movie: P.O.V. - The Cursed Film (Norowareta Firumu)

Not a bad movie, but a few too many conceits at the end. The film ends several times, which was kind of neat. The scary school was a fantastic backdrop, as always, and some of the camera work was so suspense-inducing that I found the hair on my arms rising and a big smile creeping across my face.

The acting is, across the board, typical for a Japanese drama, which doesn't lend much to the found-footage nature of the film. Even if none of the scenes were improvised, I think they could have increased the tension in the acting by just telling the actors that occasionally things were going to happen, thus keeping them more on edge.

There's a sequence in the middle which plays a bit with time, which was really creepy and fun.

The ghosts, overall, were scary, but didn't make much sense in the overall theme -- I suppose I should be thankful to not have everything explained for me, but there were some things which were so over-explained that the missing bits just feel thematically off.

3 out of 5 shrieking aidoru