Instead, I got what amounts to a feature-length commercial for said Shock Labyrinth. Also in 3-D (if you have the proper player), Tormented opens with 10-year-old Daigo (Takeru Shibuya, who acts primarily by blinking) putting a gravely injured rabbit out of its misery, much to the horror of his fellow classmates and his mute older […]
Ju-on
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The Shock Labyrinth
This is surprising, given that the Japanese horror feature was directed by Takashi Shimizu, the guy who birthed The Grudge franchise. Not that he’s an infallible filmmaker by any stretch of the imagination, but Labyrinth finds him revisiting those reliable themes, with the added dimension — literally — of playing in 3-D. (Well Go USA’s […]
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Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost
Japan’s latest chapters to its “Ju-on” franchise are only an hour each, but their brevity is your gain for their stateside DVD release, as Well Go USA pairs them as a seamless double feature in “Ju-On: White Ghost / Black Ghost.” While exposure to the previous “Ju-on” films — or their American “Grudge” remakes — […]