Mercury

The movie is a mess, yet once the thriller plot kicks in, you do start to absorb it as a "silent" film, tuning into the visual atmosphere of stalker fear and rusty chemical entropy.

Mercury may be remembered as the first silent thriller in Indian cinema, but it's far from the heart-stopper we're looking for.

A technical marvel, one of the best shot Tamil films in recent memory, with a surprisingly adept sound design that compensates for the lack of speech in creative ways

In Mercury, the lack of speech functions purely on the level of a gimmick. Fortunately, the director has enough tricks up his sleeve to make the scary portions work.

It's a straight-up horror film and the director should have taken more care towards delivering the chills rather than a half-baked save-the-planet kind of message.

As thrillers go, this is one of the better ones that we have seen this year.

Contains several genuinely suspenseful sequences reminiscent of Fede Alvarez's acclaimed 2016 Don't Breathe and of '70s gialli in general.