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chakushin ari
Today we went to see the new Miike Takashi movie, chakushin ari (着信アリ, "You've had a call"). It's an horror movie that's a flagrant descendant of Ring, actually the story is almost same except that the elements have been changed a bit.
The fear element is now about receiving a strange message on your mobile phone's... a recording of your own voice, recorded at the moment you will die, a day or two later.
Furthermore, the message's date/time isn't the time at which your phone rang, but the time reflecting the message's creepy content, telling you exactly at which time you will die.
I found this new intrigue interesting, and the film sure has a lot of suspenseful scary scenes that make it worth it. However, I found it a bit predictable, perhaps because of its obvious predecessor.
I don't think I'll become as paranoid about messages on my keitai as I was of TVs after seeing Ring, now that movie had really given me the scares.
Posted on January 18, 2004 at 22:34 | Tweet
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