Hisss

Hisss
Director: Jennifer Lynch
99 minutes
2.40:1



The point of a remake is to make it a fresh positive experience for contemporary audience. Unfortunately Hisss fails at that.

There is an Indian myth that whoever could possess the energy of Naagin, the snake goddess, he will live on forever. Believing this myth, a group of men in modern day India captures her mate in order to force the goddess' hand. As the goddess kills them one by one, a detective must wrestle with his disbelief of the myth and solve the serial murder case.

If the above paragraph makes the movie seems interesting, well then obviously the opportunity to make an entertaining remake was lost somewhere. To be fair, there are no English version of the move prior to Hisss; in fact, even the current one is a mix of Hindi and English. There were actually two Hindi versions prior to this. Within the Bollywood movie musical convention, the 1986 version was far more entertaining than this one!

The only admirable work to be seen here is the cinematography by Madhu Ambat.

Director and screenwriter Jennifer Lynch has disowned the film because she was booted out of the post-production stage by the producers. So much can make a movie better in editing, in music score and CGI effects but it is clear that this one received a sloppy post-pro work. Producers Govind Menon and Vikram Singh must shoulder the blame for letting this mess be released theatrically.