NEEDS PICS The Village - Episode 1
The Village
Language of Origin: தமிழ் (Tamil)
Episode 1 "Detour"
This first episode starts off with a bus filled with people whom are driving in the middle of the night. A cold rainy night that is when they come across a road blockage. A modest group of hunky men are unable to remove the big ass tree so they are forced to take a detour.
Unbeknownst to them is a group of creepily clothed men humming the bushes and watching them leave.
Among the passengers is a pregnant woman named Mala who tells her husband, Sethu, she totes does not have a good feeling about their reroute to this super creepy abandoned village. Like a good husband he invalidates her emotions like a movie trope. Her feelings ain't anything to joke about bro because what comes next he's gotta be begging her for forgiveness.
The new detour is by an old factory, according to the husband and the bus passes by a town sign that they are entering Kattiyal. Sounds ominous, bros. She sees the sign and begs him to turn around but of course he does more invalidation by saying it's just an abandoned village they are going through and to not being such a scaredy cat and they will all be fine.
Just as he says that an unknown individual dashes in front of the bus and gets hulk smashed which makes the bus do a screeching halt. Full stop, Sethu steps out to check on who the hell they just hit. The downed person looks so mutated and deformed. Another man steps out of the bus seeing the same thing and is like WTF!? Sethu gets some kind of flashback of a violent encounter which implies he knows who the mutated peep is.
Before they can further process what they saw, from the darkness shoots a metal spear which barely misses Sethu but his pal right behind him? Well...
Sethu turns around and sees these silhouettes of other other mutated people perching on the hill nearby. Everyone else on the bus is screeching to high heave....AND THEY FUCKING ATTACK THEM!!!!! More spears comes hurling at the bus and even vertically slices one of the women there. Gnarly!!!
Further slaughter and graphic violence of attack ensues . The bus gets bombarded with spears and all hell breaks lose. I can't even. A lot of people die like holy shit. Only Mala and Sethu are the last ones alive. Oops now it's just Mala.
This next scene is Professor X, excuse me I mean Prakash, whom looks like he is talking serious biz. He is a dude bound to a wheelchair as a man named Farhan is escorted in the room. He's looking like a bad ass mercenary or some shit. Oh wait! He actually is a mercenary! He takes offense to that. He prefers "clean up crew". Anyways, his task is to fly to Kattiyal along with a team of people to collect samples. His responsibility is to guard the people with those samples to ensure they make it back to him in one piece...well, you know what I mean. With this top secret mission confirms, he sends him packing with money and coordinates of what area he wants the sample to be taken from. Simple as that, right? Oh yeah and his associate, Jagan, will go with him. Jagan doesn't seem like a happy camper but he has no choice but to comply.
Jagan runs after Prakash, which isn't that hard because, wheelchair lol. He asks why TF he chose him to go on such short notice, Prakash heavily implies it is because not only does he know the area well but he also gave a not so thinly veiled threat with his family. Unfortunate but it be wot it beeee.
Prakash gives a devilish smile as he pushes the button to back into the elevator and says "Don't fuck it up."
Word.
Okay so now this next scene takes place in Navamalai at this food joint late at night where people are partying it up. A fluffy man in a hawaiian shirt (no, it's not Fluffy) walks around this food eatery chatting it up with everyone. His name is Karunagam (I def need to get used to spelling that just in case he becomes a recurring character) is talking to Shakthivel, but Sakthi for short are chatting about oracles and shit. Sakthi ain't about that life. Because, communism.
In another change of scenery is family on a road trip jamming out to 🎵Jingum-wa🎵 until they hit the dreaded traffic jam. No bueno. The husband, Gautham, steps out of his vehicle like a dumbass to see just how far the traffic goes. Spoiler alert: far.
There's actually been a flipped car which is blocking both ways. Well, fuck. He goes back in the car to relay this to his wife, Neha along with their little daughter, Maya, in the backseat with their dog.
Neha ain't happy and told Gautham a big fat: TOLD YOU SO! If only he had listened to his wife to leave earlier then they totally not be in this traffic ass mess. Alas, she found a new route rather than sit in traffic and die of carbon monoxide poisoning. What a genius! He goes over to kiss her but then the daughter is like OMG STAHP!
He wastes no further time and turns his car around to take this new route wifey has kindly found for them. Some time later, Neha seems to get a little conflicted. The further they are out, the more it looks a little not right but he assures her to just trust the GPS that she told him to use, afterall. It's quite a bumpy and unpaved road and it just looks creepier and creepier the most that darkness falls.
You guessed right, they have officially entered Kattiyal.
As they are driving in these dark and scary woods, one of the tires finally succumbs to the ragged road. When Gautham inspects further, it's actually both of his front tires that got jabbed with rusty nails. Using the spare tire is useless at this point. He looks around and it looks desolate as heck and what do ya know...no phone signal to call anyone for help. He makes the decision to go walk into town to ask for help while wifey and daughter hold down the fort. With the help of Hectic. Yeah...according to the english subtitles, their dog is named Hectic. Ok...
Confident he'll be okey dokey, he sets on.
In the same darkness of night a helicopter carrying Farhan the mercenary is crossing the Indian ocean as we speak. They have 🎵Memento Mori🎵 to pump them up! There is a team of 7 or 8 if my count is correct and then we have Jagan. A guy is about to barf but the woman mercenary tells him to toughen, up, buttercup. Oh and there's an indian lookin' Keemstar in this group. God save us.
They are all armed to the teeth with guns and all that jazz making their landing to Kattiyal fast approaching and they are ready as fuck.
So we are back at the outdoor food restaurant where Gautham reaches pleading for help. He goes up to fluffy's ground telling them they were on their way to Thoothukudi and had car trouble. Peter Pandiyan goes mini apeshit like "You kids and your phones! That's why you got lost you silly goose!" and hands him some alcohol, Gautham calls him out on his shit and be like "NOOO I AM A DOCTOR and I know what's in that flask. By that way, you're not one."
Shakthivel seems like the most level headed of the three and inquires on more information just to get a feel on his exact location since Gautham did say he walked for an hour and half to get there. He thinks long and hard and then pipes up that he remembers the sign that he crossed. Kattiyal.
Oof.
All the patrons stop dead ass in their tracks and collectively stare at him in horror that he dared mentioned that name. A bit goofy of an execution in my opinion but yeah. A man walks over to him and touches his shoulder and says with melancholy "You've made a grave mistake my bruddah."
Bewildered and perplexed at everyone's intense reaction he asks what the fuck do they mean by that?!
Peter proceeds to explain that it's literally been ages since anyone of anywhere have ventured to Kattiyal because it is said to actually be haunted as none seem to exit there alive.
Despite this revelation, Shakthivel says that he can be of assistance but in the morning. Other guy too since he is a mechanic and can even fix his tires as well. Gautham does not want to wait until morning because his entire family is there so he is hella frustrated that it's not right then and there. He snatches Peter's flasks and chuggs the hell out of it and runs off in the night. Everyone be shooketh!
So, how are the fam doing while Gautham was out and about?
The young girl who looks no older than 9 or 10 is just full of questions. She just so happens to be reading a Harry Potter book so they chat about that for a while but then Hectic starts barking as there is thunder heard in the distance. Thinking he needs to tinkle, Neha lets the dog out but upon exiting the car, she hears branches snapping and gets a little spooked.
That little fucker, Hectic, makes a mad dash out in the woods which ensues in Neha chasing after him in the creepy ass woods. Maya gets out of the car too which Neha yells at her to get the heck back inside the car but before she can say much chains appear out of nowhere and drag her further in the woods. Maya drops her book while she screams in horror and running after her mother.
Flashes of crazy imagery surface and that is the cliff hanger we are left with. Well, ok then.
Episode 2 is next.