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Andhar Maya on Zee5 in 7 episodes in Marathi, has a tonally felicitous feel to it. You feel you are in the midst of something ominous, something eerie . But the series never reaches the culmination that it seems to promise initially when an entire clan of property seekers descend after the death of the patriarch in Konkan village.

This is well trodden territory. For it to impress us, there needed to be far more enormity in the content. Director Bhimrao Mude and his writers adhere to familiar terror tropes like that patent someone-is-watching camera angle that is here pushed in anytime there is a scarcity of genuine moodiness, and that is quite frequently.

The well-known Marathi actor Kishore Kadam pretty much holds the show together, although there are way too many closeups of his face expressing an unnecessary grotesquerie His role gets progressively ghoulish until we reach the closing episode where...

Cinephobia Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘Brute 1976’

Exclusive: Cinephobia Releasing has bought U.S. rights to Marcel Walz and Joe Knetter’s Brute 1976 from Canada’s Raven Banner Entertainment. The film, which Walz (That’s a Wrap) directed and Knetter (Twilight of the Dead) wrote, is billed as an homage to 1970s horror classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Cinephobia plans to debut the film over the summer with a limited theatrical run followed closely by an on-demand and digital release. It takes place in 1976 and follows a woman and her girlfriend whose car breaks down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. At the same time, a group of people in the desert for a photoshoot stumble upon an abandoned town where a family of masked psychopaths reside. ”Brute 1976 is bloody and sexy, with a deranged family...