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The Important Cinema Club

#312 - The Ramsay Horror Family

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the career of India's trendsetting horror filmmaking family, The Ramsays, with a focus on their films PURANA MANDIR, VEERANA and MAHAKAAL. Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Kluar, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to the important cinema club Shocktober.

0:12.3

Ooh!

0:14.2

Pugh!

0:15.7

It's a lot.

0:17.9

I'm the creature from the Black Lagoon.

0:20.7

That's what he says, right?

0:21.9

I am the Phantom of the Opera.

0:23.5

Yes.

0:24.8

So, as per usual, we're going through horror selections for this most spookiest of times.

0:33.6

And this week, we're talking about the Ramsey brothers, the ultimate horror filmmakers out of India.

0:40.8

When you say Bollywood Horror, you're talking about the Ramsey brothers.

0:44.9

And there's a few reasons for that. If you go through the history of Indian cinema, they have a very powerful golden period during the 40s, but they also had some very

0:56.7

heavy censorship. And because of that, that kind of kept horror out of the big screens in the

1:03.2

way that they took over in places like North America. So it actually took a while for some

1:08.8

filmmakers to finally take the chance and go, all right,

1:11.1

we're going all in on this horrific stuff.

1:14.6

And once they did, boy, howdy, did they figure out that audiences wanted it.

1:19.3

And the Ramsey brothers, as we'll talk about through this episode, they cranked out a lot

1:23.2

of movies in a surprisingly short period of time, only a decade.

1:27.0

That's because, you know, if the

1:28.2

box office is booming, you got to keep making those horror films. The Ramsey brothers were a family

1:32.5

of filmmakers. They worked under the company name Ramsey Films. The patriarch of the clan was

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