VEERANA
(Deserted Place)
dir. Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay, 1988
India, 140 mins.
In Hindi with English subtitles.

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A “uniquely surreal possession movie” (Grady Hendrix, Film Comment) starring the model Jasmin in her only significant film role as a young woman possessed by a seductress demon who (in a typical Ramsay touch) is introduced and vanquished in the pre-credits sequence before returning to torment a new generation. Perhaps the pinnacle of the Ramsays’ art, Veerana features their groddiest monster makeup and most sinister servants, with setpieces drawing alternately from arcane religious superstition and meta-modern references to horror masters like Hitchcock (comically) and Hooper (plagiaristically).