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Tokyo Psycho
follows a young woman who has been
receiving strange and obscure letters recently.
As she gets more and more frightened she soon
realizes that a psychopath is out to get her.
Will she be able to run away or will the
psychopath find her first?
Ten minutes into this movie I smelled something
fishy. It felt as if it was made by the same team
that made the not so great Japanese horror flick
Cursed. So I checked it up on the internet and
turns out I was right. Once again I realized that
I was going to have to sit through a nonsense
movie with a rubbish story shot with a betacam.
Unfortunately for me, this was even worse than
Cursed. Tokyo Psycho tries to be a disturbing
psychological thriller but falls flat in every
possible aspect. The movie's only 76 minutes long
and it doesn't even kick in until after an hour
so that leaves us with 16 minutes of relatively
uninteresting horror and 60 minutes of nothing
basically. It suffers from the same thing that
Cursed suffers from, it seems as if it goes on
and on forever even if it's really not that long.
Once again the directing and photography is
abysmal. It's not impossible to make a movie
look good with a betacam but these guys clearly
don't know how to use one. The movie's filled
with annoying lens flares, ridiculously bright
skies which gives us the feeling that we're
watching a very cheap high school documentary.
The acting is also pretty bad. There's one
scene where the starring girl is crying like
hell, but still she only manages to press one
tear out of her right eye. That's not very
believable and that's the main reason to why
this movie didn't become disturbing. The
leading female actress never seems even
slightly intimidated by the even less credible
psychopath. There are simply no emotions
involved in the movie that you can see.
We've seen this concept a million times before
and I think they were trying to bring back
Guinea Pig style movies to Japan but they
sure failed miserably. The story is pretty
ludicrous and not even the special effects
are very good. This was just yet another cheap
and awful horror title disguised with an
expensive looking DVD cover to trick us into
buying it. I think that I will stay away
from movies from this company in the future
as they really don't seem to have any
potential at all to make a solid horror
flick. You can remove this one from your
wanted list, it's not a good movie.
A girl has her face pealed off, off screen,
and we get a relatively gory eye.
Cheesy piano music plays throughout the movie.
Cursed was bad, Tokyo Psycho was worse. Don't
get tricked by the cover, you will only be
disappointed. Tokyo Psycho was a completely
worthless film and this is nothing that I can
recommend you to see. Check out the Guinea Pig
movies instead if you want to see something
with a higher disturbance factor.
Review By: AnthroFred
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