The film creeps into your bones and gives you a little shiver of discomfort at how very unknowable the world is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2024

The monsters portrayed may fall short of the imagined horrors, but as the credits roll a profound realisation dawns — the real monsters are in the hearts of men.

| Dec 11, 2023

It’s beautifully crafted and creepy as hell.

| Oct 31, 2022

If Clive Barker had made There Will Be Blood, it might have gone something like this Hindi-language horror epic.

| Sep 10, 2021

... genre-defying folksy fantasy flick ...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 11, 2021

An interesting movie and I do think it's worthy of your time but it's a long, long, movie about a moral that we all know we all know.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 21, 2020

An impressive Indian Gothic horror fable about greed...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 23, 2020

What the film forsakes in the acting department (with irregular performances), it more than compensates for with visual richness, artistry, imagination and genre-loyalty.

| Jul 29, 2019

Tumbbad offers a lot more than frights and fables! It's enriched with double edged family drama that prolongs the plot, but augments the horror with indispensable suspense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

Tumbbad is a spectacle of epic horror, like a great, terrifying, and sociopolitical piece of classic literature brought to life.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 29, 2019

The development is so basic at a conceptual level that one quickly loses interest. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 14, 2019

A spine-chilling horror film that does not rely on jump-scares.

| Jan 17, 2019

beautifully shot fairytale gothic... allegorises the corrupting rapacity of colonialism in Imperial India, & looks forward to an independent India who may - or may not - be able to free herself once & for all from the hidden complicities of history.

| Nov 25, 2018

With a compelling story of greed that spans more than 30 years, a memorable monster and some truly beautiful cinematography, Tumbbad is not to be missed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2018

This is Indian Folk Horror at its finest.

| Oct 30, 2018

The story is far more interesting in concept than execution; you can understand why this has been such a long gestating passion project for the director, it's just hard to fathom how the final product feels so formulaic.

| Oct 16, 2018

For film lovers, the genre-bending is gratifying. It has been a while since a horror film spoke so eloquently about something as primal as greed and remained true to its Indian (Marathi) setting.

| Oct 13, 2018

The true star here is Barve, who takes what could have been a regular horror film and elevates it to another level.

| Oct 12, 2018

Debutant director Rahi Anil Barve has given Indian horror a new direction with Tumbbad.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2018

The trick maybe is to digest Tumbbad as a dark bedtime story narrated by an orthodox Brahmin father to his kids every night. The morality and broadness of this universe is his, but the wild texture and density of details aren't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2018