Ek Thi Daayan Movie Review

Ek Thi Daayan starts so well that you are riveted. Just about everything in the first half, with its well-calibrated chills, is just as it should be. The second half is unravel time, and you are then left grasping at thin air.

This is the sort of creep-fest which is better creating an uneasy buildup than at actually scaring the pants off you, and perhaps it should have stayed goosepimply instead of going for the jugular.

Until the interval, debutant director Kannan Iyer had me pinned to my seat. There are moments here that made me jump. Konkona is deliciously wicked and at one point, I got so spooked that I closed my eyes.

Not only does it defy most preconceived notions that you might have until the lights go out and the supernatural drama begins to unfold, it also leaves you so befuddled by the end of it all that you dont really know what to make…

It nicely builds up intrigue, but leaves you wanting more in the end nnn

But alas, the film reveals its chinks in the final act when it arrives at an underwhelming climax involving such clich©s as child sacrifice and particularly a human-versus-evil forces face-off that seems straight out of a bad…