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Kankal (1950)

Kankal poster
Original title
কঙ্কাল
Directed by
Naresh Mitra
Genre
horror film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 55m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man becomes haunted by a mysterious skeleton. The film follows his descent into psychological terror.

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What happens

Kankal (transl. The Skeleton) was a Bengali-language psychological horror film directed by Naresh Mitra and produced by Shishir Mallik. This film was released on 14 April 1950 under the banner of Madhuchakra Limited. Kankal was the first horror film released in the Bengali language. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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