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- Mar 17, 2022
Watched some more J-horror, Kyofu: The Sylvian Experiment and Infection NOT CURE, FUCK, I''M WRITING WHILE SHITTING MYSELF HALF TO DEATH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND IF ANYONE SAW THIS POST THE SECOND IT CAME UP I SAID CURE INSTEAD OF INFECTION.
Kyofu started out promising and then in the last 10 minutes perfectly achieved the J-Horror cliche of being utterly anthropocentric navel-gazing about human anxieties, but up until that point it seemed like a Japanese take on From Beyond, with existential dread replacing libido as the motivation for exploration.
Alright, maybe I'm being too harsh. If you like horror primarily as a means to explore the human condition then maybe there's something here, but after getting punked once by the ending of Pulse I'm not so eager to continue entertaining this cinematic family of non sequitur - or at least, distinctly, similarly incongruous - finales.
Infection, on the other hand, was much less worthy of any "serious" (AKA makes film students feel fuzzy inside for "getting it") analysis, but so entertaining all throughout. It even has a twist ending that, rather than just being an abrupt bitch-slap by concentrated existential despair, was actually well set up and satisfying! Though perhaps my appreciation comes too easily, because Infection seemed more like a Western horror flick than anything else I've watched so far; it's like going to Japan and then eating at McDonald's, of course it will be easy to "appreciate."
Kyofu started out promising and then in the last 10 minutes perfectly achieved the J-Horror cliche of being utterly anthropocentric navel-gazing about human anxieties, but up until that point it seemed like a Japanese take on From Beyond, with existential dread replacing libido as the motivation for exploration.
Alright, maybe I'm being too harsh. If you like horror primarily as a means to explore the human condition then maybe there's something here, but after getting punked once by the ending of Pulse I'm not so eager to continue entertaining this cinematic family of non sequitur - or at least, distinctly, similarly incongruous - finales.
Infection, on the other hand, was much less worthy of any "serious" (AKA makes film students feel fuzzy inside for "getting it") analysis, but so entertaining all throughout. It even has a twist ending that, rather than just being an abrupt bitch-slap by concentrated existential despair, was actually well set up and satisfying! Though perhaps my appreciation comes too easily, because Infection seemed more like a Western horror flick than anything else I've watched so far; it's like going to Japan and then eating at McDonald's, of course it will be easy to "appreciate."
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