Title: P.O.V.: A Cursed Film Original Title: ＰＯＶ～呪われたフィルム (POV Nowareta Firumu) Release: 2012 Director: Tsuruta Norio Language: Japanese Genre: Horror / Mocumentary Length: 92 minutes
Short summary:
This movie is about two girls who are filming some TV show. They watch some footage in the studio but there seems something wrong with it. Suddenly they see some strange woman in the window reflection. They decide to go to the place where the footage was filmed and end up in a school one of the girls went to during middle school. They feel being followed and some strange happenings take place.
Review:
I really like the start of the movie. It's really exciting and I got scared many times. The part at school is also made very good and the actors behave very natural. It's really sad that the end of the movie is so disappointing. It wasn't scary anymore. It got boring but somehow funny in a very bad way.
Title: Nori - The Curse Original Title: ノロイ (noroi) Release: 2005 Director: Shiraishi Kōji Language: Japanese Genre: Horror / Documentary Length: 115 minutes
Short summary:
Noroi is a documentary-styled horror movie about rituals and curses.
A paranormal expert named Kobayashi Masafumi is the main character in this movie. Along with his camera he visits a woman called Ishii Junko who behaves quite strange. It's said that the neighbour often hears the cries of babies. But Kobayashi can't find out more about that at first. Later in the movie he gets to know Kagutaba which is some kind of demon and which is related to Ishii and the baby screams. In rituals (called Kimatsuri (demon festival)) Kagutaba was venerated but during those sessions also many paranormal happenings occured.
Review:
For me it was only the second time to watch a documentary-styled movie. So it was still quite new for me. And it's been very interesting.
In the beginning you get to know the story little by little. Kobayashi always takes his camera with him to interviews with people or on excursions. Sometimes there are also shown some tv shows and stuff like that. It's done very good although in the beginning nothing really happens.
It takes a while until you understand how everything comes together. And while you try to connect all the incidences the movie also becomes more scary and just more excited. It's not like you see any monsters or something like that. It's always only very short scenes where you can recognize things that shouldn't be there. But it's only for a few seconds which makes the movie so frightening. You always wait for more.
In the end the "documentary" is finished and you're told that Kobayashi is missing but he sent some new film material.
This ending just freaked the shit out of me! I LOVED it. It was kinda surprising and also scary. I really needed to watch something fun afterwards.
It's perfect fo a frightening horror night in a dark room in front of the tv. Two hours of disturbing scenes.
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