Title: Premonition
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: Probably not, no.
Introduction: I got this DVD from Netflix because it’s part of a J-Horror Theater series and also because there is a U.S. remake of it I’ve never seen because I hate Sandra Bullock.
Location: All over Japan, so they had a budget.
Plot: A man reads about an accident in a newspaper that says his daughter dies right before it happens. The newspaper continues to stalk this guy, predicting death for people he knows, but he can’t interfere and mess up the order of things or death finds someone else or finds another way. It becomes quite an elaborate plot with lots of spinning that you’re just waiting on the edge of your seat to see how it will all play out.
Acting: I was reading subtitles, but I totally bought into all of it.
Production: It looks like a recent movie from theaters, yeah, it’s good.
Sex/Nudity: None.
Special Effects: This movie isn’t really heavy on the blood, but a lady gets run over by a truck and that looks pretty realistic.
Overall Verdict: This is actually a really great movie. It’s not ghosts and vampires scary, or slasher movie-like scary, but it’s suspenseful. Still, it doesn’t give me much hope for the American version of it. You should watch this and ignore the U.S. version—that’s my prediction already.
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