The movie at hand however was a perfectly good Japanese horror film and if you like the way Japanese do their scary stuff you will like this too. Now some say that Japanese like to use a lot of psychological horror and while that's true this film also has a lot of gore for those of you who are into that kind of stuff. Compared to your average horror flick where a group of young people try to escape lots whatever dangers that follow this movie is more clever. Running and hiding won't save our heroes and classical survival skills are of very little use. They need to use their brains and be witty. Whether the sort of dangers they face are twisted or weird is up to the viewer to decide. I suppose they are very unconventional, but the writer here prefers nesting dolls and polar bears to whatever natural disaster Americans might have them running from. Then again - are catastrophe films same as horror films? I'm not sure, I guess not...tell me in comments?
When I should describe this movie without giving much away I would say that it feels like a strange mixture of Hunger Games and Happy Tree Friends. Hunger Games, because it has this bunch of kids who have to participate in games in order to win a chance to - well live. It's much less like Happy Three Friends, but it's the only series I know that I can create a parallel with. It has those adorably funny and kind of cute characters at times that do things that are so incredibly creepy and horrible, while still remaining kind of cute. There are good laughs here and there and then there are things that will test your tolerance levels.
The plotting is good and it has a lot of great twists, some of which went fully unexpected for me and some I could sort of get the general direction of, but that still surprised me as well. It's thrilling and captivating as well as pretty creepy and scary at points.
Oh and I feel the need to add that the ending however went over my head. I was really confused about what the moral of the story was and whether there was a God or no. But maybe it was meant that way. Also I didn't get the otaku guy. Who was he in the end? Why was he? Anyone?
Eestikeelne postitus tuleb siis, kui mul selle kirjutamiseks isu tuleb, aga kui seda aega ei tulegi võite rahulikult inglise keeles lugeda... kui saate ja oskate. Kui ei oska, siis ütlen lihtsalt lühidalt, et film on vaatamist väärt kui verd veidi välja kannatad ja põnevus meeldib.
