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Bunshinsaba
has been brought to you today by Toilet Pictures. Oh thats
just too easy.
Three
tormented schoolgirls use a Ouija board, a notebook and a pen
to put a curse on the popular girls making their life hell. (Oh
noes! Girlz are meen!) The leader of the trio admonishes the other
two that whatever they do they mustnt open their eyes. No
matter what, their eyes must stay shut or the spirits can enter.
So what does she do? Yeah, she obviously never saw Raiders
of the Lost Ark. The next day the first bully is dead and
her death is ruled a suicide. Because someone would kill themselves
by putting a plastic bag covered in lighter fluid over their head
and lighting it up. Uh huh.
With
girls dropping like (crispy) flies a teacher from the village,
his psychic friend and the new mysterious art teacher will try
and figure out a 30 year old mystery before the ghost completes
her revenge.
Wow,
who knew something could become cliché so fast? Long black
hair hanging over face? Check. Ghost showing up over peoples shoulders?
Under desks? Check. Slowly raising head to show eyes while spooooooky
music plays in the background? Check. I think at this point the
best thing to do would be to take all the long haired ghost girls
and have them duke it out in a Battle Royale. The winner
can continue to make movies. Then maybe this over saturation will
end.
It
did have some things going for it. The cinematography is very
stylish and the soundtrack, when not telling me to be scared was
good. The deaths are well done and some scenes are a little creepy
but overall the movie is just meh. There isnt anything here
we havent seen before and done much better and loads scarier.
In fact thats probably its biggest problem; the movie just
isnt scary. The Asian ghost thing really freaked me out,
probably more than most, and even I couldnt muster up one
single chill.
Many
things just didnt make sense. If Seat 29 has been haunted
for 30 years why the heck would it be left in the classroom? Also,
regarding the girls from the past and present that are being tormented,
if you thought someone was Eeeevil would you really be mean to
them? A spooky ghost kills people in spooky ghost fashion then
inexplicably become a raving scissor maniac? And the very end,
well I cant tell you, but trust me, it makes no sense.
I
would tell you to watch this if you came across it on cable and
you liked the Whispering Corridors movies.
5
out of 10 movies with bits lifted from Nightmare on Elm St
and The Exorcist II, of all things.
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