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Pray


Original title: Pure
Country: Japan
Year: 2005
Director: Yuichi Sato

Adapted from a story by Tomoko Ogawa, if I had not read the original story probably would not have understood much about the plot. Pure part by a fairly interesting (a kidnapping that turns into a ghost story, yet I missed this) but will expire at the obvious and taken for granted with little dialogue and incisive writings probably under the influence of some illegal substance (the only amazing thing in this film, in my opinion) and expressiveness from the actors who flaunt squid in brine.

Mitsuru Miwa and decide to kidnap a child (a case !?!?!? the film seems so ...) in order to repay a large debt due to the ransom money. Too bad the plan goes up in smoke thanks to the arrival of three friends (a little dumb, if you will pardon the expression) and a pair of ghosts for that purpose.
course, what better place to hide if not the old scuola di lui? L'espediente permette di mettere in scena le più ridicole scene horror mai viste: un tripudio di mani mozzate col compasso (non scherzo, provate a misurare la macchia di sangue e ve ne accorgerete), taglierini killer, lavagne assassine e gabinetti mortali. Niente di eccessivamente splatter, anzi. L'orrore è più che altro suggerito (molto bene oserei aggiungere: dopo un minuto di film già avrei voluto cavarmi gli occhi dalla noia) dall'atmosfera tetra dell'edificio in cui si svolge l'intera vicenda.
Su tutto aleggia poi la presenza di una bambina pseudo muta che passa tutto il film a giocare a nascondino, rendendosi oggetto dell'odio non solo dei protagonisti ma anche mio. Aggiungiamoci anche il fantasma di una girl commits suicide for love and the recipe is ready.
If the final scene in the gym could give full meaning to the whole story, giving a very touching moment, the last shots outside ruin the already fragile house of cards upon which the whole movie and call into question the entire thesis, thus making vain attempts to rationalize.
boring and disappointing.

Rating: 4

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House


Original title: Hausu
Country: Japan
Year: 1977
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi


cult film for some movies to forget for (many) more ... Hausu is the directorial debut of Nobuhiko Obayashi, which in 1977 brings a frenzy of on-screen color images and perhaps never seen before.
History, fairly trivial, part of the usual school and the usual schoolgirl at the mercy of the inevitable family crisis. From here the idea of \u200b\u200bbringing a group of companions on a trip to the home of her aunt, who lives in a kind of cursed castle on top of the cliff top surrounded by a moat and fiery lava and guarded by a ferocious dragon.
Seriously, the "home" is the true protagonist of the film, acting as a refuge and a prison at the same time, place of serenity and security family hides but (like all the houses in this world) made of a dark side perversions, violence and unorthodox rituals unheard.


do not expect the usual meatloaf psicological-dramatic Hausu is anything but boring, all but seriously ... anything but movies.
Two hours of hallucinations, delusions, visual-sound, trash found worthy to be handed down to posterity (can not forget the head in the well or the piano cannibal) and so, so, I ask.
The weaving of plots and subplots is reason for being in the presence of disturbing (even for gattofili most hardened like me) a seraphic white Persian cat (in fact, white is for the Japanese synonymous with death) and sowing terror (and mewing) for the duration of the film. A work

strange, to be taken with too many expectations and not to be considered for what it is: a long video shot in the psychedelic '70s. Funny.

Rating: 6