Plot: Sayo is new in town. On her first day at school, she sees her classmate Maho getting bullied by a group of girls. Not wanting to take sides, Sayo tries to remain neutral, but soon enough she's also pressured into bullying Maho. Not much later Maho is found dead in a toilet at school. Around the same time, the hauntings begin.
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October 21, 2024
It's a shame to see Yamada ending up a generic horror director, but such is his fate. Hanako of the Toilet is a popular legend (and adapted quite a few times already), but this reboot doesn't add much to the plot. There's too much time spent on mediocre drama, and not enough on the horror elements.
The performances are mediocre, the plot is generic and the horror is predictable. There are some decent scenes and the pacing is solid, but there have been too many similar films already and Yamada does little to nothing to set this one apart from all the others. Japanese horror filler in the purest sense of the words.