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THE KILLING WOODS
By Mohit Goswami

GENRE: Mystery, Horror
LOGLINE:

Radhika is a trekker who has gained popularity on social media for taking small groups to various unseen places on one such solo trip in the dense forest, she comes across a strange drifter named Mannuwith mysterious past and from there on begins a dark and chilling fable.

SYNOPSIS:

Radhika and Zoya, two young hiker’s vacation turns sour when an accident leaves them marooned in a remote Maharashtra’s hilly rural area that holds an ominous secret and a hideous killer. While on a hiking trip through rural countryside of Maharashtra, the professional trekker Radhika and her sculptor friend Zoya meet a stranger by the name Mannu after their car breaks down on their way to their trekking point by some apparent yet delusional supernatural event. They follow a track through the woods and find a hidden but divested village with no one living around as they try to find a police station. At the same time, on a different place but in the same vicinity, a group of two boys and two girls are camping in the hills near that creepy village when they discover the body of a young woman partially buried and naked in the dense woods in the wilderness. Radhika and Zoya are caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the murderer let loose in the woods as they try to look for their safety.

The two-young women Radhika and Zoya are unable to communicate much with Mannu as he speaks very seldom in gibberish and at times in Haryanvi slangs. As Radhika and Zoya elect to take a shortcut to the nearest village to fetch help but the route involves having to climb down a high cliff. During their decent down, Mannu’s rope apparently breaks, seemingly causing him to fall to his death. Zoya is pelted with falling debris as she tumultuously reaches the bottom where upon she discovers Mannu’s rope which is cut but apparently there is no sign of Mannu’s body. Radhika at the same time sees a figure move away from the top of the cliff, and it becomes clear that some sinister event have encircled them. The group of hikers on the other side were happily camping until they find the dead body and now the mysterious figure in the woods starts hunting them. Radhika and Zoya are trapped and run for their life. As the night falls the two women get separated in the darkness and Zoya is eventually killed by Mannu, while Radhika has no other option but to run for help. Radhika comes face to face with the supernatural being Kavita who had died an unnatural death. Riya from the other group of hikers is the only one alive who stumbles upon Radhika and there on both Radhika and Riya are plunged into a hellish nightmare of torture by the sadistic psychopath Mannu.

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