Forest Vampire, and also spelled Katteri) is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language comedy horror film written and directed by Deekay[1] and produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja under his production banner Studio Green.

The film stars Vaibhav, Sonam Bajwa, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Aathmika, while Karunakaran, Ravi Mariya, and Kutty Gopi play supporting roles.

[2] The film's music is composed by S. N. Prasad with editing by Praveen K. L. and cinematography by Vignesh Vasu.

Gajja, Kaliyurunda, and Sankar, a group of kidnappers, kidnap Kamini and bring her to Naina.

The kidnappers escape from the henchmen, come to Kiran's first night room, and tell them about the kidnap and Naina's plan to ask for a huge ransom from Kamini's family.

Kiran's wife Shwetha instructs them to kidnap Kamini from the henchmen and demand a large ransom.

Shwetha instructs them to meet Maathamma and correctly answer questions in order to obtain the gold, so they walked to Mathamma's place.

Venu tells a well digger Sambath to dig a well at the back of their house and orders Mohini to help him.

So they take a chicken and throw it down the well, and this time they get a large mud pot filled with gold and a piece of paper with the same message as earlier.

When Mathamma and Mohini pulled the rope, a big wooden barrel appeared with a paper written with "Keep sending this to me".

They understood that the well needed human flesh, so they ask Aarumugam, a police officer, for dead bodies, which he gave.

[5] However, the filmmakers managed to rope in Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Sonam Bajwa, Aathmika, and Manali Rathod in the female prominent roles.

M Suganth of Times of india gave 2 stars out of 5 and stated that "all in the name of comedy, and this is where the film feels most outdated.

"[13] Navein Darshan from Cinema Express wrote that "We sit patiently waiting for a bright moment to come our way.