Think of a horror movie and what comes to mind is a Ramsay film with khuni panja, creaking doors, puraani haveli, Ramu kaka, and ugly-as-hell monstrous creatures.
Bollywood filmmakers have sort of rediscovered the horror style in the last 20 years. Earlier, it never used to enjoy the protection of A-list actors and big-budget studios but the last two decades observed that changing. Filmmakers have realized its earning potential and have been interested to invest in the genre. It hasn’t fully grown as yet — we have miles to go as turning out a well-rounded product is concerned but we will get there. Bringing you a list of some of the Best Bollywood Horror Movies of the last two decades for you to binge-watch that quarantine.
10. Pizza
Director: Akshay Akkineni
Cast: Akshay Oberoi, dipannita sharma, arunoday singh, Parvathy Omanakuttan
This movie directed by Karthik Subbaraj. Kunal Malkholkar (Akshay Oberoi) is a pizza delivery boy who exists with his wife Nikita (Parvathy Omanakuttan), who is an ambitious novelist and is investigating material for a horror story
Kunal himself doesn’t believe in the paranormal but circumstances force him to believe in it. He concocts a ludicrous story including multiple murders by a mysterious entity to dupe his employer only to experience them later in actuality.
9. Bhoot
The third ram Gopal Verma film on the list, Bhoot was one of those few horror films that starred Bollywood industry A-listers. The film star Ajay Devgan and Urmila in the leading roles as a couple.
They move into a new flat which seems nice from the outside but is haunted. The evil spirit in the house drives the wife to madness and now it is up to her husband to save her from the spirits and save his married life while doing so.and this movie comes to the 9th number on our list of the Best Bollywood horror movie.
8. 13 B
Director: Vikram Kumar
Cast: R Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Deepak Dobriyal, Murali Sharma
Sachin Khedekar.
This one of the unique concepts of a TV serial haunting a middle-class family. Manohar, moves into a new flat, 13B, on the 13th floor with his family, fulfilling his life’s biggest dream. But they encounter a series of unknown incidents, such as milk getting wasted, which are regarded as unlucky by his family but are shrugged off by Manohar. The lift in the building doesn’t work just for him and this fact too doesn’t bother him largely. He begins to see a pattern in what’s happening to the family described in a popular TV program and his own family. The happenings start to mirror each other and sometimes divine things for his family. Spooked, he investigates and finds that a family of eight were murdered in the same area in 1977. And it looks like the vitality which had haunted the earlier family has come to haunt him and his loved ones as good.
7. Stree
Director: Amar Kaushik
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Aparshakti Khurana, Pankaj Tripathi.
Stree is a mix of horror and comedy with a bit of romance thrown in. It is said to be based on real events. A small city supposedly in Madhya Pradesh gets haunted by an entity during the four days of pooja dedicated to a local divinity. Three friends — Vicky (Rajkummar Rao), Bittu (Aparshakti Khurana), Jana (Abhishek Banerjee), take it against themselves to rid their town of this menace once and for all. They are supported in this journey by a motley team comprising a bookseller, Vijay Raaz, Pankaj Tripathi, an author who wrote the history of the city, and shraddha Kapoor, the girl Vicky likes. How they fight the spirit and get rid of it forms the crux of the movie.
6.Ek Thi Daayan
Director: Kannan Iyer
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin,Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma
The movie is based on Mukul Sharma’s story Mobius Trips. Emraan Hashmi plays Bobo, the best magician, who keeps having dreams about meeting a witch. It seems that his dad had married a witch who has come to haunt him again after 20 years. The witch needs a human sacrifice and makes his adopted son Zubin (Bhavesh Balchandani) as a victim. Bobo, it transpires, is a spiritual entity himself, and fights the witch to save the baby. Only a pure soul can kill the witch by cutting off its plaits and Bobo makes sure Zubin is successful in making so. However, as she is falling, the witch swears Bobo that she will be back. The film directed to build an atmosphere of spiritual horror despite its convoluted plot. Some scenes did give you real chills. The acting of the entire cast was appreciated and Konkona Sen Sharma was singled out for her performance as the real daayan.
5.Ragini MMS
Director: Pawan Kripalani
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Kainaz Motivala
It’s a found-footage horror movie that combines the story of a real scandal with strands from Stephen King’s novel Gerald’s Game. Uday (Rajkummar Rao), wants to make a sex video with Kainaz Motivala without her information. He has set up secret cameras and takes the benefit of innocent girls. He brings Ragini (Kainaz Motivala) to his house located in a secluded place, handcuffs herself to the area, and starts going out. However, he’s killed by a malevolent ghost, who also hits a couple of his friends. Ragini, who is connected to the bed, somehow violates free but the spirit haunts her as well. She passes out and later is shown getting treated for mental diseases. if we are talking about the list of the Best Bollywood horror movie. Then it comes in the 5th number.
4.Darna mana hai
Director: Prawaal Raman
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Nana Patekar, Shilpa Shetty, Sohail Khan, Antara Mali, Boman Irani, Sanjay Kapoor,
It was an episodic horror movie having supreme narratives woven into one. It was inspired by the Hollywood film Campfire Tales (1997). Six friends regale each other with supernatural horror tales after they have to find shelter in an abandoned house in a forest after their car breaks down. The stories were macabre and splattered with dark humour — a fashion photographer (Saif Ali Khan) is imprisoned in a hotel owned by a paranoid anti-smoker (Boman Irani). A housewife (Shilpa Shetty) gets haunted by red apples. A rich guy (Vivek Oberoi) giving a lift to a man (Nana Patekar) who may be a ghost — etc. The participants keep dwindling as a serial killer is stalking them one by one. The seventh story — one which held the others together was probably the weakest, but overall the film was good clean fun.
3.Tumbbad
Director: Rahi Anil Barve
Cast: Sohum Shah, Mohammad Samad, Deepak Damle, Jyoti Malshe, Anita Date,
It’s honesty tale peppered with stylized horror. tumbbad draws upon our traditions, mythology, as also morality tales to weave together a story revolving around greed and how like a curse it gets passed from generation to generation and corrupts everyone it touches. The opening ten minutes are sure to spook you. A woman more dead than alive, who looks like a zombie, is bound up in a remote house in a remote village in Maharashtra. The time is the early 1900s. The woman, who’s forever sleeping, has to be fed regularly…or else. Feeding her one night when his mother has taken his harmed brother to the doctor becomes a rite of the way for a young boy. They leave the place after the brother dies but the youth takes a promise to go hunt for ancestral find hidden inside the well and he does so when he grows up. The treasure is secured by the firstborn son of the earth goddess and he’s not easily induced to part with it. The young man flirts with death on each journey inside the ancestral well and for years emerges victorious. Tragedy strikes when later his teenage son becomes too close. The cocky youngster wants all the gold found at one go, forgetting that he’s trying to outwit a mad god.
2.Raat
Director- Ram Gopal Verma
Cast-Revathi, Chinna, om puri, Akash Khurana
Yet another horror movie directed by ram Gopal Verma, raat was a masterpiece movie that combined many genres and produced a final product, which was nothing short of extraordinary.
The movie follows the life of the central Sharma family, who have entered a new home which happens to be haunted. They ignore the symptoms and then, their daughter, played extremely well by Revathi, becomes possessed.reas of the story revolves around how the family is going to save their daughter.
1.Raaz
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Cast: Bipasha Basu and Dino Morea
The movie is adapted from the Hollywood hit What Lies Beneath. Aditya (Dino Morea) Sanjana and (Bipasha Basu) are a young couple having problems in their marriage. They decide to live together in a home in Ooty to sort out the differences. Sanjana keeps having one divine encounter after another. She keeps listening to a girl’s voice and later sees the spirit as well. Upon the guidance of professor Agni Swaroop (Ashutosh Rana), she talks to the spirit and finds out that it belongs to a young girl Malini (Malini Sharma) who was killed in the home. The further investigation makes her realize that Malini was having an affair with Aditya and committed suicide when he wasn’t interested in taking the relationship further. The professor notifies them that they have to burn the dead girl’s body to exorcise her spirit. Otherwise, she will kill Aditya in all probability.and finally, this film comes to 1st number our list of the Best Bollywood horror movie.
