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My husband and I thought it was absolute pants, we both enjoy horror and the story line was intriguing, but my goodness was it so badly done! It barely kept your attention even during the "intense" scenes, the characters and dialogue were appalling "hey we're hiding from a monster who is close by and will rip us apart so now's the time to start laughing and chatting" there is no trauma or stress particularly during the day where you would expect them to be somewhat traumatised from the night before, but nope just laughter and friendly bonding. By the end you are indifferent if the monster wins due to the amount of cliched moves and illogical decisions done by the characters who you don't care about due to their lack of character development and unrealistic portrayal of 6 teens stuck in an endless loop of being killed.

As this Japanese horror film begins a young girl is murdered. Decades later school girl Asuka hears the voice of the dead girl; she asks that the eight parts of her dismembered body be found. They are all on the grounds of the school Asuka attends. That night she, and five other students suddenly find themselves back in the school. A monster known to them as 'The Red Person' starts killing them in gory ways. When they wake up it is the previous morning. It soon becomes obvious that they are caught in a time loop. Each night they reappear in school and look for the body parts to return to a coffin in the school's chapel. Each day they become closer friends, bonded by the events of the night before and s desire to solve the mystery and end the cycle.

I thought this film opened fairly well with plenty of gore and an interesting set up. Unfortunately the sense of danger felt somewhat reduced when the time loop restarted and we learn that those who died have all returned and they seemed less traumatised than one might expect. Thankfully the plot manages to bring the sense of danger back later on. I wasn't surprised to learn that it was based on a manga as it reminded me somewhat of anime like 'Another', Angel Beats' and to a lesser extent 'Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'. The acting is solid enough and the school at night creates a suitably ominous atmosphere. Overall I'd say this is far from being a classic J-horror but it still manages to entertain so is worth a watch.

These comments are based on watching the film in Japanese with English subtitles.

There's one thing i do like and that's Japanese horror. And there's one thing i don't like and that's typical, mushy, over the top silly, emotional, irrational, theatrical Japanese teen drama. And Re/Member is the latter, hidden behind a horror cover.

In the night time they're chased and killed by a horrific creature and in the daytime they're laughing over sundaes, squirting water guns on the beach and obsess over friendship and love interests, accompanied by cheerful J-Pop.

So do i really need to explain what these dramatic shifts of tone does to the emergency and horror of that "little problem" they're stuck in a'la Groundhog Day? Well, it gets eradicated and pointless.

I will keep this review short, so i won't go into all the illogical and dumb things in this movie. But if you do like what i don't like, then this movie might be for you. If you like horror or good horror, then stay away.

After what seems to be a normal day, a group of students at a Japanese high school find themselves suddenly trapped in a never-ending time-loop by a malicious ghost intent on tormenting them and must find the cause of the curse that's affecting them to break the deadly chain of events.

On the whole, this one has quite a lot to like about it. Among the more likable facets present is the fine storyline that manages to bring about a genuinely terrifying concept. The main point of the film is the engrossing game that's at the center of everything which has a fun urban legend idea taken to a grand extreme. With the whole thing starting with the ghost appearing to the main girl and urging her into finding the various body parts of her dismembered corpse scattered around the school, things take a pretty chilling turn quite quickly. This is only enhanced by the means through which the group goes about getting inducted into the game of following through on the quest within the darkened school which easily manages to fall under the type of easily-digestible urban legend rather nicely. The means through which they find themselves stuck in a time loop as a consequence makes for a fine time as well and gives this a solid bit of tension to ensure the game is played. With this setup in place, this one manages to come off rather nicely with its ghostly encounters. The initial sight of the ghost is genuinely terrifying with the scarred face, blood-covered appearance, and association with the creepy doll leading to a fantastic first appearance in the prologue that sets everything in motion. The later scenes with the massive figure towering over the group while hunting them down through the school grounds and hallways is just as much fun with the incorporation of group battles against the massive being which signals the start of a secondary twist in the storyline that's introduced naturally while adding a nice bit of spice to everything. This adds plenty of frenetic action in the second half where the battle to stop the ghost takes place alongside the intriguing means of finally enacting the means of stopping the curse as well as the wholly effective practical effects for the main ghost-form shown here. These factors manage to provide a lot to enjoy here. There are some flaws with the film that hold it down. One of the bigger detriments is the highly underwhelming pacing that highlights a slew of teen-friendly content at the expense of genre thrills. With the group well-aware of the game to be played, a run-through of the body-finding tactics in the hallways is soaked up as a music video montage taking each encounter with the ghost as a single split-screen shot at once while an obnoxious pop song plays over it. This completely destroys any and all attempts at scares despite the horrific ways the ghost destroys the group and mutilates their bodies during the sequence. Other scenes like the group hanging out in the classroom laughing about dying the previous night or enjoying a beach party also manage the same feat of appealing to the teen crowd while dragging the tempo down and lacking in genre thrills. The last flaw here is the generally tame tone featured, with very little on-screen blood or gore and a reliance on cheap jump-scares which continue the teen feel and hold this one back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Sitting down to watch the 2022 Japanese horror movie "Re/Member" here in 2023, I did so without ever having heard about the movie. But the Japanese cinema have a long track record of making enjoyable and entertaining horror movies, so I figured that I would give it a go.

Writers Harumi Doki, Katsutoshi Murase and Welzard put together a fair enough script and storyline for director Eiichirô Hasumi to bring to the screen. The movie was watchable and entertaining for what it was, but it wasn't a groundbreaking story. And what really made the movie all the more watchable was the ferocity of the red creature. It is rare that you get to see that kind of rage and malevolence from creatures in movies, so that was quite enjoyable.

The acting performances in the movie were fair. I wasn't familiar with a single actress or actor on the cast list, but they put on good performances.

Visually then "Re/Member" was fairly okay. The special effects were good enough for the movie, but hardly outstanding. But it was refreshing to have a Japanese 'ghost' movie without the traditional girl in white dress with long, black hair covering the face.

Something did puzzle me, though, as it was funny how there happened to be a coffin with the exact beveled shape of the corpse of the little girl whose body parts the students were searching for. It just made so little sense.

"Re/Member" was watchable for what it was, and it is suitable for a single viewing. However, there just wasn't sufficient contents to the storyline to support more than a single viewing.

My rating of "Re/Member" lands on a five out of ten stars.

The premise wasn't anything new, but I wasn't looking for any ground breaking originality. It had a story, so simply tell it in an interesting and entertaining way, and I would've been happy. And, there were definitely good bits to it! So, it could have easily been a fine, enjoyable horror flick, but certain unnecessities like having an internal "I've had enough, so I'm gonna be courageous, ganbarimasu" emotion doesn't just give you an extra boost of power/energy, it turns you into a superhero, and it allows you to overcome any obstacle infront of you. Yes, I've heard of adrenaline, and it shouldn't take a long "John Snow standing in the battlefield moment to doubt yourself, then suddenly thinking of your friends generate the super soldier serum within you" to kick in.

Okay first things first, anyone who is rating this above a four has never really watched horror films and not watched eastern horror films.

This was one of the worst from the categories from above.

Firstly it didn't know what it wanted to be, did this movie want to be a horror film, did it want to be a Japanese rom com, a comedy or what? You will leave this film as confused as I did.

There was a bit of blood in the killing scenes, which was fine but in between the killings and the not so horror scenes there were scenes of comedy and rom com style film.

I have given this film a two star rating, that is being generous by the way.

Do yourself a favour, keep away from this film.

Good, but most of the watch time I feel like my family was just yelling at the girl to HURRY. When you're handed something important as another character sacrifices themselves for it, you don't just stand there, watching for them to die! You be useful and RUN.

At the start, some of the violence felt a little comical to me. It slowly got a little more serious, but I didn't feel scared at all during this, neither did my 10-year-old sister.

However, it didn't quite make sense for the girl to be evil, because they were helping her find her body. Didn't she want to be found? I thought that was the whole point of the body find thing...

While this isn't the best movie ever, it was entertaining.

After watching many Japanese horror films, I was hoping for better. If not for the childish and very unnecessary teen scenes, this movie would have been much better. This movie should have stuck to its plot line and stayed away from the random scenes. These scenes worked against the darkness of the movie and added a lighter element that totally made this movie feel cheap. This could have been so much better. I love Japanese horror movies and I was hoping to love this one too, but for me, Re/Member just fell short of what I have come to love about Japanese horror. With all that said, it was not horrible.

RATED 4/10 Language: Japanese Source: Netflix

The story is good, the premise is perfect for entertainer but they miserably failed in all aspects. From the beginning to end everything is not in par. Only very few seconds of good moments in the movie... remaining all are not worthy

First from the ghost to the monster, it looks so cheap and not at all scary. The sound effect also not helping to the flow. It just punctures your ear. I felt like I am watching 2.30 hrs movie.

Definitely this is not worth for the time spend.

--repeating again for 600 char limit Definitely this is not worth for the time spend.

30 years ago an 8 year old girl was brutally murdered by a serial killer and dismembered, her body parts were never found. In the current period, 6 teens are caught in a time loop where they go through the same day while have the same dream in the night. Only thing is in their dream, they are attacked and killed by a demonic girl. Their task to get out of this loop is to find all the body parts of the dead girl before they are killed off permanently.

A premise like this could've worked better considering a solid demon (the one without eyes was perfect while the transformed creature was terrifying too) was wrecking havoc. But sadly, the film begins haphazardly and doesn't even spend time introducing / establishing the 6 teens characters. None of them had any unique personality, a decent backstory and absolute no reason why anybody should back them up. It felt superficial everytime the day got reset because I could hardly care for any of them dying or even surviving.

Even the drama that unfolds where these 6 teens, classmates but not friends get together to be a team, even friends and how they form a bond had zero emotions due to lack of decent characterization. The attacks and kills were good, the scary moments too but it soon became repetitive. Also the teens kept finding the body parts very easily, which again was too bland. There's a librarian who is also supposed to be a survivor of this game from the past but that is just passed off as an information. The film has several of such glaring flaws which completely underwhelm the horror parts.

Re/Member was more like I couldn't care any lesser. Easily a forgettable film.

RE/MEMBER (2022) is a new Japanese horror film streaming on Netflix. It's essentially Japan's answer to HAPPY DEATH DAY in that it tells the story of six high school students who find themselves forced to relive the same day over and over again after they're repeatedly killed by a marauding ghost girl every night. They realise that they're playing a macabre game in which they have to reassemble a dismembered corpse before time runs out...

There's not much sense or explanation behind this one but I prefer that sometimes. The performances are committed and there's a wealth of gore with bodies being torn asunder and the like. The novelty of the plot keeps viewer involvement high and in the second half this transforms into a monster movie and becomes even more entertaining. The SFX aren't always 100% convincing but they're 100% practical which is always a delight for me.

There is nothing here, just a group of school teenagers traped in a temporal looping repeating the same day and get killed at night by a creature who came from nowhere to chase them while they search for parts of a body hidden at school biulding.

Does this make sense? No, it doesn't.

All of them are really uninsteresting and you don't care if someone is bleeding or cut in pieces.

Maybe there is a message about loniness while at school classes. The group once were stranges, after some nights they became friends. Oh, so sweet!

Final is a very bad happy end and you will be sleeping or just forgetting this movie.