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Dark Tales of Japan is a direct-to-TV production
which tells five stories of horror. The five
stories are called "The Spiderwoman", "Crevices",
"The Sacrifice", "Blonde Kwaidan" and "Presentiment".
As usual with these anthology horror flicks, we
have reviewed each story individually.
TV-horror movies have become widely popular in Japan
through the last couple of years, especially bad
anthology movies. I find it miraculous that all
these awful TV-anthologies actually manage to find
their way onto DVD, and it's even more surprising
that some of them even get a US DVD release. Dark
Tales Of Japan is just another one in the bunch,
very forgettable with some unimpressive stories.
The first story is called "The Spiderwoman" which
revolves around a reporter who's investigating the
myth about the Spiderwoman. This is a rather good
story and pretty entertaining as well, would never
work as a full length feature but out of the five
stories that we are presented to in this flick,
this is definitely the best one.
"Crevices" is the second story and involves a man
who finds himself in a very weird situation with
ghosts trying to get in through crevices. Very
strange story but even so, it does manage to give
you one good scare and even if it's a very
unoriginal concept, this 10 minute feature is still
a pretty good one.
The third story is called "Sacrifice" and is a big
step down from the previous two stories. This one
revolves around a woman who gets cursed by a man
who she didn't want to go on a date with. The concept
is just ridiculous and it plays more as a drama
than a horror movie (as do most of these stories
if you really think of it).
The fourth story is called "Blonde Kwaidan", which
I think translates into Blonde Ghost. This one is
about a Japanese man who's on a business trip in
Los Angeles and fantasizes about all the blonde
women. What he doesn't know is that there is a
blonde ghost after him, wanting to kill him. Such
a stupid story. This one is luckily only eight
minutes long, and is by far the worst one out of
these short horror flicks.
Finally we have the fifth one which is called
"Presentiment". Now, this one is the slowest out
of the five movies. A man gets stuck in an elevator
with three ghosts. Not really creepy, just a whole
lot of nonsense which might put you nicely to
sleep. This anthology might not be as bad as some
of the other ones out there, but it's still not
a good one. Don't check this one out. It's not
scary, nor gory, nor suspenseful.
Nothing worth mentioning.
To be honest with you, I hardly remember much of a
soundtrack in any of the stories. Sure, we got some
80's pop music in the Blonde Kwaidan one but other
than that, it was pretty quiet.
Very dull Japanese horror anthology. I've had enough
of these actually. Sure, it's great that all stories
are short, but that only makes it a bit more
watch-able. It still doesn't make it good. Don't
check this one out, it doesn't have anything
special and you will forget about it quickly.
Review By: AnthroFred
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