| The recent flow of horror films from Japan will be greatly helped by this entry! Not only does it succeed as a good story, but the special FX and action does nothing to deter from this. A girl, Junko, with pyrokinesis (the ability to set things on fire with mental strength) takes revenge on some teenage, who run a snuff film business, and have killed the sister of one of Junko's friends. The first half of the film runs like a cop-thriller (like SEVEN) with two detectives tracking the killings of the teenagers, then the burnings that follow. The second half, however, lends itself more to horror-action sequences and could very well be some of the most beautiful footage ever filmed. Though a little slow moving, not so much, though, as other Japanese horrors such as the first RING film and TOMIE, it still manages a nice pace and succeeds on every level, not just as a genre film, but as a great movie all around. |
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