Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Unsung Horrors Rule (708 watched on Letterboxd)

The Ramsay Brothers — there are seven, this is by director Tulsi and writer Shyam — made Indian’s first horror TV show, Zee Horror Show, as well as movies including Mahakaal, Bandh Darwaza and Veerana.

Hundreds of years ago, the procession of Raja Harimaan Singh is stranded near the Black Mountain, leaving him concerned that his daughter Princess Rupali has been taken by devil worshipper Samri. He arrives just in time to save her, as he starts to take her soul, turning her eyes white and then red. The Raja orders him to be beheaded, but before he dies, he says, “So long as my head is away from my body, every woman in your line shall die at childbirth; and when my head is rejoined to my body, I will arise and wipe out every living person in your dynasty.”

Thakur Ranvir Singh, the great-great-grandson of the Raja, knows of this curse, as his wife died giving birth to his daughter Suman, who he is angry with, as she dates a non-royal college boy, Sanjay. Her father reveals the curse to them yet they stay together.

They then take a vacation with Anand and his wife Sapna where they find a painting of the evil Samri. Behind this painting is the head of the Satanist, which is soon joined back to his body, bringing him back to murderous life.

Thakur comes to the rescue and he performs an aarti, a prayer with rhythmic waving of a lamp to create a spiritual connection between the worshiper and the divine, to Lord Shiva. Using a trishul, the trident of Shiva, they defeat the monster and burn him alive, which finally allows our hero and heroine to be married. Then again, Samri returned in the movie Samri 3D in 1985. This also stars Anirrudh Agarwal as the demon, a man who basically walked into the Ramsay’s office and they jumped up and down, as they had spent months trying to find the perfect monster.

The music in this was inspired by The Amityville Horror. It’s the same theme used on the Zee Horror Show.

You can watch this on YouTube.