Review of Noroi

Noroi (2005)
6/10
Eerie
7 October 2014
Masafumi Kobayashi (Jin Muraki) is a journalist who specializes in paranormal activities and tries to capture all of his investigations on videotape. One particular case involves several different people with psychic abilities which seem to be connected. Unfortunately, the main factor that seems to connect them is that all of those involved in this particular case end up either dead or missing. Now, although the "found footage" style used for this movie is hardly unique, what sets it apart from films like "The Blair Witch Project" was the use of English subtitles which tended to compensate for the problem of muffled sounds caused by rapid movement that often make films of this type difficult to understand. Additionally, the Japanese setting also lent its own special type of atmosphere. Likewise, while the actors weren't that impressive their performances were adequate enough for the director (Kôji Shiraishi) to create a final product which had an eerie enough feel to it to be at least moderately frightening. Accordingly, I rate this movie as slightly above average.
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