Howling Village

This is a weak film. Starts really well but then just becomes uninteresting with too much non-convincing drama, too much talk, very predictable scares/deaths and lack of connection between scenes.

What's worst here is that I can feel that this story could have been a great film, as everything about the village is really creepy.

If you compare it to what Hollywood is churning out. Some form of family/friends entering a new home and facing horror, then this one is a refreshing change to that pattern.

Here the story is somewhere in Japan. Some teenagers visit a forgotten and hard to find place named Howling Village. There's the anticipation there exist ghosts. To their surprise the teenagers found out, that this is exactly the case. Pretty scary ones as well, so they ran in panic away, but the girl which was courageous amd funny until then, couldn't shake away the experience she just had. Not long later she commits suicide and her boyfriend wants revenge a d turns back to the place. He goes missing and that sets in a chain of events that are not very friendly to the town...

Some creepy parts and the story is interesting throughout the movie. The ghost town is a nice idea and there's a twist in the end that might not be your thing.

Inspired by a Japanese urban legend, Howling Village is the first installment of Takashi Shimizu's "Horror Village" film series.

Some plot elements shouldn't have to be in this film. They dragged the storytellling on a different path. With a fantastic cast Takashi managed to create a new J-horror experience.

Easy to understand. I'm not sure what all the other reviews were talking about in that regard. The story line was interesting, but overall it wasn't the most exciting movie. I didn't find it so much a horror as more a thriller. Overall i did enjoy the movie slightly, and I'm not mad I watched it, but if you're looking for something scary this really isn't the watch for you. The characters weren't stupid per say, but there was some moments where I wanted to yell at them.

I don't know if it's just that I didn't pay enough attention to the storyline or it is lost in the subtitled translation or it's disjointed with no hope. Much of the movie was good, even intriguing. And it's made well, not an amateur production which many substandard horror films are. Yes, you'll get the main point about a travesty the leads to the legend of the Howling Village, but beyond that, It just didn't come together. It has a more than enough horror tropes to warrant a good film, maybe too many. Without spoiling it, there's your characters that can see the dead/ghosts and you have a corporate calamity/crime, and a few zombie like monsters, a cursed heritage, time travel, and an alternate reality or maybe you don't have these elements. And, if you do? How do they fit together? Aggh. Having just read some other reviews, I guess my confusion has less to do with my level of attention and more to do with the movie. G.