13B

Not so bad good movie

Pretty scary. A few out of place musical numbers and a way too happy ending keep this from being perfect horror.

i think this film have gave me a awesome experience and fulfil felling and no more words to express this film

One of the best thriller film made in Tamil...if not the best...has plenty of twists and background score is simply awesome

Bollywood One Of The Best Horror movie

One of the best horror/suspense/mystery movies to come out of Bollywood after a very long time.

This movie is much better than many of the horror films made in Hollywood.

http://letterboxd.com/zbender/film/13b-fear-has-a-new-address/ This film has me split. The thing about 13B is that the story is actually a well done thriller. But the quality is severely hampered by the runtime. I kept track and in no way did I have any actual feeling or care toward the film until around 55 minutes. The suspense in other words takes a long time to really build up. At first I became confused as to what the film was trying to be. Was it mocking telenovelas? It's bloated running time, and random cheesy music videos sort of indicated that. Was it horror? There were some cheap jump scares, but that didn't startle me. The film settled on suspense and it ran quite well for the remainder of the film. The story is nicely wrapped up at the end and left me satisfied. Again, the only problem that I really took note of was the runtime.

Surprisingly creepy and well done for an Indian horror movie, but the big reveal is easy to pick up on by the watchful eye.

13B (Vikram K. Kumar, 2009) I've probably seen a half-dozen Bollywood attempts at horror since I started this all-consuming Bollywood phase of my movie-viewing existence back in 2005 or so. To a one they've been horrific (and not in the proper way). There's just something about scary monsters that doesn't mix with romance subplots and big musical numbers, you know? But I keep telling myself that if I dig deep enough, I'm going to find the perfect Bollywood horror film. And this brings us to my viewing of 13B yesterday. This second feature from Vikram K. Kumar kicks off with an interesting, if derivative, storyline, and then brings in the cheese...and keeps heaping on block after block until, by the end of the tale, the movie smells rather like a fromagerie. (Honest to Limburger, if you don't see that final scene and laugh like a loon, you're lacking a funny bone. The pathetic thing is, it's not supposed to be funny.) Plot: Manohar (3 Idiots' Madhavan) and his extended family just got a killer deal on a brand new condo. They move in and set about getting the place livable, but odd things start happening. In the opening scene, we find out that milk bought just the day before has already curdled. Manohar's phone works everywhere else, but takes distorted pictures in the apartment. Their blind neighbor in 13A, Kamdar (Black's Dhritiman Chatterjee), has a service dog who refuses to set foot in the apartment. You know what all these things mean, because you've seen more than three horror movies in your life. Meanwhile, the women of the household have found themselves a new series to watch-but when Manohar catches a glimpse of it one day, he realizes that the events portrayed in the TV show bear startling parallels to the lives of Manohar's own family and friends. Manohar, with the help of his pal Shiva (Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na's Murli Sharma), a police inspector, has to figure out what's going on before the events being foreshadowed in the serial come to pass. It's not a bad conceit, which is shown by the fact that it's been done so many times before. But it is entirely lacking in horror-film atmosphere. Thus my statement above that the normal Bollywood trappings don't mix with horror films, but there's also a huge amount of unnecessary exposition here that undercuts any tension the script (written by Kumar) may have been able to generate. "Show, don't tell" is the golden rule in media for a reason. And this is why that last scene, which I don't think I've ever seen work well, here ends up being laughable; given enough atmosphere, it might not have worked, but it would have at least been mildly effective. Ultimately, the two best thins about this movie are (a) for me, it reminded me that I need to go back and watch 3 Idiots and Black, both movies I've been meaning to get round to for years, and (b) my son, who will be two in a few months and is entirely enchanted with Indian film music (I've got an Asha Bhosle Pandora station set up just for him), found the music video that plays over the end credits fascinating enough that he actually stopped dancing for a while just to stare at the TV. (I was not nearly as thrilled with the song as he was, but I'm not going to complain about the video all that much.) I continue to hope that one day Bollywood will come up with a fantastic horror movie. After seeing 13B, I need to keep looking. **