The Complex
Written by Junya Kato and Ryûta Miyake
Directed by Hideo Nakata
Japan, 2013
After several recent ventures into other genres with rather mixed results, The Complex marks Hideo Nakata’s return to what he is best known for: supernatural horror. The director who helped put Japanese horror on the map with his groundbreaking Ringu (1998) and its sequel the following year, Ringu 2 (1999), has produced some of his finest work here, with The Ring Two (2005) perhaps serving as an exception to this rule. Whilst The Complex is not without its merits, Nakata’s latest outing falls considerably short of the reinvention that J-horror has been crying out for.
Similarly to Dark Water (2002), the film begins as a modern take on the haunted house story, as Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) moves in to an apartment where she starts witnessing increasingly strange occurrences. Whilst it starts rather predictably, thankfully the plot twist around...
Written by Junya Kato and Ryûta Miyake
Directed by Hideo Nakata
Japan, 2013
After several recent ventures into other genres with rather mixed results, The Complex marks Hideo Nakata’s return to what he is best known for: supernatural horror. The director who helped put Japanese horror on the map with his groundbreaking Ringu (1998) and its sequel the following year, Ringu 2 (1999), has produced some of his finest work here, with The Ring Two (2005) perhaps serving as an exception to this rule. Whilst The Complex is not without its merits, Nakata’s latest outing falls considerably short of the reinvention that J-horror has been crying out for.
Similarly to Dark Water (2002), the film begins as a modern take on the haunted house story, as Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) moves in to an apartment where she starts witnessing increasingly strange occurrences. Whilst it starts rather predictably, thankfully the plot twist around...
- 6/29/2013
- by Lewis Hurt
- SoundOnSight
Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Masanobu Katsumura | Written by Junya Kato, Ryûta Miyake | Directed by Hideo Nakata
Review by Andrew MacArthur of Cinehouse
We should know better than to get excited when a once great horror director makes a back to basics comeback. It’s happened with John Carpenter (The Ward), George A. Romero (Survival of the Dead), Wes Craven (My Soul to Take), and Dario Argento (Dracula 3D), and now it is the turn of Japan’s own Hideo Nakata – the man behind Dark Water and Ringu. In a miraculous feat Nakata has managed to make a film worse than all those aforementioned combined.
The Complex follows a young nursing student (Maeda) who moves with her family into a derelict apartment block, which her friends claim is haunted. After being disturbed by eerie noises coming from her neighbour’s apartment it seems these claims may have some truth.
Nakata...
Review by Andrew MacArthur of Cinehouse
We should know better than to get excited when a once great horror director makes a back to basics comeback. It’s happened with John Carpenter (The Ward), George A. Romero (Survival of the Dead), Wes Craven (My Soul to Take), and Dario Argento (Dracula 3D), and now it is the turn of Japan’s own Hideo Nakata – the man behind Dark Water and Ringu. In a miraculous feat Nakata has managed to make a film worse than all those aforementioned combined.
The Complex follows a young nursing student (Maeda) who moves with her family into a derelict apartment block, which her friends claim is haunted. After being disturbed by eerie noises coming from her neighbour’s apartment it seems these claims may have some truth.
Nakata...
- 6/25/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Hideo Nakata‘s latest horror The Complex (aka Kuroyuri Danchi) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this January and is set to hit Japanese theaters this May. Still nothing about the official release date here, but at least we have something great to share with you today! The full trailer and two new posters for the whole thing have arrived & I’m sure you’re going to enjoy! Nakata directed The Complex from a script written by Junya Kato and Ryuta Miyake and the movie revolves around a nursing student Asuka who moves into an apartment complex with her family. But, as usual, something strange happens....
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- 4/1/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
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