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What is it with pregnant women being in horror movies? In foreign horror
movies, no less. American horror movies would shy away from daring to
show a pregnant woman in peril or even hinting at it like this movie
does. This movie hints at a lot of horrible things. Women are dying in
very supernatural ways after they visit a certain website (no, this
isn't feardotcom, don't worry). The dead bodies of these women give the
impression that they were pregnant, though their families and friends
insist that none of them were pregnant. It's up to a detective and a
female reporter to find out the truth, which involves a pregnant woman
who died horribly and left behind a creepy painting and a curse. Lots of
ghostly mayhem ensues. Several creepy images appear throughout the
movie, and they made my heart pound.
Too bad it feels like this movie took a lot of better Asian ghost
movies, threw them in a blender, and plastered the result on film.
The filmmakers here don't seem to realize that the REASON these
images were creepy in the other movies is because they had a story
and a plot to back them up. Devoid of those things, they're nothing
but images. Creepy little girls wandering around can be scary, but
not if they have no connection to what's going on, or if their
connection isn't explained. Where did the little girl come from? Did
the woman give birth to a ghost? If so, did every one of the women
who died give birth to the same ghost or are there lots of little
ghost girls running around, and if so, why did we only see one?
As you can probably tell, this movie
frustrated me to no end. First of all, the characters make huge
leaps of logic. Five minutes into the movie one character says
"these women died after visiting this website." How did that come up
in the investigation? Did every one of the women's friends and
family interviewed volunteer this information? How did the families
and friends find out in the first place? Secondly, the characters
make some of the dumbest moves I've seen in awhile. If you found out
that every woman who visits a certain website dies 15 days later,
would you visit the website? Not to mention the question of how they
found out that it was 15 days later that the women died in the first
place. How did people know the exact date of when the women visited
the website? Did they memorize the date?
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I don't wander around
memorizing the dates my friends and family click on
certain websites. That's just ridiculous. It's almost as
if the filmmakers were trying to rip off feardotcom.
Someone should tell them that when you want to rip off a
movie, rip off a good one. Though I appreciate the idea
that someone wanted to rip off feardotcom, which in
itself was very derivative, lifting all of its scary
images from better movies, this movie sucks all the fun
out of the idea by being just as terrible as feardotcom. |
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Now now, calm down and
stop yelling at me. I know this movie didn't REALLY rip off
feardotcom, I'm just saying this "killer website" idea isn't working
for me. It's not a bad idea, and it would be nice if someone would
take the idea and make a good movie with it, but no one has; instead
we get this dreck which isn't any better than the dreck that
resulted the last time someone tried to make this idea into a movie.
I love Asian horror movies. The idea of curses and spiraling evil
from which there is no escape get under my skin and haunt my dreams,
and I avoid watching these movies before going to sleep for that
very reason. For an Asian horror movie NOT to scare me, that movie
has to be inept in every way, and this movie is. It doesn't even
make any sense. Aside from
the problems mentioned with the assertion that every woman dies 15
days after visiting this website, the reason for the deaths is never
made clear. Is the pregnant ghost killing the women? Is the pregnant
women's ghost child killing the women? Why would you move into an
apartment where a dead ghost woman lived when you knew that you only
had 15 days to live after you viewed her website? These dumb
character moves don't even service the plot, they seem to be in the
movie just to pad the running time, since there really is no plot
and nothing makes sense. I wanted to like this movie, but it didn't
give me much of a choice in the matter.
Every image in this movie is taken from other, better movies. Watch one
of those instead.
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