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Seance

Seance (2000)

  • 80% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (926 ratings)

A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their house and her ghost begins to haunt not only Junko but also her husband,… More

PG,
Directed By
Written By
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tetsuya Onishi
Genres
Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 1, 2000 Wide
Daiei Studios

Critic Reviews

  • Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

    Junko suffers from Lady Macbeth syndrome with a 21st-century careerist twist: Her ambition is strictly for herself, and she'll kill to satisfy it, quickly and coldly.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Under Kurosawa's richly stylized direction it's kept moody, atmospheric and what seems only frivolous entertainment becomes something that's more provocative.

  • Jason Gorber, Film Scouts

    A mix of crime drama and psychic mysticism, the film plays like a thriller without many thrills.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Kurosawa's film is creepy -- the atmosphere is bathed in dread -- but rarely frightening.

  • Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

    Its portrait of spiritual estrangement generates profound unease.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Drew S


    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… More

  • alan j


    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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