|
SHIKOKU
PLOT
When Hinako was only a child she was separated from her two
best friends, Fumiya and Sayori, as she moved to Tokyo. Now,
many years later, Hinako has returned to the small village of
Shikoku to meet her childhood friends, but it turns out that
Sayori drowned many years ago. When Hinako starts seeing Sayori
in her dreams and such, she seeks help from Fumiya, thinking
that Sayori wants to hurt her.
REVIEW
Yet another longhaired girl ghost story to come from Asia, only
this time, it's not scary or original. The girl doesn't even
look creepy. I think they could've done a lot more with the
story than what they did since it does have the potential to
be a good horrormovie, and even if it's interesting to follow
the exploring of Sayori's life, it's not intense enough.
It's surprising to see that the directing in this movie is
so unimaginative as it is. We don't get one single scene that
looks really good, and thee camerawork is also quite shaky and
doesn't look very good at all. A lot of the movie is too dark
and you can't see what's going on, and that's a major minus in
my record as I hate it when you can't see what's going on. The
acting isn't all that bad though, except for from the old
Sayori who isn't very convincing at all.
While not being a very good ghost movie at all, I tried not
to compare it too Asian masterpieces like Ringu or Kairo,
but it's not very easy when it borrows so much from all of
these movies and tries to be a masterpiece of its own. It
doesn't feel as you've wasted two hours but it does feel as
if you might aswell have watched some classic instead.
GORE
No gore at all, not even some rotten skeletons, Sweet Home
Alabama had more gore in it than this, referring to the cat.
SOUNDTRACK
It opens up quite promising with some piano music and some
really excellent atmospheric guitar music, but after that it
gets very unoriginal and it seems as if you've heard the
same soundtrack in just about every other Asian horrormovie
there is, very uncreative.
BOTTOM LINE
Not as good as the majority of the other Asian ghost movies
and I'm not even sure it's worth a watch, I would rather have
seen Ringu or Dark Water again instead of seeing this, but I
should've seen it coming as I had never heard of it before...
and there was indeed a reason for that.
Review
By: AnthroFred
|
