For a while, 3:33 feels like a psychological thriller. We have a family that moves into a new home. Kathir (Sandy), the young man of the family, senses some bad vibrations right from the day they moved in. He hears mysterious voices, the door knob rattles though there is no one on the other side, lights flicker at random, crows seem to target him, there are accidents, and most of all, he has dreadful nightmares, which occur at exactly 3:33, which is the time has was born at. But his family, which involves his mother (Rama), elder sister Devi (Reshma Pasupuleti) and her daughter Nivya, do not feel anything amiss. So, are those spooky occurrences Kathir's imagination? The film manages to keep us intrigued up to this point. And then, it clearly specifies that there is some evil in the place. Director Nambikkai Chandru gives us a couple of eerie moments (he effectively uses lights and shadows to amp up the weirdness) when Kathir wakes up from his nightmares and experiences the presence of the supernatural, but after a point, this becomes repetitive. And the reactions of his family members after they realise what they are facing doesn't feel convincing. We get a scene with an exorcist (Mime Gopi), who warns them of the evil, and yet, they continue to go about their lives as usual, even after they get possessed by the evil spirits (the makeup in these moments actually makes them seem comical, with the ladies looking like they have smeared multani mitti all over their body). The film then throws stuff like semi-evil numbers, mediums who communicate with ghosts and more scenes with Kathir that may or may not be bad dreams, but by then, the film stops being truly scary and turns exhausting.Read more