Seance doesn't work as well as Pulse, another one of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies, because there's no real foundation for the slow-burn atmosphere. Pulse featured a plot about isolation, so the film felt appropriately lonely and claustrophobic. Seance feels like it's being slow for ...( read more)
Adam West, Corey Feldman, Daikei Shimizu
Directed by: Jack Corrales, John Preston, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Release Date: January 1, 2001
DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
Stats: 50 reviews
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February 26, 2007
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June 1, 2008
Slow, plodding, bland drama with a couple coffee spillers thrown it. Uneven with plot holes (beating a ghost with a stick?), the film comes to an unexpected halt (I think they ran out of film and decided to go with what they had). Don't expect much and you wont be disappointed.
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March 22, 2008
Interesting premise and a fairly good execution, but seemed to be missing something for me. Enjoyable suspense-laden film, though.
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January 14, 2008
Slow and predictable - couldn't make it all the way through, so I missed out on the pay-off at the end (assuming there is one). I may give it another go at some point
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December 9, 2007
Okay, I'm just never going to 'get' this director at all. The glacial pacing of the film coupled with the silly gaps in logic just don't amount to much with this movie. The cinematography looks great at first, but what is supposedly deliberate and forced perspectives just becam...( read more)
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October 2, 2007
The ending was predictable of course, overall a pretty descent movie not what I expected at all well worth the watch.
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July 13, 2007
This is a great movie and a terrible movie. It's very slow in the beginning with little in way of suspense. Then It turns into this great original story. Then some cheesy effects(Was that suppose to be a puppet?) and a dissappointing ending bring you right back down. A remake of...( read more)
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March 8, 2007
i did not mean to rate this film. i have not seen it and i have no idea what it is about. I was doing a search of Akira Kurosawa
Thats Weird! I'm waching Pulse right as i type this
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