Anna Nagata, Atsushi Ida, Goro Kishitani
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths.
DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
Stats: 973 reviews
Yumi's friends begin receiving phone calls from their own numbers with a date in the future, and they wind up dead on that date; she fears she too is on the murderer's call list. Miike recycles ideas from the superior AUDITION; attempts to provide psychological depth via child a...( read more)
Some good scares but nothing out of the ordinary. Your usual ringu-esque stuff that could have been directed by anyone else besides Miike.
Worthy (just) addition to the J-horror canon which doesn't stray far from the conventions but has enough chills and a coherent narrative.
Most Japanese movies are considered as low-budget compared to their Hollywood counterparts. This is because their production costs are so high. However this factor does not deter Japanese creative production teams to come up with movie gems, in different genres.
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Not bad, but not especially great either. It boasts some eerie moments, but overall Chakushin Ari isn't much different from the vast majority of Asian paranormal thrillers. I'm a little disappointed, considering this is from the same mind that made Audition and Ichi the Killer.
Generic, but that's the point. I liked the concept a lot and there were effective scares - a rare thing and something indicative of a great horror director.
This movie was boring and not scary at all. The girls screaming was so annoying and sounded so fake. I thought the original would be better than the Hollywood remake, but guess both just suck!
not as scary as i thought it would have been, but i did get a few good scares out of it though not to bad a movie.
I know this is being remade, so watch this one before the (I know it will be) crappy American version. It's not among Miike's best, but sure it is fun and scary. You'll love downloading the cell-phone ringtone.
56/100
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this is the BEST of all the j-horror out there, i was, like all my friends, outraged when we saw the holliwood remake previews it looks horrible. i bet everything has been changed.... but we're going to see it to conferm our suspicions. lol, all my friends will cell phones have this ringtone.
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