Youtube Festival / Reincarnation

Stefan Nutz nuzumaki
Sun Nov 19 17:42:28 EST 2006


Interesting.
Rinne has already been released in the UK and in HK on DVD.
I actually didn't read any reviews, because i was afraid it's Shimizu's
20th version of  "Ju-on".

 Stefan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M Arnold" <ma_iku at hotmail.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Youtube Festival / Reincarnation


> From: "Stefan Nutz" <nuzumaki at gmx.net>
>>Here's a subbed exclusive clip of Kurosawa's upcoming "Sakebi" 
>>(Retribution).
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRHQUJ7u1o
>
> The second half of the clip looks very familiar. . .
>
> In other news, there's a horror movie "festival" playing at several 
> hundred theaters around the U.S. right now. 
> (http://www.horrorfestonline.com/). The eight films in the festival are 
> playing in rotation this weekend only (Nov. 17-19). The series is being 
> advertised as a group of movies that were "never seen by the public" until 
> now because their content was too graphic and disturbing (yeah, right--at 
> least two of them are already out on DVD). I noticed that Shimizu 
> Takashi's 2005 film, Reincarnation (Rinne) was one of the selections, so I 
> ran out to see it on Friday afternoon. I'm mentioning it here because 
> Kurosawa Kiyoshi has a cameo as a college instructor in one scene.
>
> Maybe it's all the Hitchcock theory I've been reading recently (or maybe I 
> was just braindead after a busy week), but I thought Rinne was very 
> interesting. The story is about a murder that happened 35 years ago when a 
> husband and father of two killed his family and all of the people staying 
> in a rural hotel (ala The Shining). A movie director in 2005 Japan decides 
> to make a film about the killing, and during the casting process the lead 
> actresses-to-be starts having hallucinations with little girls running 
> around and nightmares about being in the hotel during the murders. She 
> starts to think she's the reincarnation of the killer's daughter, and as 
> the filming starts and her haunting continues she becomes convinced that 
> she's going to be murdered by the father's ghost (whose spirit is most 
> likely inhabiting the director). There's a nice twist at the end though. 
> When the heroine wakes up from one of her nightmares, she discovers an 8mm 
> camera left behind by the father. She hands the camera to her manager, who 
> develops and watches the film. (Some of the footage reminded me of Stanley 
> Kubrick's home movies in "A Life in Pictures.") Soon enough he realizes 
> that the father even filmed his killing spree (ala Peeping Tom?), camera 
> in one hand, knife in the other. Then we get to see what 'really' happened 
> . . .
>
> Michael Arnold 





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