Review of Yogen

Yogen (2004)
6/10
Didn't know what to expect....
17 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
A surprisingly good movie! When I first saw the box I didn't know what to expect. I figured it would be a low budget looking foreign film with blood and guts oozing everywhere. What I saw though, was a well crafted, suspenseful, chilling and bizarre film. At first the thought of a "killer newspaper" was kind of corny, but after watching this movie, it only makes the movie more appealing.

A guy is haunted by a newspaper that is called the "paper of death", which shows itself to random people detailing horrible deaths of people who are in their communities. A demon newspaper if you will. The main actor finds a newspaper clipping in a phone both that details his daughters death, that happens that same day. In horror he watches as his daughter is crushed in their car by a dump truck and explodes. From that point on the movie takes off on a bizarre trip into the supernatural while this lead character and his ex-wife try to uncover the source of this newspaper and the reason for their daughter's death.

There are some shocking images in the movie, like his wife being smashed by a truck on the side of the road, or when dead people start to contact him in all their gross dead states, one scene in particular shows a girl that has just died appearing to him in a hallway with her face ripped out of her head.

I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a good foreign horror movie.
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