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Hey you horror lovers: this film has three movies. The first one is about a little girl that is way too curious for her own good, and does not listen to the warnings "stay out". She sees a little girl that, it seems, only she can see. The little girl thinks that the girl she sees is the new student everyone is talking about. But she soon realizes that is not the case.
The second movie is about high school girls who tell a ghost story, the ghost story is about a room in school that you should not enter at a certain time in the night. So what do they do, they enter it! What happens is not pretty. And what happens to the girls telling the story? Well, find out...
The thid movie is also about girls in high school, who when seeing a dead crow, believe that you cannot feel pity for it. If you do, then you'll be the victim of death. One of the girls could not help but feel sorry for the poor bird, and no matter how much she tried to ignore it, in her heart she cried for the bird. What happens to her? Well, let's say it's not good. |
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Three half-hour vignette chunks that prove the suburbs of Japan are inherently great places to film digital outdoors and in classrooms. Other than the inherently pretty environments like the assortment of classrooms, wooden hallways, swimming pools and beach front industrial gymnasiums, this thing is pretty weak. The "punch lines" are anti-climatic at best, frustrating and disappointing at worst, while the generally arbitrary screeching Casio tone score is annoying like inner mouth blisters on spicy enchilada night. The screeching monkeys sound FX used for the flurry of unseen crows haunting one mentally challenged (my assessment, not the script's) gymkata cutie is hilarious. In the words of my sound sensai Murry "Screaming monkeys. You can never go wrong with screaming minces." Apparently not, as this was a highlight of the film, which is saying very little. The spiraling camera work in the second installment made my kidneys ache. The cut always to frogs, vivisected frogs, tree frogs and a few dead crows did little to invoke fear, but did invoke a deep desire to hit the fast forward button. Did learn a few morals, I guess:
- Schoolgirls of all ages should stay the hell away from schools after hours, especially during the summer, especially especially when classes are about to resume in just a day or two.
- Don't trust "newcomer" students. Ever.
- If a sign next to a door says stay the heck out or die, it is probably best heeded.
- If an editor says he's not sure which sequence to use for the chairs falling on the little girl part of the script, pick one. "Both" is a very, very bad answer.
- Some school girls don't wear baggy socks after all, but all wear underwear bigger than your Granny's.
- Ear bleeds are a sign of possession by the ghost of a pissed off crow you've pitied, let your doctor know!
- Never give a ghost girl your water pistol.
- Never pick up a scalpel from the floor you didn't yourself just drop. Especially if there is blood on it.
- Licking a frog that has just leapt from your dead classmates' split belly will probably not make you high, but will likely have an adverse affect on the camera man.
- To repeat, never ever give a ghost your water pistol, especially if it is loaded.
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