‘Cold Case’ movie review: Underwhelming horror-thriller that squanders a promising premise

Tanu Balak’s directorial debut suffers from a weak script and dialogues, that Prithviraj cannot ultimately save

One of the popular internet memes of our times is the ‘expectations vs reality’ meme, pointing at how the reality of some things fall way behind our expectations. The makers of Cold Case probably expected a novel horror experience for the audience when they built some of these scary sequences around a refrigerator, but might not have imagined how it could turn out unintentionally funny in some key sequences. Not to forget that awkward literal connection that the refrigerator has to the movie’s title. . But the horror elements are just one part of the movie, which is the debut directorial of cinematographer Tanu Balak. It attempts to weave together an investigation which runs on two parallel tracks; one which follows the traditional police method of following the forensic clues and circumstantial evidences, while the other follows the clues gleaned from paranormal activities.