Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Leofwine_draca THE TAG-ALONG is a popular Taiwanese horror film that takes the form of a ghost story heavily indebted to the likes of RING and THE GRUDGE. Sadly, those Japanese classics were far more interesting than this lacklustre, by-the-numbers outing which is content to copy and imitate rather than innovate. The story's background - about a little girl in red whose appearance foreshadows disaster - is by far the most interesting thing about the production, given that it's based on a true story. Sadly, the film has a cheap, blue-tinted digital look and actors giving indifferent performances throughout. It becomes more and more reliant on ridiculously cheesy CGI ghosts as it goes on, and the one or two genuine scares are borrowed from better fare.

Michael Ledo First hour of Plot, expansion of story line at Amazon US.This is a Taiwanese film with English subtitles. The film initially centers on Ho Chih Wei, a young man who lives with his grandma and sells real estate. He has a number of issues. His girlfriend of 5 years doesn't want to marry him. Aunt Shui has gone missing. Grandma has wandered off. A girl in a red dress from the mountains has been coming to the city and taking souls. And oh yes, he develops that possession thing and goes missing as the film now shifts gears into a real horror film and centers on the girlfriend Shen Yi-Chen. She gathers up a posse to go to the mountains. At an hour into the film it gets good as she strolls through the woods.This was an okay horror film similar to Japanese horror films. There is an anti-abortion theme, perhaps aimed at the mainland. Not a good film for any woman who has recently had an abortion.Guide: F-word (I can now swear in Mandarin, should prove interesting next time I order Chinese.) . No sex or nudity.

Paul Magne Haakonsen When I found "The Tag-Along" I was quite interested in getting a chance to watch it and did rush at the chance to do so. I must admit that I did have some expectations to the movie.However, these expectations were not really met. And the movie just never really managed to impress me. Sure, it was an entertaining enough movie for what it turned out to be. But the movie just failed to be scary, or actually be interesting enough to make a lasting mark. Or perhaps I am just too hardened and seasoned of a decades of watching horror movies...Regardless, this movie just wasn't particularly scary, and I doubt that even to Asians this is not overly scary. Unless you live in Taiwan, perhaps, and is familiar with the urban legend of the little girl in the red dress.It should be said that the acting in the movie was quite good, and it was nice to see new faces on the screen. The actors and actresses were actually doing quite good jobs with their given roles and characters, just a shame that they had only so much to work with in terms of script and story.There were very little special effects in the movie, and that is perhaps also a major part of why the movie just failed to latch on and hang on. It was a shame, because effects are usually crucial to horror movies, and very few of them manage to pull off having little or no special effects whatsoever. "The Tag-Along" failed at its attempt with whatever little special effects were present.I managed to sit through the entire movie, because I wanted to see it to the end. And I just learned now that there is a sequel to "The Tag-Along" here in 2017. I can't really claim that such news are overly thrilling, since the first movie wasn't particular much of an outstanding movie in any way.For an Asian horror movie, then "The Tag-Along" differentiates itself from the mainstream horror movies that is often seen in the Asian horror genre. However, it just wasn't unique enough to stand on its own and be particularly impressive. This wasn't a bad movie either, don't get me wrong, and it is actually watchable for sure.The end result of how this movie turned out was, for me at least, mediocre, and I am rating the movie a mere 5 out of 10 stars.

HorrorOverEverything I don't watch a lot of Asian horror films, mainly because I have never really been much of a fan of paranormal movies, and for the most part Asian horror films tend to focus on paranormal type things (mostly scary little kid ghosts). But the other night I was bored and in the mood for a horror film, I decided to not be picky at all and basically just randomly pick one of the newer releases from the genre. I stumbled onto a Taiwanese film called "The Tag Along" and honestly I am glad I did.The film follows Zhi-wei He, a young adult who lives a fairly busy life trying to juggle his job, his girlfriend, and spending time with his grandmother who lives with him. Zhi-wei He's life is turned upside down when a little ghost girl in a red dress shows up and takes his grandmother away. From there things get pretty wild as the little ghost girl makes multiple appearances to terrorize Zhi-wei and the other people in his life.Early on "The Tag Along" does a lot of things right, the characters are interesting and the story is set up well, plus there are a lot of very well done subtle scare scenes that did a good job of catching me off guard. Unfortunately as the film progresses it becomes more and more dependent on CGI and less on practical scares. At this point it was still entertaining, however the CGI caused the film to lose a lot of it's creepiness. There are actually quite a few scenes that had me giggling a bit due to the goofy effects.I liked "The Tag Along", overall it was a pretty fun ghost story that was clever at times and didn't rely too much on the normal Ghost Movie clichés (even though there are quite a few present here). Without the CGI I feel like this could have been a lot better, but even with it the film is still entertaining and worth checking out.6/10