‘The Final of Us’, ‘Logout’ and ‘Khauf’ ship chills and thrills

Pedro Pascal in The Final of Us
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Three thrillers, three sorts of concern — from post-apocalyptic grief to digital dread and real-world horror, this week’s picks remind us that escape isn’t all the time comforting. Generally, it’s confronting. Whether or not it’s the contaminated, the haunted, or the hyper-online — every story hits a nerve, lingers, and leaves you modified.

Apocalypse voyeurism

Escape used to imply fantasy — superpowers, tune and dance, comfortable endings, the works. Now it’s live-streaming the zombie apocalypse and pondering, thank God it’s not right here but. Let’s simply hope the finale drops earlier than the zombies drop by. I’m speaking about The Final of Us — so bleak, it makes Mumbai visitors and low battery really feel like blessings. No clickers, no bloaters, no fireflies — simply good previous mosquitoes, hire and GST. The present’s first season blew up, due to the eponymous recreation’s cult following, and followers embraced Pedro Pascal’s brooding take — incomes him full Zaddy standing. The present is understood for brutal realism, the place each character arc feels prefer it’s most likely going to be lower brief to a cameo. And this week, it topped its personal physique rely with an enormous dying, and we would not recover from it. Episode 2 of the present’s second season, directed by Mark Mylod, (who additionally directed that lengthy take large dying episode in Succession), dropped with a 9.5 on IMDb.

The massive second lands like a sledge hammer to the face. You brace your self however it’s nonetheless going to smash. Sport followers knew this was coming, and, to their credit score, most saved it to themselves. However a few of you simply needed to tweet. You don’t should mourn with memes, maintain it to your self. Nonetheless, this wasn’t only a shock worth dying. It’s a pivot. A ‘nothing would be the similar’ second that opens up the present to the themes recreation followers are conversant in. So for those who haven’t began The Final of Us Season 2, get out of your bunker, take an opportunity, on JioStar.

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Babil Khan in Logout
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A largely, one-actor movie, with out clichés, is not any small feat. However Logout pulls it off. Babil Khan brings flashes of the legendary Irrfan, grounding a social-media thriller with actual emotion. Influencers in films are often narcissistic dopamine addicts, however right here, he’s simply human. Obsessed, however grounded; good, but flawed. Shaded with the darkish and the sunshine and the greys, minus the cliches we discover on this area. TVF’s Biswapati Sarkar and director Amit Golani ship a lean, no-fat thriller that’s good, tense, and surprisingly tight.

Now streaming on Zee5.

Concern issue

A nonetheless from Smita Singh’s Khauf
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Smita Singh’s Khauf is horror rooted in actuality — a haunted hostel in post-Nirbhaya Delhi, echoing trauma and reality. Set off warning: it offers with sexual assault and its lasting shadow. This horror doesn’t cover beneath the mattress. It holds up a mirror — disturbing, uncooked, and onerous to shake off. It’s not a feel-good watch, however an important one. The final present you watch to flee. Now streaming on Prime Video.

Alert: Rajkumar Santoshi’s Andaz Apna Apna starring Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor and Paresh Rawal amongst others, re-releases within the cinemas on Friday. Do catch the unique chat on the comedy basic with movie critic Raja Sen solely on FOMO Repair on-line.

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