Seriously, this movie features an incredibly flawed concept, that is
besides is also being incredibly simple and formulaic. Basically all
this movie does it telling the same story over and over again, in 10
different chapters, involving different characters.
This is basically what happens in every chapter; person hears a noise,
person checks it out, person sees a ghost, person dies. Really, this is
what happens every time! And was every story supposed to be related? I
don't know, or perhaps I should rather say; I just couldn't care about
it and the movie didn't make enough effort to make this clear enough.
It for some odd reason also gets told in refers order. So the movie
starts at chapter 10 and ends at 1, with a prologue and an epilogue to
it as well. Why? Just because they could I guess, since this approach
doesn't really add anything to the overall movie.
From a movie featuring different chapters, with different stories and
characters in them, you would expect some more variety but 3 chapters
in makes you realize that this movie is going to do absolutely nothing
original and will keep on repeating itself, till it's finally over.
Guess everybody can make a movie that way. It doesn't require any
originality or true effort.
Besides, every chapter is just a few minutes short. How is its tension
supposed to get buildup that way? How are we supposed to care for
characters we only see a few minutes? It all fails at it because of the
reason that most chapters are such incredibly short ones. One is even
about 30 seconds long, which perhaps was the weirdest moment of the
movie.
And because of it that the movie is basically the same thing over and
over again, it totally looses its power. It ruins the tension and
almost completely destroys its horror because you already know what is
going to happen in each chapter. Perhaps lovers of Japanese horror can
still mildly enjoy it. I mean, it's some very typical stuff all and in
all honesty it's not the worst thing you could watch.
Totally lacks originality and keeps on repeating itself! There are
still far more worse movies to watch out there but there is no reason
either why you should ever go watch this one.
5/10
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