Director : Vikram Bhatt
Music : Chirantan Bhatt
Lyrics : Junaid Wasi and Shakeel Azmi
Starring : Mahakshay Chakraborthy, Tia Bajpai, Arif Zakaria and Mohan Kapoor
Horror has become Vikram Bhatt's synonym now; After giving spine-chilling, edgy films like RAAZ, 1920, SHAAPIT, etc in the past Vikram is once again back with his loved genre with HAUNTED - 3D. And with his latest outing he takes horror to the next level in Indian Cinema. For the first time in the history of bollywood we meet horror in 3D Format.
Set in the misty mountains, the story of HAUNTED 3D revolves around the sprawling Glen Manor, a mansion with a secret past and a haunted present. Rehan visits Glen Manor to complete its sale, which his father had initiated through their broking firm. Once there, in no time he realizes about the mysterious occurrences in the manor. He sets out to find the ugly truth.
As Rehan investigates and begins to unearth the bitter past of the house he discovers a painful 80-year old secret the story of Meera and her "Sex Maniac" piano professor Mr. Iyer. Rehan strongly feels for it & wants to free innocent Meera's spirit from the clutches of the professor's evil spirit is what ensues.
Vikram Bhatt seems to be so much into the genre that he knows pretty well how and where to scare the living day lights out the perfect horror elements including using silence as a tool to evoke fear. He clearly aims to chill his gullible audience irrespective of the story.
A lot of portions in "HAUNTED 3D" like the story set in a certain era, distorted faces, flying & hanging corpses, the technical aspects, etc has been picked from his earlier outings and blended with a time travel concept.
Though HAUNTED - 3D has its share of cliches that collage any typical horror film it also has some novel things to talk about like not one but two spirits, no usual revenge story here, the time travel thing, etc. Ironical as it may sound but the potency of the film lies in the old horror formula and not the above mentioned novel Endeavours.The director doesn't waste time in laying the ground and right from the word go shoots up the scare-quotient. Infact it's those opening edge-of-the-seat sequences that are truly frightening and gives you a jerk.
In the first half itself we are given away the cause behind the entire inexplicable happenings and the key to the problem. The second half just follows it. Though there are enough predictable moments, yet Vikram Bhatt holds it tight until the very climax. Talking about the climax then HAUNTED dwells in two endings and we don't want to divulge either.
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