The story revolves around Kaira and her friends Ritika "Ritu", Aruna, and Kavya, who discover a mysterious book called Halloween Stories during their Halloween party at Kiara's house. The book includes a warning to read all the chapters without stopping, and they embark on a journey into its ghostly tales. As they delve deeper, they find themselves encountering the characters from the stories in real life. The movie explores the secrets of the book and the friends' experiences in this extraordinary situation. The stories which read further:
Chapter-1
Hiccups
A journalist called Vasanthi, who is looking for her new single portion for rent. After a failed deal with the broker at midnight, she finds out a portion and joins immediately. Before entering into the portion, the landlady asks a weird question: Does she get hiccups? Vasanthi casually says no, later sometime she weirdly starts getting hiccups, which eventually turns into paranormal activities around her, leading her to death in front of the landlady she puts again to-let board to the house.
Chapter-2
Soul Trapper
A girl called Malavika just had a successful traditional date. While coming home, she accidentally kills an old man, and his grandson, terrified she rushes her home. Then she finds out their souls are following her, and finally, they get her soul trapped in the home.
Chapter-3
Uninvited Guest
Janaki "Jano" is overjoyed because her love proposal was accepted by her friend. Then, suddenly, she felt the presence of paranormal activities around her. A video came to her phone that a woman asked for help to save her along with her boyfriend, who was in a haunted house. She tries to share the message with her boyfriend, but she realizes that she is watching by someone through her phone. Then suddenly, a mysterious ghost kills her.
Chapter-4
Athma
Akash, a paranormal scintist and his girlfriend Meera, visited a haunted bungalow, where he tells the story of the bungalow. In 1961, a Zamindar appoints 4 Bodyguards to his daughter, who was very beautiful in the town, but one day, when the Zamindar out of town the Bodyguards who brutally raped and kills her when they are about to manage it like a suicide they were caught by the Zamindar. Then, the Zamindar severe their heads and left the town. From that day onwards, there is a belief going on that the girl and the Bodyguard 's ghosts are roaming around the bungalow. Akash, who is excited to prove the ghosts are their in the bungalow, Meera, who doesn't believe in the ghosts, accepts to come along with him to prove their are no ghosts. After entering into the Bungalow, they feel strange incidents, and finally, the ghosts of the Bodyguard appear and kill Meera in front of Akash.
Some days later, the depressed Akash, with the force of his mother, talks with Vasanthi and Malavika in a traditional date for an arranged marriage. Then, it is revealed that Meera's ghost, who is always around him, became possessive and killed those girls. Later, when Akash accepted the proposal of Jano, Meera kills Jano, too.
present
Then the book reveals in the ending part that one of those 4 girls who is a bride for Akash, which is going to be killed by her. Then all feels tense, but Kaira suddenly reveals that it is a prank video and announces the party has ended.
The next morning, Kaira realized that her friends had been killed in an accident before coming to her house. Actually, she was with their ghosts through the whole night, which makes her stunned. Some days later, Kaira gets a match through her parents their she recognized Akash as the groom tells his profession. The film ends with surprised Akash, how do you know? [citation needed]
The production on the film developed under the title of October 31st Ladies Night in 2021.[3][4][5] In 2023, it was acquired by Jio Studios and was retitled Boo. The tagline of the film is "The next time you get a hiccup, don’t look for water, look around, it could be a ghost."[6] The film was produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Ramanjaneyulu Javvaji, and M. Raja Shekhar Reddy under the banners of Sarvanth Ram Creations and Shri Shirdi Sai Movies, while it was co-produced by Anil Jain and Rakesh Jain.[citation needed] The cinematography was done by Sandeep K. Vijay, and Anthony handled the editing.[7] It has action sequences choreographed by Stunt Silva. The film was shot during the second wave of COVID-19.[8][9]
The film's music was composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar,[10] while the background score was by Madhu R. This film is the eleventh collaboration between the music composer G. V. Prakash Kumar and the filmmaker A. L. Vijay.
The film was released on JioCinema on 27 May 2023, with free streaming and a dubbed version in Hindi.[11][12]
Reception
Navein Darshan of Cinema Express gave it 1 out of 5 stars and wrote, "Though the film has a couple of capable performers, the film refuses to rise above mediocrity thanks to its lackadaisical writing and amateur execution."[13]
Paul Nicodemus of The Times of India gave it 2 out of 5 stars and wrote, "If you’re looking for a good scare, it is not the film for you. But if you’re in the mood for a spooky movie to watch with friends, go for it."[14]
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