Cast: Sobhita Dhulipala, Mrunal Thakur, Janhvi Kapoor, Vijay Varma, Surekha Sikri, Kusha Kapila, Avinash Tiwary, Bidita Bag
Director: Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap
Rating: 2.5 stars (out of 5)
From the pure paranormal and macabre to the wickedly grotesque and facetious, Netflix's Ghost Stories, directed by the quartet that helmed the last year's Lust Stories for the streaming giant, straddles a range of impulses across its four tonally distinct segments. Despite the undeniably impressive craftsmanship that the directors and their technicians bring to bear upon the film, the anthology shocks... with its tameness. Tales of horror have never been so imperturbable.
Let alone genuine jump scares, Ghost Stories does not even eke out moments that could be deemed spine-chilling. But that does not mean that it is bereft of merit. Far from it. The film has all the ingredients that it does in terms of narrative devices. It is another matter that not all of them translate into truly petrifying sequences. Parts of it - especially the episodes directed by Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee - are not as spooky as they are intriguing.
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