Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS Digital Surround, Stereo
Video Format: Widescreen for 16:9 TVs
Languages: Mandarin, Japanese
Subtitles: English, Chinese
Region Code: 3
Year Made: 2001
Running Time: 85
Modern film with good use of digital camera. The feel of the movie is really that of the 21th century, pushing the envelope with a vivid, in-your-face, yet artsy imagery. The hand-held video-camera goes way beyond "The Blairwitch Project" with a twisted and most effective use of colors to give a surreal atmosphere to the creepy tale. Poignant futuristic images you'll never forget. It must be especially impressed by the bathroom floor-height angles that are so well orchestrated that they would give Hitchcook and Zemeckis a good run for their money in terms of suspense. Yes, there is still something new to do in this over-used "water running" room, where you are literally naked with nothing but skin and your fears. But that is exactly what this film is: NEW. From the use of computers to the rewinding of a scene just played, this movie screams Hi-Tech.
So besides the lavish package, the next question is: what's up with the content? Well, it is still a horror movie. So don't expect the plot to be overly thought out or imaginative (like Scream), but it is neither a seen-it-before boring-and-all story full of holes. Actually, it will be quite pleased with the screenplay in general. The characters are engaging and the story holds up to mild scrutiny. It has enough twists to keep you wondering and interested.
Bottom line is excellent cinematography and better than average story.
A game designer uses his ex-girlfriend Nami as the heroine of his latest electronic creation. They drive out to a mansion that she has inherited from her dead father. Nami, for the first time, discovers that she has a twin sister and finds several horrible mummified young bodies. Suddenly, they are attacked and almost strangled. Nami eventually finds that her twin sister is not really a sister after all...
