From the makers of Insidious, Get Out and Udta Punjab - Ghoul is a chilling series about a prisoner who arrives at a remote military interrogation centre and turns the tables on his interrogators, exposing their most shameful secrets. You can fight the demons of this world but what about the ones that aren't?
Based on Arabic folklore, Ghoul is set at a covert detention center at which military officials question and often torture suspected terrorists. Nida Rahim, a newly minted interrogator who turned in her own father as an anti-government activist, arrives at the centre to discover that some of these terrorists are not of this world, and she must fight for not just the truth behind the military's hyper nationalist goals, but for her survival in the face of demons, both human and not.
Ghoul, the Netflix original horror miniseries is written and directed by Patrick Graham and co-produced by American production house Blumhouse Productions and Phantom Films, India along with Ivanhoe Pictures. We met up with the director and Vikramaditya Motwane the co-producer. They told us how Ghoul was originally intended to be a horror film but later Netflix stepped in and they suggested that it should be made into a series to which the makers agreed immediately because Patrick and Vikram felt a longer format would do more justice to the story. Vikram even spoke about why horror films in India are lagging behind compared to global cinema. They also talked about the challenges they face as directors while making something in the horror or thriller space.
So Ghoul, now a three-part horror series will drop on Netflix on 24 August at 12.30 pm (IST). Each episode is about 40 minutes long. The three episodes make for a total runtime of 2 hours and 16 mins.
Edit: Veeru Krishan Mohan