24 March 2005, by Webmaster
Herald rating: * * *
This Hollywood-starred, hometown-crewed remake of a Japanese horror movie could easily have been lost in translation. It’s a pleasant surprise. Well, an unpleasant surprise, perhaps, would be closer to the point.
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays an American care worker in Tokyo who visits a haunted house in the suburbs and then finds herself chased by evil spirits - a lad, Toshio (Yuya Ozeki), and his mother from hell, Kayako (Takako Fuji). These guys come out of the closet, (...)