A weary paranormal investigator retreats into an isolated forest cottage, chasing a case he no longer believes in — while silently running from a fractured past.
Face it with the lights off.
Official trailer / 1:08
Malayalam with English subtitles
Something
answers back.
Deep in the forest, a paranormal investigator arrives at a cottage to close a case he has stopped believing in. The house is quiet. The woods are not. As night settles, sounds arrive from the wrong direction, time begins to fold back on itself, and a second version of the investigator starts to move through the trees.
Trapped in a loop he cannot explain, he is forced to confront a presence that feels deeply personal — one that feeds on guilt, isolation and emotional decay. Duplicem is a psychological horror film that uses the supernatural as a metaphor for depression: an inescapable loop in which the mind becomes both the prison and the predator.
“The supernatural is the metaphor. The loop is the illness.”
Theme — Duplicem / 2026
Four frames
from the dark.
Spoiler-light. Nothing is explained.
Selected.
Not finished.
Three official selections in its first year on the circuit, including the film's Asian premiere in Mumbai. More dates are announced as they are confirmed.
Screenings & updates- Dark Scream Film Festival Official Selection — Asian PremiereMumbai, India 2026
- Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival Official SelectionMelbourne, Australia 2026
- Short Way International Short Film Festival Horror Short Film FinalistInternational 2026
Made by
a close ensemble.
H2N Pictures in association with South Side Studios
Kochi / Mumbai / India
Cast
- Nezer Ahemed Joshua
- Paski Divya (Voice)
- Aleesha Joe Friend 1
- Rohit Richard Friend 2
- Ajith K Prakash Friend 3
- Abhishek Nair Friend 4
- Hannah Theresa Boney Daughter (Voice)
Story & direction
- Story, screenplay & direction
- Shijin Melvin Hutton
- Script & dialogue
- Shijin Melvin Hutton, Retheesh Raj
- Creative director
- Abhishek Nair
- Assistant directors
- Retheesh Raj, Nikhil Kakkochan, Marshal Jose
Production
- Producers
- Subin Hutton, Abhishek Nair, Shijin Melvin Hutton
- Line producers
- Nikhil Kakkochan, Anil Pallan
- Production designer
- Kripesh Ayyappankutty
- Art associate
- Jayakrishnan Kottakkal
- Art assistants
- Akshay Anand, Aneto Varghese
Image
- Director of photography
- Rajesh Anjumoorthy
- Camera assistant
- Sreejith Bendway
- Editor & VFX
- Marshal Jose
- Additional VFX
- Abhijith P T
- Colourist
- Marshal Jose
- Trailer editor
- Sreevalsan R S
Sound & music
- Music
- Nezer Ahemed
- Sound designers
- Shijin Melvin Hutton, Abhishek Nair
- Re-recording mixer
- Fazal A Backer
- Location sound mixer
- Abhishek Nair
- Sound editor
- Keerthan Berny
- Dialogue editor
- Shijin Melvin Hutton
- Assistant re-recording mixers
- Ebin Augustin, Allen Sojan
- Foley supervisor
- Abhijit Vishwanath Sapre
- Foley artists
- Vicky Baburao Arolkar, Abhijeet Sapre
- Foley recording
- Nikhil Prakash Katkar, Abhijeet Sapre
- Dubbing engineer
- Manu A
- Song — “Nagavalli”
- The Down Troddence
Design & finishing
- Poster design
- 4th Man Creations
- Title design
- Rajesh P.K, Red God Studios
- Subtitles
- Teena Elizabeth Chacko
Production facilities
- Production H2N Pictures, South Side Studios
- Camera equipment Camera Land
- Location sound equipment Mile Studio
- DI studio 4th Man Creations
- Sound design studio South Side Studios, Mumbai
- Sound mixing studio Silence Audio Post, Kochi
- Foley studio SSNL, Mumbai
- Dubbing studio Sapatha Records
Press kit, stills
and screeners.
Logline, synopsis, director's statement, credits, high-resolution stills and the poster are available for festival and editorial use.