Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

jfgibson73 I watched Rinne after reading some reviews that described it as being genuinely scary. I will agree that there is some very creepy imagery in there, and there are some tense moments. I think the reason this didn't work better was because the story was so all over the place. I am not sure if it has to do with the fact that it was a foreign film and I was not used to the storytelling structures of this culture, or if it was just a trippy movie, but I was working too hard to follow the plot to be affected. I was more nervous watching The Strangers, which was a dirt-simple story, but it got right to the business of being scary. With some editing, or a more coherent script, this might have been one of the scariest movies of recent years, but it felt like there were too many unrelated images and stories thrown together just to have something freaky looking to film. I was especially put off by the ending. Having a main character going insane is about as creative as killing them off--that's something they'd tell you not to do in a high school writing class.

preppy-3 A young actress named Nagisa (Yuka) gets a role in a horror film. It's based on a real incident where 11 people were killed. She starts having hallucinations and dreams about the killings and the place they took place at...but she's never been there. Things escalate leading to a tragic conclusion.I usually hate Asian horror films. They seem to be full of white faced ghost kids with big eyes jumping out at you. This was an exception. It DOES have dead kids (an uncomfortable image that they show far too much) but there's also a mystery involved with the killings. It's slowly unravelled and all comes together at the end. It's held together by good acting, great directing and a spooky soundtrack filled with unpleasant sounds and music. Unfortunately this is far from perfect. The plot has a few (minor) loopholes and it moves far too slow. There was this tendency to show the same scenes multiple times--it gets tedious fast. Still it does work on you and the ending did chill me. Recommended. I give it a 7.

Zombified_660 The easiest way I can think of summing up Reincarnation is as a cross between Ring and The Shining. It's a slow building chiller, directed with a stylish touch by director of The Grudge Takashi Shimizu. While this movie has a few jump moments and some truly creepy ghost moments, it's more of a psychological, supernatural thriller than a haunted house film.A young woman is starting out on a career as an actress. She auditions for a new horror film based on true events, a massacre at a hotel where a university professor went crazy, murdering his family and the hotel night staff all in one night. She leaves the audition and begins to have visions of a little girl and her doll in impossible places. Soon she gets a call back, and goes to meet the director. As soon as she's cast in the film her visions change and begin to include images of the murders. She starts to investigate into why.It's a different story to the average 'this place is haunted, I shouldn't go in here...well, maybe a little...OHMIGOD!' stories that J-Horror is famous for, and it makes the film feel fresh. Also the directions it takes are both unexpected and very creepy. I won't give any of them away to avoid spoiling the film, but the movies twists and turns give it a great storyline and structure.I can't recommend this film enough. Yes it is subtitled, and watching a film this tied up to Japanese culture and beliefs in a dub destroys a lot of the mystique, so I wouldn't recommend it to those who can't sit through subtitled films, but it is an excellent horror, spooky and ultimately quite chilling.It is worth noting that this movie is also at times quite brutal. The flashbacks to the murders though brief are disturbing and explicit, and often seen through the murderers eyes, so the easily upset be warned.However, to avoid this movie simply because of a few short sequences of disturbing violence or it's language would be to miss out on a great horror film with a unique feel and excellent atmosphere. Please watch this movie, you won't regret it.

moimoichan6 No doubt about it : for a scary movie, it's really scary. Some scenes are really frightful, especially when some characters come to see impossible presences, that make their rational universe slowly collapses into madness, and that transforms their fake fear into a more than real one.There's lot of things in that movie, maybe to much. "Rinne" tells the story of the filming of an horror movie, but also of of the murders that occurred in a Shinning-like hostel thirty years ago, or of an actress who's too involved in her part. There's maybe way too much to tell to find coherency in all that, and what the movie wins in abstract fear, it loses in unity.But if Takashi Shimisu fails to tell us a linear story, he archives to make us fell the deep fear of his characters : some scenes are incredibly frightened and beautifully directed (especially the ones with the ghost-father and his creepy camera-eyes). He really uses noises and visual codes to creates a (Jap')horror atmosphere. It's really too bad that the movie ultimately looks like a catalog of style effects : of course, it works, but is it enough to make a movie ?