Making a successful horror movie’s a tricky task. People who like horror films have seen so many of them that it requires something really extraordinary to scare them. And the people who detest horror films because it scares them, (and hence are the target audience) mostly stay away. It could be the good old sex-and-titillation scenes or a good dose of romance. For Raaz: The Mystery Continues, Mohit Suri, the director decides to wrap the horror story with a romance foil.

The story is about a frustrated ghost with a hint of social consciousness trying to teach its murderers a lesson. Kangana Ranaut is a model and she is in a love-hate relationship with Adhyayan Suman, who runs a TV show called “AndhVishwas” The ghost must have seen too many Hollywood films and it liberally uses all those tricks to scare Kangana. Serial kisser Emraan Hashmi is a painter who can see the future in his paintings. He keeps drawings Kangana’s pictures and sees her in trouble all the time (I wasn’t impressed with this observations powers though. In his pictures, Kangana is always fully dressed). The story is all about knowing why the ghost is interested in her and what does it want to do to Kangana.

For any horror movie to work, the entire story of why it happened must be really good and solid. For the audience to love and enjoy the movie they must be captivated enough to feel that such-and-such happened because of so-an-so reason.

Technically the movie is good with some good editing and excellent background music by Raju Singh. The sound effects are good and up to the mark. The cinematography, a very important aspect of any horror flick doesn’t raise above average. There has been efforts to use color filters in some sequences but somehow they don’t seem to accentuate the scene much.

Categories: Movie Review, Raaz 2
Tags: Emraan Hashmi, Imran Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Mohit Suri, Raju Singh