SCARY TRUE STORIES-10 HAUNTING TALES-JAPANESE UNDERGROUND (DVD)

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In the early 1990s, film director Norio Tsuruta (Premonition, Ring 0: Birthday) and screenwriter Chiaki Konaka (Marebito) collaborated on a three-part series of television programs based on actual paranormal events. Collectively known as Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi (Scary True Stories), it was an immediate hit. Not only did it mark Norio Tsuruta's directorial debut, it also became a pioneering work which lit the flame of the Japanese horror boom, shedding its influence on such films as Ringu, Ju-On: The Grudge, and Pulse. Set in contemporary Japan and highlighted by creepy visuals and sound effects, these chilling dramatizations of supernatural horror are presented for the first time in the U.S. as a complete edition.

• Actors: Daisuke Ban, Akane Aizawa, Ryuushi Mizukami, Yumi Goto, Rie Kondoh
• Director: Norio Tsuruta
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• ISBN: 0788607073
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Language (Original Language): Japanese
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2005-11-22
• Running Time: 138 minutes

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Reviewed on 2006-08-08 Tame, But Enjoyable If you are looking to be scared out of your wits, this is not going to do it. Mentioning or comparing those two movies with this production is false advertising. These stories are allegedly true, but fall flat with cheesy special effects (the light emanating from a ghost is just a spotlight chasing people around) and tame plotlines. Not to mention every story is told by a girl, usually junior high age. Males exist only in supporting roles in two tales. The stories are more relaxing than anything else. The slight spookiness here is best served as an appetizer for a truly terrifying film.

Reviewed on 2005-12-29 don't spend time or money ! (...). don't get me wrong i really liked the ring and the grudge but this is horrible. there is 10 "scary" stories on this dvd and not a single one is frightening. they're all cheesy as hell and most aren't even really about scaring anyone. example; one of the first ones is supposed to be about a female swimmer who encounters one of these "spirits". thinking it's her friends trying to scare her ,when she's in the locker room, she confronts the ghost of a dead girl that died in the school. the ghost is in a bathroom stall and ends up trying to pull her over the top of the stall door. the girl breaks free and runs to the exit trying to escape as the ghost is hot on her trail. sounds pretty scary right. wrong, you never see the ghost, except for a painted white hand, and nothing happens to the girl, besides a little mark on her wrist. this dvd is terrible and if you like to be frightened beyond all belief i'd say look somewhere else.

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