Updated On: 02 November, 2019 07:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
Christophe Lenoir's slow-to-burn helming fails to drum up tension or make the incidents feel shocking in Hexing

Screengrab from the trailer of Hexing movie
A low-budget(and it shows) horror flick shot in the vicinity of Notre Dame(before it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt), this film written by Vikram Gupta and Vivek Singhania makes a stab at genre without laying out much of the formulaic tricks. So you won't find doors swinging shut, hear creaky, shrieky sounds or feel darkness suddenly descend – instead of jump scares you get a tweak into a past through an antique dealer's unique find. A piece of furniture, supposedly harkening back to an ancient Indian past, that happens to convey supernatural powers, aptly called the Yantra/Ouija board, is gifted to a young troubled woman named Hannah and subsequently, after a series of strange, uncalled-for incidents Hannah (Emma Eliza Regan) & her co-workers/friends Alice (Dominique Swain) and Joe (Adam Weafer), uncover a deadly curse from the past. The story travels from Paris to Ireland to Bombay but the spirit doesn't feel as inveigling.