Bolly Horror

18 Aug 2007 – 31 Aug 2007

The ICA takes a look at the darker side of the south Asian movie industry, from past to present.

Traditional folk tales, myths of reincarnation, hauntings and shapeshifting snakes mix it up with monsters from Western horror culture, drawing on such films as Dracula, The Exorcist and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The whole thing begins and ends with a preview of Pakistan's first gore movie Hell's Ground.

Special thanks to Pete Toombs and Film London

Darna Mana Hai

18 Aug 2007 – 28 Aug 2007

Six stranded friends sit round a campfire telling scary stories, as another scary story unfolds out in the darkness...

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Zibahkhana (Hell's Ground)

18 Aug 2007 – 31 Aug 2007

Five teens go out to have fun and (probably) sex and are duly punished by flesh-eating mutants.

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Nagin

18 Aug 2007 – 22 Aug 2007

A star-studded rape-revenge tale with a uniquely Indian twist - and a shapeshifting snake.

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Purana Mandir

18 Aug 2007 – 25 Aug 2007

The hammy tale of family curses and scary monsters that spawned Bollywood's 80s horror boom.

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Mahal

19 Aug 2007 – 27 Aug 2007

A strange,suspenseful and affecting ghost story, the brilliant 1949 debut from Kamal Amrohi.

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Bandh Darwaza

22 Aug 2007 – 30 Aug 2007

Creepy mystic Nevla helps a desperate couple conceive, and nine months later he wants his payment...

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Bhoot

24 Aug 2007 – 29 Aug 2007

Stylish, tense supernatural high-rise thriller with nods (but no headspins) to The Exorcist.

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