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Ox-Head Village

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Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumors circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth.
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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke Psychocinematography Ox-Head Village is a solid horror-movie that pleasantly utilizes a sense mystery to engage the spectator and fluidly integrated unsettling imagery to put the spectator ill at ease and even scared... Jun 15, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Hamilton D Um dos piores filmes que já vi na vida, né possível Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/24 Full Review Gabriel S Ox-head Village, also known as Ushikubi Village, fails because it doesn't know how to wrap up its story and because of a lack of character development. The story focuses on Kanon, a high school girl who lives with her father. One day, Ren, her friend, shows to Kanon a video where one of the girls is identical to her, basically her twin sister. This fact makes Kanon decide to look for this girl. Up to this point, we already know that evil spirits are tormenting Kanon. We are able to notice the lack of character development since the inciting incident. There is no apparent reason for Kanon to decide to search for the girl, other than the fact that they are identical. The girl in the video, Shion, is missing; If you're going to search for a missing girl, the first thing you'd probably try to check is the local authorities, no? Of course not! Kanon and Ren decide to visit the haunted hotel where Shion disappeared because, well, why not? Going back to this review's reasoning, Kanon wants to find out Shion just to know why they look so similar? That seems to me to be a weak motive. As the story progresses, we realize that there is a main motive behind this frantic search, a stronger motive, but one that the film does not know how to properly explore. The holes in character development leave them all feeling unrealistic and contrived. All the backstory about the Oxhead is expendable. The film uses this folklore to try to create a "gotcha!" moment that doesn't work. When the story reveals to us the truth about the deaths, nothing makes sense. All this confusion culminates in the denouement, a meaningless denouement. The characters we have followed so far are literally thrown into the final scenario, to face the beast, so that we have the final confrontation with a nonsensical antagonist that has no apparent motives other than to be evil simply for the sake of it. In a ridiculous ending scene, the story bids farewell with the usual horror movie cliché. I don't recommend this movie on any possible hypotheses. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumors circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth.
Director
Takashi Shimizu
Producer
Harue Miyake
Screenwriter
Takashi Shimizu, Daisuke Hosaka
Production Co
Toei, Asmik Ace Entertainment, Toei Video Company
Genre
Horror
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 55m
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