When Oshare finds out that her Father's girlfriend is joining them on their summer trip, she and her friends decide to go to her aunt's farmhouse instead. From the moment they arrive, strange things begin to happen and the girls slowly begin to realize Oshare's Aunt may not have their best interests in mind.
I saw this film on the big screen at the Portage Theater in Chicago as part of a 24-hour horror movie marathon. I had never heard of it prior to it being added to the lineup, and was particularly excited to see something I considered obscure. While it was nothing like what I expected, I definitely witnessed the most unusual film of the marathon.
While this is a horror film, it is done in a very non-traditional horror style that I think only the Japanese can get away with. There are plenty of silly moments and many fantasy elements. At times, you just have to say "what the heck" -- had the same film been made in America, I think people would not have been able to handle it.
My only real problem with it was the score. The same theme runs through the movie again and again. While I understand the importance of tying together different scenes with an underlying score, they repeated the same tune more than twenty times... by the halfway point, it became rather tedious (one guy in the audience audibly said, "oh no, not again" and despite being an annoyance, I agreed with him).
I saw this film on the big screen at the Portage Theater in Chicago as part of a 24-hour horror movie marathon. I had never heard of it prior to it being added to the lineup, and was particularly excited to see something I considered obscure. While it was nothing like what I expected, I definitely witnessed the most unusual film of the marathon.
While this is a horror film, it is done in a very non-traditional horror style that I think only the Japanese can get away with. There are plenty of silly moments and many fantasy elements. At times, you just have to say "what the heck" -- had the same film been made in America, I think people would not have been able to handle it.
My only real problem with it was the score. The same theme runs through the movie again and again. While I understand the importance of tying together different scenes with an underlying score, they repeated the same tune more than twenty times... by the halfway point, it became rather tedious (one guy in the audience audibly said, "oh no, not again" and despite being an annoyance, I agreed with him).