FORMAT: DVD
A woman desperate for a child, sneaks off to the sinister “Black Mountain” to get knocked up by the Dracula-like “Master”. When she finally gives birth to a daughter, the Master demands she join him on Black Mountain. Naturally, she refuses to give up her baby and he has her killed. Her grieving hubby then comes to get revenge, but with his dying breath, the Master places a curse on his daughter. Years later, she falls madly in love with a man who rejects her advances. Soon, she finds herself pulled to Black Mountain where the witches there promise to grant her powers in exchange for her soul. With the help of a magic book, she bewitches her intended love. His friends then team up to break the spell and stop the Master and his evil witches at the Black Mountain.
If all that seems like a lot of plot… well… it kind of is. However, the film moves at a fast pace and is never boring. Since it’s a Bollywood movie, it has a few musical numbers, but honestly there weren’t nearly as many as I was expecting. They aren’t intrusive to the plot and are moderately entertaining for the most part. In fact, it just adds to the bizarre “anything goes” vibe.
Like most Bollywood flicks, it’s long (almost two and a half hours), but there’s enough weird and/or cool and/or goofy shit here to keep just about any genre film lover entertained. There’s Aerobicizing, annoying comic relief, dorky grown ass men wearing Michael Jackson Thriller jackets, some interesting camerawork, a scary bat idol with glowing red eyes, and random Kung Fu fights. It also blatantly steals music from Friday the 13th (and Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein), which ups the overall kitsch factor.
The first half is full of witches and spells and assorted weirdness. By the end of the film, things switch over to a more traditional Dracula type of deal with the red-eyed Master seducing and biting women on the neck. Sure, a lot of this is wildly uneven, but it’s still plenty of fun, and the scene where he flies through a car windshield and bites the driver is legit.
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