On Sep 4, 1:40 am, ReVulse
wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:28:24 -0700, Benoit Meulle-Stef wrote:
> > The new movie from Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
>
> Depend what you classify as "new".
>
> > It's realy scary... There are
> > some amazing moments. I recomend it to anyone who loves Japanese
> > horror films.
> > Cheers
> > Benoit
>
> There's only two reviews on imdb and neither are particularly encouraging :
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443231/
>
> --
> #Andy#
I'll add to the nay-sayers on this one. This starts out as an
acceptable mystery tale with plenty of the atmospherics that one
might expect of Kyoshi Kurosawa. Quite quickly in the proceedings it
starts morphing into a naff send-up of j-horror. The overall
feeling I got from this (saw it a film festival with a full house,
lots of walkouts) was a kind of embarassed smugness which puzzled me.
Kurosawa wasn't just lampooning the now familiar generic traits of j-
horror but his own off-centre approach to it (eg Kairo/Pulse, Kourei,
Cure). This didn't come across as healthy self-depcreciation as much
as a nervous attempt to disassociate himself from a genre to which he
made intriguing and powerful contributions. God only knows what he
was thinking with this one. I sat in the cinema surrounded by people
whose laughter sounded non-commital.
I'd say what a pity about this director but maybe he just wants to
shake a reputation. His late 90s/early 00s horror films are among the
finest new genre works I've seen in decades. Then again, I also lived
through his earlier The Guard from Underground which I also thought
was a smug joke. So, who knows?
PJ
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