Shock (2004 film)

Shock is a 2004 Tamil language supernatural thriller film directed and produced by Thiagarajan. The film features his son Prashanth in a leading role alongside Meena and Abbas, while Suhasini, Kalairani and Sarath Babu amongst others play supporting roles. The music is by Salim-Sulaiman. The film was a remake of Ram Gopal Varma's Hindi film, Bhoot (2003), and was released in 23 July 2004 to a positive response from critics.

Plot

The film revolves around Vasanth (Prashanth), a stock analyst, and his wife Malini (Meena). The two are in search for a flat in Chennai. Vassanth finds the perfect place on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building. However, the apartment has a horrifying past. The previous occupant of the flat, a young woman Manju who had killed her child and jumped from the balcony and died. Malini learns about this incident shortly after moving in and becomes oddly fixated with the story. Then, a series of inexplicable experiences drive Malini to near madness.

Exploitation film

An exploitation film is any film which tries to succeed financially by exploiting a current trend, a niche genre, or a lurid subject matter.

Subjects which these films exploit include, but are not limited to, sex, violence, and romance. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies." Even so, they sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as Night of the Living Dead (1968), set trends and become historically important.

History

Exploitation films may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. Such films were first seen in their modern form in the early 1920s, but they were popularized in the 60s and 70s with the general relaxing of censorship and cinematic taboos in the U.S. and Europe. The Motion Picture Association of America (and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America before it) cooperated with censorship boards and grassroots organizations in the hope of preserving the image of a "clean" Hollywood, but the distributors of exploitation film operated outside of this circuit and often welcomed controversy as a form of free promotion. Their producers used sensational elements to attract audiences lost to television. Since the 1990s, this genre has also received attention in academic circles, where it is sometimes called paracinema.

Shock

Shock may refer to:

Main uses

Social sciences

Medicine

In medicine, shock may refer to any of the following:

Physical sciences