"Monkey Man" in certain ways wants to be the second coming of "John Wick" but from an Indian point of view. While what star/director Dev Patel does is admirable and his heart is fully in it, the movie doesn't truly hit its stride until the last 1/4 of the film.

"Antlers" works on certain assumptions and formulas but creates an interesting essence of character build while not delivering completely. While the progression is simple in terms of a genre tale of a mythic creature wreaking havoc, it is the human story that is the most complex.

With "Kandisha" it is a mix of many different elements both with textures of Islam but also mythology. In a modern context it is intriguing because this mythology in general talks about a female almost centaur coming to take the lives of the men because of their transgressions.

The perspective of "The 8th Night" uses the element of the "seeing eye" as an ancient curse but one where two sides of the same coin were separated by thousands of miles and millennia to prevent them from coming together again.