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A man gets
obsessed with fear after having
recorded a man committing suicide. He heads
down into the underground in order to find a
gateway to hell. When he finally finds it, he
also finds a young girl who's chained by her
ankle. He decides to bring her home but after
an accident, he realizes that she only drinks
and eats blood.
Takashi Shimizu shot this weird horror movie
in only eight days and I have read such great
things about this movie. Everyone who's seen
it seems to love it. Well allow me to disagree.
Sure, Marebito is a very strange, original and
eerie movie but it feels like you're watching
a documentary on the Japanese Discovery channel.
So how does one go about to describe Marebito.
Well, do you remember the Guinea Pig movie
called "Mermaid In A Manhole"? Marebito is
pretty much an updated version of that flick
but instead of a mermaid, it's a vampire.
We get to follow a man as he gets more and more
attached to his newfound vampire friend. He
starts to kill people so that she can stay
alive. The movie is very slow, and normally
I don't mind Japanese horror movies being slow
as that usually makes them even better but
this movie is way too slow and it doesn't
really get going until one hour into the
movie, and not even then is it very intriguing.
I guess people must like the originality and
weirdness of the movie but the fact is, the
movie was only shot in eight days, and you
can easily tell. The story is simply not
strong enough even though it is eerie which
leads me to wonder how people can love this
movie as much as they do. Obviously you
should check this one out to get your own
opinion on it since I seem to be disagreeing
with everyone on this one, who knows, maybe
you'll turn out to love it as well.
Minor gore, some throat slashing and blood
coughing but nothing more.
We get very little music which only adds to
the entire documentary feeling. We get some
occasional piano music but I really could
have used some more.
Most people seem to love this movie but I have
to disagree as I thought it was way too slow
and way too sloppily put together. In my
opinion it was easy to tell that it was shot
in eight days and I had really expected a whole
lot more from this seeing as how Takashi
Shimizu directed it. I don't know, maybe that
was why I was so disappointed in it.
Review By: AnthroFred
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