Seance

Seance (2001)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (862 ratings)

Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Jack Corrales
Written By
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tetsuya Onishi
Genres
Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 1, 2000 Wide
On DVD
May 17, 2005
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.

  • 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.