Bhoothakaalam

The story, in pencil

A house that has stopped breathing. A mother and son pass each other in the half-light, carrying a grief neither will name, until the shadows start to answer back.

Bhoothakaalam is a 2022 Malayalam-language film directed by Rahul Sadasivan. Starring Revathi, Saiju Kurup and Valsala Menon. Music by Gopi Sundar. In a dim, silent house, Asha and her unemployed son Vinu share the same roof and the same unspoken grief, each slowly unravelling in their own way. As unseen presences stir in the shadows, it becomes unclear whether the haunting lies in the walls or in the wounded minds that live within them. Slow, suffocating and quietly devastating, it is a horror film where the past never really leaves.

— an illustration from the synopsis, not official artwork