character, Professor Goodman, is played by Andy Nyman, who also co-wrote and co-directed this film. Goodman is a somewhat stereotypical Ashkenazi Jew, guilt-ridden and neurotic. He’s the host of a popular reality show called “Psychic Cheats” that debunks reports of psychic phenomena. We see him go about his show and some of these scenes are grungy and unpleasant. Then we get more grunge and unpleasantness as Goodman visits an elderly psychic debunker named Charles Cameron, who lives in a filthy, dilapidated house trailer. Cameron, who looks like death warmed over, hands Goodman files for three paranormal cases he couldn’t debunk. Goodman takes the files and agrees to investigate. Thus begins the first segment of the film.

It involves the story of Tony Mattews (Paul Whitehouse), a night watchmen at an abandoned asylum. He tells Goodman the story of how he encountered something paranormal in the basement one night. Tony is shown investigating the strange noises in the dark basement and being stalked by the barely seen “something.” These scenes are well-done, but when “the something” finally appears, it’s a total WTF moment. Later, Goodman goes to visit Tony’s priest and has a discussion about faith and God, a scene that feels really out-of-place. There is no character development or explanation of what the basement ghoul actually was.

Second segment deals with an anxiety-ridden teenage kid named Simon Rifkind (Alex Lawther), who is obsessed with Satanism and the occult. Goodman visits the boy’s house and is shown to his room, the walls of which are covered with occult drawings and texts. Rifkind says he tracks the occult because he once ran over the Devil while driving in the woods at night. He tells the story in flashback and it’s mostly about the Devil coming after him for revenge after his car and cell phone break down in the woods. Again, the build-up is effective, but it doesn’t amount to much in the end. Goodman later goes to the same woods and has a creepy experience. The end.

Segment three is the most developed, but that is not saying much. Martin Freeman stars as Mike Priddle, an uppercrust professional man who has recently lost his wife in a difficult childbirth. He tells in flashback the story of the night she died after he went home to do paperwork, expecting her to be hours in labor. While he’s at home, he’s stalked by a poltergeist who focuses on the baby’s room. (This segment uses the same technique as the first and second ones: slow-burn stalking by a "something", then a jump scare. The third time this structure appears is tiring.) After the jump scare, Priddle realizes that his wife is dead and there’s something wrong with his child. Once finished with his tale, he unexpectedly commits suicide in front of Goodman.

Goodman then jumps in his car and drives out to see Charles Cameron; this is where things get really, really weird. I often like weird things, but in this case, the weirdness feels forced and self-consciously hip. It’s the kind of stuff that ages quickly and which will look very lame 10-20 years down the road. I also got tired of the stereotypically portrayed Jewish characters with their nervous ticks, anxieties, guilt complexes, and self-absorption. This is the kind of movie that Woody Allen might direct if he were into weird horror anthologies.

I’ll leave the final ending to anyone who wants to slog through this odd and disjointed film. Suffice to say, for me this film just doesn’t work very well. It had potential, but it was blown by pretentious Black Mirror-style hipsterism and a kind of Attention Deficit Disorder of the soul. I’d give it a 5.5/10. It's streaming on Hulu at the moment if you want to check it out.

For viewers who want to know what a quality British horror anthology really looks like, watch From Beyond the Grave or The House that Dripped Blood.

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›Ghost Stories (Film): Review.@martinmcfly2655d
The following review makes reference to the 2017 film Ghost Stories, and does not contain spoilers of any type.

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Year: 2017 Category: Horror. Director: Jeremy Dyson. Cast: Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Paul Whitehouse.

Plot

A professor who does not believe in paranormal phenomena investigates three inexplicable cases that somehow concern him: one about an abandoned psychiatric, another related to a traffic accident and one about the spirit of an unborn child.

Opinion

In the film we see the story of Phillip Goodman, from Jewish origin, who resents his religion and even more, with all forms of faith or spirituality, because his father made decisions based on his religion that affected him a lot when was young, so he becomes lonely and skeptical that spends his days denying and ridiculing fraudulent psychics until he finally receives an invitation from his personal idol, Charles Cameron, a paranormal investigator who had a great influence on Phillip's life, with the intention to visit him.

Phillip goes to the address indicated by Cameron, and discovers that he is an old lonely, sick, and lives miserably in a trailer without suitable sanitary conditions, however, decides to show respect to who considers his source of inspiration, but Cameron is rude to Phillip and criticizes his work, accusing him of being selfish and cowardly. When the conversation ends, Charles Cameron gives Phillip three files on the cases he could not resolve, and asks him to solve them.

So in the film we see Phillip investigating the cases that Charles entrusted to him, submerging us in the narration of each of the respective stories.

The direction of Jeremy Dyson was successful, maintains a correct staging, and divided the film according to the stories, I think his main defect was to jump almost directly from one story to another instead of playing more with the climate surrounding the protagonist. The script is good and the direction and performances are responsible for consolidating what is written on the paper.

The performances are good too, Andy Nyman does an acceptable job, but nothing out of the ordinary. Martin Freeman is very well, Alex Lawther plays a character personally adjusted to him, very similar to the one he did in Shut Up and Dance, third episode of season three of Black Mirror, and he does it very well. The rest do an acceptable job too.

My main disagreement towards the film, is more directed to its genre than to the film itself, this is because the horror genre has never managed to scare me, therefore, any kind of attempt to take the spectator by surprise and show horrible faces or ghosts, has no effect on me, I tend to scare more with psychological movies than with movies of this type. However, I must say that when I watch a horror movie I want it to have certain technical characteristics that allow me to enjoy the movie even though I know I'm not going to be scared, and I think this film has those characteristics, it even has a surprising twist that It is probably the most terrifying thing about the film.

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7/10

Good film, technically successful, although obviously not perfect, however you can see it gladly. At the time of publishing this review, this film is available in the Netflix catalog of the UK and Canada.

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For the contest #45 which begins today,I chose the movie Ghost Stories (2017) which is directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. The movie has many positive reviews and is one of the movies that i'm waiting from 2018 and I hope that will surprise me. The movie run just in at film festivals and I'm very curious how will keep his rating. Ghost Stories (2017) have the first release in 20 April in 6 April in UK and Ireland but the date which will count for our contest is 25 April. Let's take a look at some things that can help you to choose the correct rating for the contest :
- the directors of the movie are Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman which don't have a great experience in the directorial field but I hope that they will amaze us
- the cast contain names like Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman (which are the directors and writers of this movie too), Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and others
- the duration is 1h 38min
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›Ghost Stories british horror@mediaguy3090d
This is a low budget horror. But it looks like it might actually be good.

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Espero te haya gustado mi post, si recomiendas alguna excelente película de Bollywood, házmelo saber en los comentarios.

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The following review makes reference to the 2017 film Ghost Stories, and does not contain spoilers of any type.