GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

devilsreject85 This can be one of the most enjoyable movies ever if you don't take it seriously. It is a bit dated and the effects are lame, but it is so enjoyable. There are giant crabs that attack a girl. oh, and the crabs sing Japanese. It is amazingly bad. And the ending, which has been telegraphed throughout the entire film is hideously awesome. Predictable, but seeing the final fight will leave you rolling in your seat. Don't even give this film a chance and you will love it. Susan George is fun to watch and yes, she does appear naked. Her daughter isn't quite worth putting up with, but she does get attacked by giant crabs. They are the size of large cats. This is a 2, but I love it. As a movie, my God, but for entertainment, I give it a 7. Did I mention there are giant crabs?

Scarecrow-88 Just plain awful haunted house garbage has visiting American family dealing with possession in a Japanese teahouse.A disgruntled Samurai hacks up his adulterous wife and her lover with his sword after coming home to them in sexual embrace. Their bad karma keeps them in a ghostly form of limbo so they try to pit American husband Ted(Edward Albert), British wife Laura(Susan George)and their US American Ambassader pal Alex(Doug McClure)into an ugly re-staging of the events that has imprisoned them hoping to release the chains that bind them. The Japanese ghosts possess the three anytime they wish, often even causing mischief such as disrupting the water flow from the faucet, tossing a Noh mask from the wall, appearing in a bowl of soup, or becoming visible in the form of giant crabs! There's one hilarious scene where giant crabs chase Ted and Laura's daughter Amy(Amy Barrett)up a tree until she falls. Oh, and the scene where one of the ghosts causes Ted to splash a bowl of soup in Amy's face when she won't drink, is priceless. The final scene where possession causes Ted and Alex to duel in a sword fight and martial arts has to be seen to be believed. I especially giggled at the scene where Ted is chasing the female ghost around the room as she vanishes when he draws near..it's quite a cartoonish scene. Oh, and the female ghost somehow almost drowns Ted underwater! There's also a chuckle-inducing sequence where a monk comes to their home to exorcise the ghosts from it..the monk actually chases them from their abode!I don't know how the cast could keep a straight face in such mindless drivel. Embarrassing to ruin such exotic locations..the setting is indeed this film's only real benefit. George does shed her clothes..too bad that's the only positive thing she brings to this horrible exercise. The opening scene which yields the yuk-yuk premise is actually quite a stunning way to open a film..just too bad it opens this one.

MARIO GAUCI This could have been interesting – a Japan-set haunted house story from the viewpoint of a newly-installed American family – but falls flat due to an over-simplified treatment and the unsuitability of both cast and director.The film suffers from the same problem I often encounter with the popular modern renaissance of such native fare, i.e. the fact that the spirits demonstrate themselves to be evil for no real reason other than that they're expected to! Besides, it doesn't deliver much in the scares department – a giant crab attack is merely silly – as, generally, the ghosts inhabit a specific character and cause him or her to act in a totally uncharacteristic way, such as Susan George seducing diplomat/friend-of-the-family Doug McClure and Edward Albert force-feeding his daughter a bowl of soup! At one point, an old monk turns up at the house to warn Albert of the danger if they remain there – eventually, he's called upon to exorcise the premises. However, history is bound to repeat itself and tragedy is the only outcome of the tense situation duly created – leading to a violent yet unintentionally funny climax in which Albert and McClure, possessed by the spirits of their Japanese predecessors, engage in an impromptu karate duel to the death! At the end of the day, this emerges an innocuous time-waster – tolerable at just 88 minutes but, in no way, essential viewing.

jhs39 Dull haunted house thriller finds an American family moving into a 200 year old house in Japan where a violent murder suicide love triangle occurred. Novel setting is about the only element of interest in this very slow moving horror flick by the director of Motel Hell. The film generates zero suspense and is composed of somewhat choppy scenes that rarely seem to be leading anywhere overall. One obvious example is a fairly early scene where the male lead visits a temple after realizing that his house is haunted as the monk had earlier warned. The monk recounts the history of the house (which the viewer is already familiar with from the opening sequence) and then the film simply cuts away to something else. Earlier the monk had offered to help. Well, where is the help? The family continues to stay in the haunted house as things get worse and worse and no mention of the monk is made until nearly the very end when he turns up again to do what he should have done an hour earlier--try to drive the spirits out of the house, although by this time it's difficult for the viewers to care.There are some (probably) unintentional campy laughs in seeing the American actors at the end become possessed by the Japanese spirits and suddenly start doing bad martial arts, I say probably because the scene is more than a little reminiscent of the chainsaw duel from the same director's Motel Hell which was more obviously meant to be amusing, but on the whole this is a forgettable dud.