It's just a little too interesting for its own good, a fascinating setup that leads to multiple conclusions -- none of them satisfying.
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12/09/05
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Marebito (2004)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:12
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: The scares are lacking in this J-horror flick, and the plot soon turns half-baked.
Theatrical Release:Dec 9, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Japanese director Takashi Shimizu (JU-ON) presents another slice of atmospheric J-horror with his gory frightfest MAREBITO. In an inspired bit of casting, real-life director Shinya Tsukamoto... [More]
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Reviews for Marebito
As creepy as it is frustrating.
05/22/07
[An] atmospheric, hypnotic digital video wonder.
03/16/06
Marebito is no conventional vampire movie but a speculation into the notion that ancient people could sense alien beings in their midst.
12/09/05
Top CriticShimizu has done what compatriots such as Hideo Nakata have not yet managed to do: make a contemporary Japanese horror movie that has some new ideas in it.
01/26/06
Shot on digital video as murky as Masuoka's imagination, its creeping sense of dank dread is as slow to build as it is hard to shake.
12/09/05
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12/11/05
It's not really scary, but it reaches a level of insanity so unhinged and dispassionately wretched that it defies description.
02/02/06
Dreamy and atmospheric, Marebito is a better film than Ju-On: The Grudge.
12/06/05
And if the trip doesn't have the clear-cut directions of a Hollywood film, it has all the ideas -- and cold, unsettling flights of fantasy -- of a nightmare, where faceless people look and look and look, but never see.
12/09/05
Top CriticPlot specifics are so muddy that part of the fun is getting lost in the narrative red herrings.
12/08/05
An outrageous horror flick from Japan.
12/09/05
For Japanese horror aficionados only, and even they are likely to be underwhelmed by this stew of half-baked ideas and creepy sensations.
12/09/05
Top CriticBy the end, the story's ambiguities begin to cancel each other out, leaving us with no good readings rather than a multitude of valid ones.
12/15/05
The year's least frightening horror film.
12/12/05
It drops names such as Madame Blavatsky for gravitas, but has as little to do with theosophy as a Westerner has to do with chopsticks.
02/20/07
Marebito feels like it's twice as long as it should be. It feels like an episode of a horror anthology show, stuffed to make it feature length.
12/09/05
What begins as a smart J-horror update of Blowup quickly turns into a sick joke.
11/06/05
Marebito never gives us what it promised: a glorious, totally new sense of horror.
12/09/05
Top CriticMarebito, a piece of soft-core trash disguised as pop art from director Takashi Shimizu, marks a new low in the genre.
12/08/05
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