Shiraz Ahmed

Review of Zee5’s Poison- A revenge thriller, minus the thrill

Take a cult Hollywood movie, mangle it beyond recognition, throw in several hackneyed twists, add generous doses of s*x and violence, and what do you get? A grave disappointment called Poison, that’s what. Poison is the latest web series from Zee5’s much-touted Originals repertoire. The 11-episode series takes its premise from the iconic Hollywood flick, Cape Fear. The story is a revenge thriller, where the protagonist, falsely incarcerated for the rape and murder of a minor girl, goes about extracting clinical, cold-blooded revenge from those who had wronged him. But while Cape  | Click Here...