Back early this summer the trailer for Ghoul hit and it was very exciting for me. It is an Indian production based on Arabic legends and was made by Netflix. I know for some people that doesn’t sound like the greatest thing ever but as a horror fan I am lucky to realize the wider the range of voices in your media the better. Horror as a genre is our most primal and has always been a mirror to the society that makes it. Usually without realizing it, horror trends tell us what a society really fears and what it values. Individual horror movies make excellent vehicles for getting across a message. So horror movies from other countries are always rich in both a way to gain insight to another place and also because it can be unsettling in surprising ways because you see things you didn’t know were coming because they come from such a different place. There’s a reason once Asian horror hit our shores 20 years ago it was suddenly everywhere. People couldn’t get enough of it because it was so fresh. And I was hoping for the same from this. I mean, not to spark a revolution but I have seen very, very few Indian horror movies because horror movies were always rare in Bollywood cinema and still are pretty uncommon and my knowledge of Indian cinema does not extend past Bollywood. So a miniseries horror show from India? Awesome. Tapping into an under used legend? Awesome. And the verdict? Well, it’s not bad. I dug it and I dug it for a lot of the reasons above. I am not an expert on Indian society but this seemed to have strong things to say about the government crack down on free speech that has been going on (the phrase “It can be hard to make an intellectual a good citizen” was scary and scary in a way that crosses cultures). On top of that it is creepy and unsettling at times and really ends well. Add in that it introduced me to Radhika Apte who fucking rules. I am completely unfamiliar with her and her work because she isn’t a Bollywood actress I guess? She’s a Kollywood actress. And my knowledge of Bollywood is pretty spotty, you get to other language families and regional cinemas and it’s really not much at all. My whole association wiht Tamil has to do with politics in Sri Lanka, so that’s basically nothing. No, that is nothing. So I have no knowledge of her other work but she’s cool as fuck here. It seems like a hard role, or at least a hard role for me as an outsider to connect with maybe. There is not a lot in my experience that should connect with her character, she feels very alien to me. But I did. I cared a lot. I liked her a lot. So I am posting her. Today I want to fuck Radhika Apte.