Winter

Winter is an Indian Malayalam-language slasher film starring Jayaram and Bhavana released in 2009. The film was shot in 2003. It was written and directed by Deepu Karunakaran and produced by K. Radhakrishnan. The music is scored by M. R. Rajakrishnan. Later the film was dubbed into Tamil as Bhayam Bhayam released in 2012. Plot The film tells the tale of Dr Ramdas (Jayaram) and his family being terrorized by a series of mysterious phenomena in their new house. The woods that the house is surrounded by was previously the site of a number of serial killings of children, attributed to a psychopath. The psychopath died nearby while being chased by the police. Soon, the mysterious killings start again, and Ramdas tries to figure out the connection between his house and the serial killings. The film begins with a number of children who are kidnapped and murdered by slitting their throats in a village locality in Andhra Pradesh. One victim was found alive by the police, led by A.C.P. Saju Paul (Vijayakumar), and was saved by a Malayali surgeon in the area named Dr Ramdas (Jayaram). Saju tells Ramdas that he suspects that the killings are the acts of a psychopath watching the children die of blood loss. They track the killer to an abandoned house. The psychopath is killed in the subsequent car chase after an explosion, and his burnt remains are found in his jeep. 1 year later, Dr Ramdas and his wife Shyama (Bhavana) live in a flat in Hyderabad. Their older daughter gets into trouble at school, and they consult a psychologist Dr Vinod (Manoj K. Jayan). Dr Vinod advises them to move the kids to a spacious home instead of the apartment, to give the children space to run and play around the house like in his traditional family house. After a long search, Dr Ramdas finds an ad for the Hillview house in a newspaper. Visiting the house, he meets a man named Stalin, who reveals that he is the owner of the house, and that he lives in a cottage on the property. Despite his strange behaviour, Dr Ramdas decides to buy the house.