Name: Chakushin Ari (Japanese)
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Director: Takashi Miike
Release Date: January 17 2004
Tagline: Death cannot be put on hold…
Introduction:
I guess this is Miike’s attempt at a “normal” horror movie. He abandons his usual strangeness in this rather ordinary horror flick for more conventional ways to getting a good scream out of the audience. This movie follows the usual storyline of: 1. Something awful happens and continues to occur with a marked pattern; 2. A potential victim seeks to solve the mystery before she dies; 3. She (usually it’s a female) discovers the source of the problem and dies before she can do anything about it or manages to somehow placate the unhappy spirit.
Synopsis:
A group of friends are having dinner, and three girls end up going to the restroom together after a discussion at the table about fear. While they are inside of the stalls, they hear a strange ring tone coming from one of their phones. Yoko, the unfortunate owner of this phone, finds a message on her answering machine. As she listens to it, it seems that the message is from herself in two days time! The message ends with a bloodcurdling scream they all feel a bit uneasy. Two days later, Yoko calls her friend Yumi, who was also with her in the bathroom, and says the exact same things that were stated in her message to herself, and ultimately dies. Her severed arm (I’ll let you figure out how it got severed) dials a number on her phone to the next victim of this vengeful spirit.
Yumi again witnesses the death of her friends and classmates. Despite their best efforts to thwart this spirit, they all die off one by one (replete with creepy red candy coming out of their mouths), and someone from their phonebook becomes the next victim. When Yumi gets the call herself, she tries to solve this deadly mystery with the help of a man who had lost his sister in a similar fashion.
Review:
I was a bit disappointment with this movie, mostly because Miike has always been so original in the past. While I was entertained for the duration of the movie, it didn’t leave a lasting impression on me. Chakushin Ari employs the usual cheap scares that most horror movies do: the creepy black haired girls, young children hiding in cupboards, creepy shower scenes, etc. While Miike claims that this movie was supposed to add something different to the genre, he didn’t succeed very well. This movie was way too similar to Ringu and Ju-on, though I guess Ju-on did come after this movie. I mean, the phone calls two days before you die? The tragic, evil little girl ghost with mother issues? The decaying body found by the heroine?
Though I didn’t enjoy the plot, I did enjoy some of the horror aspects of the movie. Some of the death scenes were quite creative, and it did move at a nice pace, so you were interested throughout the movie. I wouldn’t call this movie unsettling, like Audition or Suicide Club, but it is scarier than both in a theater-screaming sort of way. Regardless, this movie certainly isn’t bad, and it’s probably creepier than any American remake of a Japanese movie, so I guess it deserves a viewing as much as the next one, but Chakushin Ari isn’t an essential for your repertoire in Asian horrors. If you’re bored, go watch it. It will keep you entertained while it lasts!
Ratings:
Entertainment: 7
Scares: 9
Gore: 4
Go watch it if you want to, though it’s nothing special.
Sequels:
Two sequel were made to this movie, though neither was directed by Miike. I guess they're decent as far as sequels go, but once again, they're nothing too special.
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