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Pretty much out of nowhere, Anita (Archana Puran Singh) and her friends
start having nightmares in which they are chased by a malformed man
wearing razorblade-gloves, and when they wake up, they have scratchmarks.
It all eventually culminates with Anita's friend Seema being horribly cut
up and killed while in her sleep, and her boyfriend Param, who has been in
the room with her, is arrested as the only logical suspect. Only Anita,
who has more and more of these horrible nightmares, knows it was something
else - and this something else kills Param in his prison cell using
snakes, and nobody listened to Anita's premonitions. Anita's boyfriend
Prakash finds a razorblade glove amidst Anita's father's stuff, and now
daddy admits the creature in Anita's dreams and also the owner of the
glove is one Shakaal, a black mgician who has killed Anita's little sister
7 years ago, and in return Anita's father captured him and buried him
alive - but it seems Shakaal has escaped ... Shakaal has found a way out
of Anita's dreams and into the real world, and the first thing he does is
to possess Anita and turn her into a seductive killing machine, and soon
she kills a guy who repeatedly tried to rape her earlier on. Eventually,
Shakaal takes Anita to his realm to sacrifice her just like her sister all
these years ago, but Anita puts up a fight and manages to cut off his feet
using a guillotine - but that might slow Shakaal down a bit but doesn't
stop him. However, it buys Anita enough time for her family and Prakash to
arrive, and they ultimately manage to squash Shakaal using a spiked
ceiling. One of the lesser Ramsay-brothers shockers: The first
half of the film is little more than a carbon copy of Wes Craven's Nightmare
on Elm Street, with little original added apart from a few
song-and-dance routines, and when in the second half, Mahakaal actually
veers off the plotline of the American film, it becomes incredibly
muddled, fails to make proper sense, and when Shakaal actually does come
into the real world, that takes away from his menace and makes him little
more than your typical (supernatural) serialkiller, as opposed to Freddy
Krueger's very special brand of creepiness. All that said
though, Mahakaal is not a total failure as such, it's got its
delightfully trashy moments and quite an amount of gore, it's just that
the Ramsays have made better films.
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