Many years ago, young Sundari found out she has to sleep with 13 men
and kill them to achieve eternal youth. However, her evildongs were cut
short by guru Jeet Baba, and nails were hammered into her head and she was
buried alive, so she can never kill again. Now though, during excavations,
Sundari's coffin is found, and inside her still living but pretty
decomposed body. The nails are removed at a local hospital, and from here
on, she's not only up to her old tricks - seducing and killing men -, but
also bumps off those who tried to kill her all these years ago.
Ultimately, the head archeologist of the excavation, Umesh, who almost
fell victim to Sundari when she posed as his girlfriend Seema, makes up a
plan to get rid of Sundari again, helped once more by Jeet Baba. Ultimately,
Sundari is lured back to the cave she came from, bound once again to her
coffin, and in the finale, the whole cave collapses, with Umesh and Seema
only barely being able to save themselves. But the ending suggests that
Sundari is still up to no good ... Indian trash horror at its
finest: A story that would do any Eurohorror flick from the 1970's proud,
countless opportunities to show cleavage and hint at sexual situations
(which is as far as Indian movies are allowed to go in terms of sex), a
decomposed monster that's able to take on the form of a beautiful woman,
and a bit of gore here and there. And then there are these song-and-dance
numbers common in Indian cinema that in the case of Khandala House
almost invariably announce another murder ... Now all of this does of
course not make a great movie, and it's true, Khandala House is
pretty much a cheap horror flick that's trashy as can be and more
reminiscent of shockers of past decades than any recent films - but trash
fans like myself will love it nevertheless not despite but for its
shortcomings.
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