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When a group of young game designers work on a new horror game, little do
they know that the game will turn reality for 2 of them, as Nami (Megumi Okina)
& Kohei (Yoichiro Saito) are soon off to make a visit to the mansion Nami's
deceased father, whom she never knew when he was still alive. The mansion turns
out to be a spooky, dark old house with many a secret room, & many of these
rooms hold terrible secrets ... it turns out Nami had a twin sister Naomi, who
is presumed dead (but might not be) & Nami's father, Kaiza Soichi, a famous
but demented painter, had an unhealthy predilection for killing young boys - as
Nami & Kohei find their corpses under the kitchen floor.
It seems though Nami & Kohei are not alone in the house, & indeed,
soon Nami is attacked by the house's caretaker, whom Kohei can chase away
though. When they later find the caretaker hanged in the kitchen, & even a
secret room containing surveillance monitors for the cameras installed all over
the house, it does little to calm their nerves, nor does the information their
friends Sinchi & Toko back at the office send them via internet
(since Kohei has brought his laptop), as it shows that Kaiza Soichi has kept
Naomi as his model ... & could only get inspiration for his paintings when
gruesomely torturing her ...
But as if that wasn't all, Naomi turns out to be very much alive after all -
& very insane -, & she first hunts Kohei with a crossbow & kills
him before forcing Nami to finish their father's last painting - which involves
Naomi poking her own eyes out with a knife & setting herself on fire, &
the fire also kills Nami & burns down the mansion.
The end ?
Well, yes, but only one possible end for the game, as Nami has another
ending, in which Kohei is not quite dead & can save Nami from the flames.
From a safe distance, the 2 of them watch the mansion burn ... but then Kaiza
emerges from the earth directly underneath them ...
Despite admittedly interesting, unnatural & overall creepy colour
effects & nice camera work, the movie cannot hide the fact that it rather
drags during the first half, with the protagonists doing little more than
walking through a house, only in the second half, when the mystery & horror
build up, is the viewer really captivated. The story itself, despite being
souped up with all sorts of electronic gadgets, turns out to be a rather old
fashioned - but interesting - old dark house yarn, complete with a fire
eating the spooky manison in the end.
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