this would have been a terrific film had mike flanagan directed it instead of certified bag fumbler™️ osgood perkins.

the bones of something interesting are there in the form of stephen king's story and the general production values are quite solid but the overly humorous tone osgood perkins takes with the direction just becomes cloyingly noxious after a while.

if you want to make a horror movie about generational trauma and absent fathers, make a horror movie about generational trauma…

Cheap, smug, and in incredibly poor taste, everyone involved with The Sabarmati Report should be ashamed of themselves.

If you're going to make a film about a tragedy that haunts different sections of the country for different reasons to this day, the least you could do is conduct proper research and take a tone that's respectful of the incident.

Instead, the filmmakers here are more than content (even self-congratulatory about it all), to use the Godhra incident as exploitative cannon…