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Audience Member Slow in spots, but consistently well directed. Eerie, with a surprising and awesome finale. The American adaptation really messed up the concept. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Yogen is one of the later stage J-horror films to come about after Ringu and Juon-initiated furore. Like them, it deals with a curse that needs investigating in order to (hopefully) beat it, but its never a cheaply disguised cash in as the One Missed Call movies were. In Yogen, the curse is centred on ghostly newspaper articles that foretell future tragedy, and pick one person as the conduit for such "premonitions". A professor loses his daughter in a tragic accident shortly after having it foretold by one of the aforementioned, and years later, along with his ex-wife, tries to unravel the mystery, and perhaps make the past right again, or lose himself to the curse trying. The film has some powerful, if not downright distressing dramatic points, but much of plot between those points develops much too slowly, something that is not helped by intensely morose performances. However, as with most J-horror, not everything will make sense... in a good way. That is after all part of the allure. Yogen in particular leads to a rather satisfying, mind-bending climax that may involve intriguing elements of time travel. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Spoilers sure is scary when it tells about your tragic future. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A tad bland, but looks great. The thing is, if you've seen a lot of modern Japanese horror, you've seen this. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member I was sceptical about this movie, having gradually become tired of the J-horror predictable format, but this broke rank a little. There are some genuinely moving moments and two very sympathetic leads. The scares are few and far between, but when they do come they are rather effective and it tends to be more about the overall atmosphere than individual shocks. Rather than the usual J-horror ending (it turns out to be a spooky girl who was bullied to death) there's a nice twist. Not the greatest movie of all time- perhaps diluted in its impact because of the constant drip of mediocre Japanese horror that we're presented with- but certainly one to watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member The Japanese simply know how to make better horror films, and surprisingly with less CGI. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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