![]() But when their romance exponentially ratchets up Basu’s desire to punish in the second half, it does lead to some agreeably high-strung set pieces, like an imagined swarm of insects emerging from bathroom drainpipes, and a frenzied climax that cross-cuts between a morgue and the spirit world.īut it’s Basu who nails the gothic flash of it all, hardly needing the patina of 3-D to conjure a slinky throwback to fiendishly carnal temptresses of movies past. ![]() ![]() Under Vikram Bhatt’s no-frills direction, the inevitable uh-oh love story between accomplice and victim feels perfunctory - and Gupta and Hashmi are earnest yet dull. If your taste for cheesy movie horror has been ill-fed by the current vogue for moody found-footage pieces, the 3-D Bollywood entry"Raaz 3" - forged from equal parts"All About Eve,” Orpheus and the blood-sex oeuvre of Hammer and Brian De Palma - could pick up the slack.įelicitously erotic Bipasha Basu brings some old-school witchy vengeance to the part of Shanaya, a fading leading lady so unnerved by the rising prominence of a sweetly sexy newcomer (Esha Gupta) that she calls on black magic spirits - and the help of her director boyfriend (Emraan Hashmi) - to drive her rival insane. ![]()
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