Plot: When Mattie stops hearing from her boyfriend, she doesn't immediately suspect he's in a lot of trouble. But when she finally seeks him out in his apartment, she finds him hanging from the ceiling. She has a tough time believing he killed himself, and when she starts receiving messages from his computer, she starts her own investigation.
Watches
December 17, 2024
I didn't mind this US remake at all. Sure enough, they've made some silly changes to the plot, with the leads being younger and the setting more school-oriented, but the sullen color palette and the tense scares made it that I prefer this version over the original. I'm not the biggest fan of Kurosawa's horror cinema though.
The performances are a little iffy and the school setting a bit annoying, but other than that this was a lot of fun. The visual trickery is effective and ramps up the scares, the score is decent enough and the premise remains a step up from the norm. Not quite the gem I remembered it to be, but it's a fun horror and one of the best US remakes of Japanese horror films.
December 03, 2006
[review pending]