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Akuma ga Sumu Ie 2001

Demon House 2001

Japan 2001
directed by Noboru Miyashita
starring Hiromi Kitagawa, Remi Kawashima, Rie Fukaumi, Hisae Ukita

review by
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3 completely unrelated stories:

1) For the next few days, 6 girls of the swimming team are lodged up at a cabin in the middle of nowhere as part of their training camp, but the girlsdecide to party a little, and since they have brought bottle rockets, they decide to shoot them ... but they haven't brought a bottle - so they just take one with a bunch of flowers in it just standing around in the open as an offering to the dead, dump the flowers and ... and suddenly they are bumped off one by one until one of them, Sanae, finds herself in a cabin fullof corpses. When she makes her hasty escape though, she bumps into a guy who seems to be more than keen on killing her too ... until he himself is killed by the girls' swimming coach whom Sanae's friend Risa called in just in time. Turns out the killer had put the flowers in the bottle where they were as an offering to his dead sister and got so angry when the girls desecrated his offering tht he decided to kill them, one by one.

2) It's Christmas eve and the girls' dorm is empty, empty but for four girls who have decided to thros a party and even invite a boy, Ryuhei, around. Instead though, a killer in a Santa Claus outfit pays them a visit and bumps them off one by one, until he has the last of the girls cornered on the roof of the dorm and ... is thrown off the roof by Ryuhei - who also wears a Santa Claus outfit.

Thrown off to his death ?

Nope, in best horror tradition the killer somehow has survived the fall ...

3) A quartet of girls are on their first holiday trip togther to visit Ayumi's grandma, but one of them, Mitsuko, is acting a bit strange, seeing all sorts of things that freak her out, and pretty soon the others (who can't see what she sees) too. Soon enough, the girls start turning up dead, and grandma too, until only Ayumi and Mitsuko are left alive ... which is when Ayumi realizes Mitsuko has no reflection in the mirror. In panic, she makes an escape and runs right in front of a car, is run over and dies ... it's only then that we hear a message on her cellphone that Mitsuko has died two days ago (also having been run over by a car), and apparently it was her spirit that couldn't let go who accompanied the others to Ayumi's grandma ...

 

Cheaply made horror anthology with the main selling point being that all the girls are played by idols (a rather peculiar and typical Japanese phenomenon - cute teenage girls who have become celebrities primatily through heavy marketing). The first two stories of this anthology are slasher stories pretty much stripped to the bone but not too well-made or indeed too exciting. It's rather your run-of-the-mill mad killer plot with nothing much to catch your attention. Only the third story, the ghost story, is at least partially interesting - though it would have greatly profited from a slightly bigger budget and more professional camerawork and lighting to create the proper atmosphere to go with this kind of story ...

Not really worth your while.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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