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Teketeke 2
Japan 2009
produced by Junichi Matsushita, Hideki Onuki, Yoshikazu Sato for Honda Entertainment, Tsuburaya Productions/Art Port
directed by Koji Shiraishi
starring Sayuri Iwata, Miu Nakamura, Yoko Chosokabe, Hatsume Matsushima, Risa Machi, Ayano Yamamoto, Sayumi, Mikan Asakura, Seiko Ando, Saori Amano, Kaoru Mizuki, Shinmei Tsuji, Tomoaki Hayashishita, Tomohiro Takada, Yoichiro Kawakami, Mitsuki Yamagata, Kohei Wakabayashi, Yuko Oshima, Yukijiro Hotaru, Shinnosuke Abe
written by Takeki Akimoto, music by Mari Shimizu, visual effects by Tsuyoshi Kazuno
Teketeke
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Nerdy wallflower schoolgirl Keiko researches the story of Teketeke, the
mysterious supernatural psycho killer who misses her lower half - and soon
enough, girls turn up cut in half, which almost certainly is the handiwork
of Teketeke. Interestingly, those who turn up dead are exclusively girls
from Keiko's class who have bullied her. Aika, the only girl who has
ever been nice to Keiko, finds out that Keiko has actually found a way to
control Teketeke and now has her do her bidding (killing those who were
mean to her), so, to save her fellow
schoolgirls and herself, she teams up with Hatashi, a scientist's
absent-minded assistant (from the first Teketeke),
and together they soon find out about Teketeke's past (like the fact that
she was gangraped as a girl) and find a mad pattern in her killings, a
pattern that pretty much condemns four of Aika's fellow students to death.
Aika and Hatashi rush to the scene to save the girls, but too late, Keiko
has already let her killer loose on them. But if Keiko thought she could
control Teketeke permanently, she was wrong, because she was the next on
her list. But she lives long enough to communicate to Aika how to get rid
of Teketeke permanently - and Aika manages to make her disappear just
before Teketeke cuts her in half as well ... but in the meantime, cut
apart Keiko has turned into the new Teketeke. Just like the
first Teketeke, Teketeke 2
is nothing special, a rather routine piece of horror cinema, but where the
first film had at least an original killer and original killings to offer,
in part 2 it's just more of the same, so the film outstays its welcome
rather quickly, not at all helped of course by too much focus on dialogue
rather than action and a lack of creepy atmosphere. Now don't get me
wrong, this is not the worst movie ever seen, but it's not really
worthwhile nevertheless.
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