Murmur Movie Review: Camera-perspective chiller struggles to raise goosebumps
Murmur Movie Review: Critics Rating: 2.5 stars, click to give your rating/review,A technically competent debut that shows potential but never quite captures the scream it’s reaching
Critic's Rating: 2.5/5
Murmur Movie Synopsis: Four YouTubers document their investigation of supernatural legends in a remote village, only to encounter increasingly disturbing phenomena that blur the line between folklore and terrifying reality.
Murmur Movie Review: Watching Murmur feels like sitting through someone’s endless vacation footage – if their holiday destination happened to be a cursed forest with an invisible ghoul. This pioneering attempt at horror told entirely through character-operated cameras deserves recognition for its ambition, but delivers more monotony than menace.
The premise follows four content-hungry YouTubers Melvin (Devraj), Rishi (Richie Kapoor), Ankitha (Suganya) and Jenifer (Aria) who, accompanied by local guide Kaantha (Yuvikha), venture into the woods to investigate legends of “Saptha Kannigal” (7 virgins) and an old vengeful spirit named Mangai.
What could be spine-tingling quickly becomes spine-numbing. Director Hemnath Narayanan creates an immersive environment through Jason Williams’ dark forest visuals captured without artificial lighting and Kewyn Frederick’s audio engineering that amplifies nature’s unsettling whispers. Their dabbling with a spirit-summoning planchette board—a horror trope as old as the genre itself—sets off the inevitable supernatural domino effect, yet by the time our explorers are dragged away one by one by the faceless entity, viewer investment has long since waned.
Richie’s North Indian character with his butchered Tamil provides the film’s few genuine laughs, while the sexual tension within the group offers more intrigue than anything supernatural. A technically competent debut that shows potential but never quite captures the scream it’s reaching for.
Written By: Abhinav Subramanian
Murmur Movie Review: Watching Murmur feels like sitting through someone’s endless vacation footage – if their holiday destination happened to be a cursed forest with an invisible ghoul. This pioneering attempt at horror told entirely through character-operated cameras deserves recognition for its ambition, but delivers more monotony than menace.
The premise follows four content-hungry YouTubers Melvin (Devraj), Rishi (Richie Kapoor), Ankitha (Suganya) and Jenifer (Aria) who, accompanied by local guide Kaantha (Yuvikha), venture into the woods to investigate legends of “Saptha Kannigal” (7 virgins) and an old vengeful spirit named Mangai.
What could be spine-tingling quickly becomes spine-numbing. Director Hemnath Narayanan creates an immersive environment through Jason Williams’ dark forest visuals captured without artificial lighting and Kewyn Frederick’s audio engineering that amplifies nature’s unsettling whispers. Their dabbling with a spirit-summoning planchette board—a horror trope as old as the genre itself—sets off the inevitable supernatural domino effect, yet by the time our explorers are dragged away one by one by the faceless entity, viewer investment has long since waned.
Richie’s North Indian character with his butchered Tamil provides the film’s few genuine laughs, while the sexual tension within the group offers more intrigue than anything supernatural. A technically competent debut that shows potential but never quite captures the scream it’s reaching for.
Written By: Abhinav Subramanian
