New Delhi, Aug 3 - If the year started off on a spooky note with 'Raaz - The Mystery Continues', the first film from Ram Gopal Varma's stable this year is also an adventure thriller called 'Agyaat'. Releasing Friday, the film is inspired by Hollywood thrillers like 'Predator', 'Anaconda' and 'Alien'.

While Varma's last was the much-talked about dud 'Phoonk - The Black Magic Story' that dealt with evil practices in the contemporary world, 'Agyaat' is a thriller and not a horror flick.

'People are perceiving that 'Agyaat' is a horror film. I would like to make a point here that it's not a scary film. It's an adventure thriller,' Varma had told IANS.

Shot mostly in the Sigiriya jungles of Sri Lanka and the Athirapally forests in Kerala, the film is not only inspired by Hollywood thrillers, but also by real life, eerie incidents that Varma's unit members experienced while shooting his 2000 movie 'Jungle' in the Bandipur reserved forest in Karnataka.

Produced by Varma and Ronnie Screwvala, 'Agyaat' tells the story of a film unit on a shoot in a dense forest where the crew members start getting killed one by one under mysterious circumstances by an invisible creature.

'Hollywood has made thousands of such films about people stuck somewhere and getting killed under unknown reasons. I thought what if this time people don't see what is killing them... the idea was to compel them to use their own imagination as a weapon, which is more lethal,' the filmmaker said.