The trailer of Red Chillies Entertainment’s next Netflix series Betaal is out, and it is so terrifying that we guarantee it’ll chill you to the bone.
The premise of the horror thriller is interesting. An ancient curse gets triggered when development work and road-building is undertaken in a remote tribal village. The tribals warn the police officials called in to subdue them that disturbing the fragile peace of the Betaal mountain, through which a road is to be built, will unleash the entire population’s downward spiral into hell.
Of course they don’t pay heed, and go ahead with opening up a tunnel in the mountain. And an ancient, two-centuries-old British-era army of zombies is awakened from the dead, unleashing the promised hell in the village.
Vineet Kumar and Aahana Kumra play police officers who are caught up in the zombie storm. Several scenes in the trailer show the duo as zombies themselves — we don’t know whether it is in imagined sequences or whether they ultimately become one of the undead. Jitendra Joshi, Siddharth Menon, Manjiri Pupala and Suchitra Pillai also play crucial roles in the series.
The series is directed by Patrick Graham, who had earlier directed Ghoul for Netflix, and co-directed by Nikhil Mahajan. It is produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, in association with Blumhouse, the definitive content creators of horror flicks.
The official synopsis of Betaal, as shared by the makers, reads, “A remote village becomes the theatre of a breathless battle when a two-century-old Betaal, a British Indian Army officer, and his battalion of zombie redcoats are unleashed. With Indian police pitted against the undead army, hapless villagers are trapped in a horrific, edge-of-your-seat conflict.”
Betaal premieres on Netflix on 24th May.
Have a look at the trailer below –
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