Movie

Tumbbad

2018 · 113 min

A damp, oppressive descent into avarice, drenched in rain and dread, that lingers like a curse long after it ends.

Tagline: A tale of greed beyond fear.
Overview: India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, bleak and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Greed, obsession, family, corruption
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: greed
obsession
family
corruption
fate
Places: small town
single country house
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild