Chhorii (2021)

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Chhorii is an Indian supernatural horror movie that came out in 2021. A remake of 2017's Lapachhapi. 

How I watched: Amazon Prime

This movie is about Sakshi and her husband Hermant that have a rude awakening when her husband is beat up in their own house by goons stemming from an unresolved debt. An associate of his just as quickly has a solution for them. They accept a proposal to take temporary refuge in a remote village until Hermant can get his shit together. Oh and did I mention that Sakshi is like EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT?! They basically have no choice so they take off as the goons promised that they will come back in 24 hours to slaughter the entire family. Well, they didn't necessary say THAT verbatim but they totes implied it.

In order to reach the house, they have to go from their cushy bustling city life to a tiny ancient dwelling in the middle of bumfuck nowhere surrounded by super tall crops. A woman that goes by Bhanno Devi is an elderly mother that takes care of Sakshi while Hermant fucks off for most of the movie.

The women bond and stuff but just as quickly as things are going smoothly, Sakshi is quickly sensing some evilness around here. Some supernatural shit is a-brewing and she is dead center in the middle of it. She sees dead children and a woman in red taunting her mental state and she's like WHAT THE FUCK. Oh...she's gonna know the fuck....

Mini spoiler alert!

For real though, the important thing to note is that this movie acts more of a social commentary on Indian traditions. It's insanely scary but that's obviously the point of this movie: to show you the terrors of what family's do all in the name of superstition and their quest to have the treasured birth of a boy and on the other side of the coin, disposing of a girl baby. The added fluff of the supernatural was the symbolic connection that the real evil all along is us humans. Pretty depressing ain't it? The movie does a good job to illustrate that for the most part. 

I was almost ready to give this a lukewarm rating but it was the ending was when it really dawned on me the true essence of this film, not just to get my cheap spooks on. Just before the end credits you get the disclaimer:

"Female infanticide and female foeticide are amongst the most heinous crimes that go largely unreported in India.

In the time that it took for you to watch this film, 113 female foetuses and babies would have been killed in India. Many in the name of various superstitions.

Crimes against women are on the rise across the world."

Part of the reason why I created this blog was to push myself to explore more international movies and India was definitely the dark horse to really capture my interest when it comes to horror. I've seen a few Indian movies by now but this one is definitely in my top 15 modern horror movies for sure. Consider my interest piqued. My eyes usually go to Japanese horror since it's more widely known but Indian horror is so little talked about which is such a shame. I honestly hope my blog can interest at least one person to check out something they haven't before from this country. Tumbbad is an unprecedented bad ass MUST SEE horror flick, Bhoot got your heart pumping, and Pihu opened your cold dead heart. I have found a few more Indian horrors in my queue to watch so I honestly can't wait to share some more with you!

If this movie has a message, what would it be? 

Any disclaimers? Dead babies. It's sad. No vulgar cursing, no nudity, no excessive violence.

Age demographics? Mature adults I'd say. 

So with that being said, what is my verdict?


There's continuity errors and some things irked me about this film but the overall sentiment tugs at my heartstrings the most 


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