Bhargavi Nilayam

Bhargavi Nilayam (transl.The House of Bhargavi) is a 1964 Indian Malayalam-language romantichorror film directed by A. Vincent (in his directorial debut) and written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer based on the short story Neelavelicham. The film stars Madhu, Vijaya Nirmala, Prem Nazir and P. J. Antony.

The film depicts a compassionate relationship between a talented novelist and the spirit of a beautiful woman who had been murdered. The novelist is writing the story of this woman, into whose former house he has moved in as a tenant. The film mirrors in a meta-cinematic fashion the close and often symbiotic relationships between Malayalam filmmakers and writers in depicting a writer at work, collaborating with an intangible agency in the form of the eponymous Bhargavi. It was the directorial debut of A. Vincent. It is generally regarded as the first horror film in Malayalam.