John Landis, 1983), which was a hit in India. The worst of these appear like an extended three-hour version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (Dir. Commercial requirements in an industry where genre purity is always in question have consigned the horror film to share screen space with the musical, the romance, the comedy, and the melodrama. An unadulterated treatment of the genre, as is understood in Hollywood, has an even more depressing history. For a culture that continues to believe that the metaphysical and corporeal can coexist, deifying both ends of the Manichean spectrum, seeing all creatures as deified by death, and death itself just another state of being, the genre of horror in India’s Tamil cinema, has a miserable output.
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