India, March 3 -- What's worse than losing control over your own body? Realising that you're slowly losing your soul too. The most terrifying part starts when your voice doesn't sound like yours, your reflection feels unfamiliar, and your senses start betraying you. As horrifying as it sounds, it also became a point of fascination of Indian film industry. Indian Horror movies based on possession, where spirits slip into human vessels, became a popular sub-genre among fear enthusiasts.

From grand palace hauntings to remote village eeriness, possession horror continues to grip audiences. They effectively blur the line between spiritual and psychological, putting the audience in a dilemma of the seen and the unseen. It taps into cultural b...