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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
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 2/4 |
It neither musters the campy horror of Ju-on nor follows through on its art-house potential. Full Review |
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It is far from a completely successful experiment, but it does create something with a unique enough identity to be worth exploring. Full Review |
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 3.5/5 |
As creepy as it is frustrating. Full Review |
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C- |
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. Full Review |
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[An] atmospheric, hypnotic digital video wonder. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Any profound statement that Shimizu is making gets lost in translation, if it was ever there in the first place. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The gloppy sound effects are so over-the-top, they invite laughter, and the bloodsucking scenes are allowed to become absurdly repetitious. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
It's actually a pretty lousy thriller. Full Review |
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B+ |
It's not really scary, but it reaches a level of insanity so unhinged and dispassionately wretched that it defies description. Full Review |
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Shimizu 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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Shimizu doesn't quite achieve the ostensible goal of Marebito's verite style and purposefully low-tech execution: to pervert our sense of what is real. Full Review |
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Marebito is a disturbing supernatural drama that leaves a sour taste in the mouth. Full Review |
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By 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. Full Review |
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The year's least frightening horror film. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Click to read the article Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Marebito is no conventional vampire movie but a speculation into the notion that ancient people could sense alien beings in their midst. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
The look of the film, and the gore, meld into the real and unreal of this hero's journey. But the journey is muddled, and at times unintentionally funny. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
For Japanese horror aficionados only, and even they are likely to be underwhelmed by this stew of half-baked ideas and creepy sensations.
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