Chilling and Unsettling Trailer for Shudder's Death Ritual Horror Film KRIYA
Shudder has released a trailer for its upcoming supernatural horror film Kriya, and it looks like it tells quite a disturbing story. That story involves a man going home with a strange woman, along with magic, death rituals, a waking nightmare, and an ancient curse.
The synopsis reads:
DJ Neel (Noble Luke) encounters the ravishing Sitara (Navjot Randhawa) while working a club set one night and is transfixed by her. They return to Sitara’s place where Neel is horrified to see the gagged and shackled body of her dying father – Sitara’s grieving family keeping vigil around it. Caught completely unawares, Neel’s compassion is nevertheless aroused and he stays on. In India, patriarchal custom dictates that only a son can perform a parent’s last rites, but no such person exists in Sitara’s family. So when her father actually dies during the course of the night, Sitara coerces Neel to officiate the rituals of death. Thrust into a world of magic and transgression, Neel finally attempts to flee his waking nightmare. But as dawn breaks, it becomes evident that Sitara’s family is afflicted by an ancient curse. One that Neel is now very much a part of.
Kriya comes from writer and director Sidharth Srinivasan, and is co-produced by Andy Starke (Possessor, In the Earth, Censor) and Pete Tombs (Free Fire). The haunting score was created by Jim Williams (Possessor, Titane, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, A Field in England).
Kriya is now streaming on Shudder.