{"id":2915,"date":"2018-10-11T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:23:11","slug":"daily-horror-film-fest-yakshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2018\/10\/11\/daily-horror-film-fest-yakshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Horror Film Fest: Yakshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day during October, the Department of Tangents presents a different short film for the Daily Horror Film Fest. It can be flat-out scary, funny horror, or just plain creepy. Today\u2019s entry is <em>Yakshi<\/em>, an Indian horror short written by Ashish Mohandas and directed by Vijendra Bhambhani, presented by VMB Films and Boathouse Media. <\/p>\n<p>This one checks off a lot of boxes for urbans myths \u2013 a lone wanderer on an unfamiliar road, not one but two hitchhikers, a superstitious driver, and an evil spirit loose in the woods. The spirit in this case is the Yakshi, a witch-like creature said to appear to travelers in southern India as a woman in white. Yakshi are vicious hunters, and may or may not be shape shifters. Depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n<p>The film is beautifully shot, and there&#8217;s a little bit of a Sam Raimi tribute fans should spot quite easily. And there\u2019s obviously a Yakshi in this story, but don\u2019t worry. She\u2019s trapped in a tree by a well-placed nail. She can be of harm to no one unless\u2026 whoops. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8phLqwdnrjU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day during October, the Department of Tangents presents a different short film for the Daily Horror Film Fest. It can be flat-out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1422,5],"tags":[1902,641,1901,1900],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","tag-ashish-mohandas","tag-daily-horror-film-fest","tag-vijendra-bhambhani","tag-yakshi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DHFF-Yakshi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-L1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}