Horror Films Without Ghosts: Ghosts and the supernatural usually come to one’s mind when someone thinks about horror. Sadly, this is where horror movies take a back seat-like movies, some of which are true-life accounts with so much horror into exploring the evil side of men. Horror from this listing in JioCinema/Hotstar is from the more extensive real-life accounts-a history of human cruelty.
Ek Villain is the nice mix of romance with some really chilling exploits of crime which ends up with the fate of a man who seeks revenge after the ghastly murder of his wife. At the heart of this film is a psychopathic antagonist-centers its horror in disturbingly real accounts of cruelty.
Kaabil shows how a blind man’s perfect world got turned upside down, and before long, havoc broke loose with his wife’s rape and grisly death. This pulse-pounding revenge drama delivers in the end: resilience and intelligence against evil. The horrors are then born from the severe depiction of prey that predators seize.
Apurva is a survival thriller where a girl is kidnapped and taken to some barren desert, where she fights her way against strong criminals. The tension in the film is mainly on her desperate struggle to survive in a very helpless atmosphere where no one listens to her pleas for help.
An account of the rich horror from a little child’s abduction is what the movie Ugly, directed by Anurag Kashyap, is all about: a full saga of betrayal, greed, and corruption. It is a ghost-free horror story in which human selfishness so antagonistically destroys lives that any supernatural scorn.
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Based on true events, Love Sonia follows the deep, dark, and perilous journey of a teenage girl who tries to trace her sister into the world of human trafficking. It exposes some dark, ugly, and horrific truths of exploitation and abuse, rendering it excruciatingly painful to watch.
This reminds us that that kind of real-life horror does not pertain to haunted houses or spirits but to darkness residing within people. They tend to linger after viewing long when reality becomes scarier than fiction.