‘Half’ Review: Hip-Hop Beats & Brutal Beatings In Samjad’s Fast, Fun, Super-Violent Indian Vampire Horror Movie – Sitges Film Festival

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Two halves make a satisfying whole in this lean, mean action-horror, in which twin vampires stalk a scorching-hot Madras Max: Fury Road dystopia in the none-too-distant future. The 1996 Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn springs immediately to mind, but, compared to that, director Samjad sinks his teeth into the meat of his movie in next to no time. Scored with an urgent techno-bhangra beat by Midhun Mukundan, the result is a violent revenge thriller that has been lapped up on the genre circuit since it premiered in the Midnight Madness strand at TIFF this year.

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