Darkness Visible review – mystery and murder on the streets of Kolkata
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story
The dialogue is a bit stilted sometimes, and, once all the wrapping is off, the big reveal is slightly silly, but this rare instance of a western-style horror film set in India is an intriguing, largely inventive genre exercise.
Directed by Neil Biswas, and co-written by Biswas and Ben Hervey, it stars Jaz Deo as Ronnie, a London hipster artist of Indian ancestry who celebrates turning 28 in the opening minutes by having sex with his Icelandic rock musician girlfriend (Salóme Gunnarsdóttir). In time-honoured tradition, this moment of pleasure is soon punished by all manner of freaky happenstance, as Ronnie starts bleeding and feels compelled to draw cityscapes of places he’s never been, which of course prove prophetic.
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