| Much more a suspense thriller movie than an actual horror movie.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa takes the early 60s British novel and movie "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" and spices it up with actual ghosts. It maintains a lot of its British feel of an indoor drama were there is a lot going on but only a little of it is shown to the audience. He does an amazing job of drawing us into the story of this couple in the first half of the movie, and then you spend the second half on edge along with the characters.
Going in you need to understand this isn't an American horror movie. There is no gore, no big shock scares, it is about two extremely well crafted characters and the awful choices they make, not because they are evil but because they are human. I do love how the ghosts don't really have to do anything in the movie to make things awful. Their mere existence is enough.
An extremely impressive, deep-thinking psychological horror movie that is even more impressive when you realize this was a TV movie. |