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Those of you who need a fix of freshly imported Japanese horror are advised to stop reading and head right now to the Brattle, where Takashi Shimizu’s ’’Marebito" opens today.
Good. Now that they’re gone: It’s actually a pretty lousy thriller. Shimizu is coasting on his good name. He’s the man who brought us two ’’Ju-on" movies and ’’The Grudge," a chill-less American version of ’’Ju-on" that starred a nearly comatose Sarah Michelle Gellar but made a killing at the box office nonetheless. (...)