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Gekijô-ban: Zero (2014)
What even was the point of this movie?
First of all, this is not a Fatal Frame movie.
Yes, despite being based on a novel created for a multimedia project for Fatal Frame, this bizarrely has zero connections to anything in the franchise it was created for.
One kid has an old camera that has taken a few ghost photos at one point, but nothing indicates it's a Camera Obscura and I don't think we see it used. The ghost isn't even directly dangerous anyway!
So if it's not a Fatal Frame movie, what is it?
This is hardly a horror movie, nothing in this movie is scary, at best one scene (a dream at that) was slightly eerie but that's it.
I'm not complaining there's no scares or anything (there aren't); it's that there's no real sense of fear, fright, horror, dread, tension, or even unease. I'm very used to slow burns but I'd say this film doesn't even burn to begin with.
It's said this is a lesbian film, but while it's there it's there only barely. The relationship is given like just a couple scenes from what I remember and I was actually surprised to learn it was even considered one. I can safely say that anyone who wants to watch the film for the lesbian aspect will be disappointed.
Despite ostensibly being part of a survival horror franchise about dangerous ghosts, this isn't about any ghosts trying to hurt people.
No, instead this is about some schoolgirls being made to sleepwalk somewhere by a curse (ghost wants people to discover her corpse) before getting killed by a nun and her mentally handicapped brother to cover up ghost girl's death.
Our completely non-threatening antagonists later accidentally drown themselves while hiding from the police. Anticlimatic doesn't begin to describe it.
As another review mentioned, it feels like a bad copy of Whispering Corridors. About the only thing this film has going for it is some decent sets, the school looks nice and it's a shame it wasn't used in a better film.
If you want some Fatal Frame action, read the Fatal Frame: Shadow Priestess/Zero: Kage Miko manga or hell, even watch the Dreadout movie.
If you want to watch schoolgirls being haunted or something, just watch Whispering Corridors.
Even if you must consume everything Fatal Frame, I'd skip this since it has nothing to offer you.
With You (2006)
Did we watch the same movie?
Edit: Both 10/10 reviews have this are the only movie they've ever reviewed, gonna guess they were friends or family.
First off, this was hard to track down from what I remember.
Second, I genuinely don't know what the other reviews are talking about. There's some decent attempts at atmosphere but other than a part where the underside of a table is covered in spiders nothing really strikes me as remotely scary and that scene was more technically impressive for its time than spooky.
The mansion that's talked about for the whole film? THEY NEVER GO TO IT, because it's actually just CGI. The atmosphere is as I said, has some decent attempts but ultimately even those fall flat.
I'm no gorehound or slasher lover, I love a movie that can do dread but this was not such a film, and it couldn't do scary either. The deaths are dull at best.
The ending of the film is just stupidly lame, a ghost of a dude killed earlier says "With you." and grab the protagonist before killing him. That's it.
There was actually some potential in the film and it did understand how to make a nice, dark set and had some good ideas about atmosphere, but it's all wasted and this director never made another movie to refine what talents he had. Skip.