dummyperception Review of Apartment 1303

Apartment 1303 (2007)

Should've been the mother and daughter insteaad of the lady by the elevator.

[6/10 · 11 November 2012]

I kind of knew that there was something going on upon seeing the title. What really made me want to watch it was Eriko Hatsune (I first saw her in Uzumaki,another movie that's not quite convincing either). There are a lot of dead ends in the story. I saw a lot of irrelevant elements exposed to the plot, wasting the time that should have been used to make the story a lot clearer. They all had the same cause of deaths. But showed different symptoms before they died (eating dog food, etc., then getting pulled by hair that made me go "WTF?!"). I mean what's the hair got to do with everything? And why, if I may ask, was the sister the only one the ghost was chasing after when there were more people that's gone into the room? I dunno, they're kinda going after some story and then inserting another that's of no relevance (Ex: "Mom pushed me!") And I didn't get the bipolarity of Yukiyo (Melodramatic to psychotic; I mean c'mon!). It's not that I think that it had to have a good ending (I kinda expected that Mariko gets pushed off anyway, maybe by the mother), but the mom-daughter background story was not developed enough to support the ghost's "grudge". Let's just say that the film could've used more development for the story of the mother and daughter's relationship, and should have not used the time to film some legend that had nothing to do with the plot, so it's only 6/10 from me.