Rinne (2005)

Title: Rinne / Reincarnation

Director: Takashi Shimizu

So, this is a pretty cool Japanese horror movie about a girl cast as the main character in a film based on a real-life serial killer’s rampage through a hotel. It’s a smart movie by the director of Ju-on and the Grudge, and one of a number of the horror series “Films to Die For.” Shimizu says, in the DVD extra interview he gives, that he thinks of Japanese horror as more psychological than American horror. Whether or not that is true, Rinne is a psychological film, dealing (obviously) with the subject of reincarnation. Several characters in the film are reincarnations of victims from the slaughter, but the real question is: Who is whose reincarnation?

 

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