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Solid Taiwanese horror; tho nothing too original, it's done very well with some legitimately creepy moments, very fitting atmosphere, and a nice little twist at the end. Overall, it feels a bit like...Blair Witch Project meets The Grudge.

Like a lot of Asian horror it features a girl with long straggly black hair who crawls across floors and ceilings in a creepy way, and water. It's got some decent scares and a creepy atmosphere that carries it rhek6. Better than most Netflix horror, just nothing to write home about.

This film is set on a university campus in Taiwan where a reporter is investigating the deaths of five students. They died four years previously to the day... on the twenty ninth of February 2016. Apparently victims of a bridge that has been cursed since a student died there some years previously. Through a series of flashbacks we see the students taking part in a test of courage on the bridge and what happened subsequently.

Early on I thought I might have picked a dud here but it isn't long before things improve. As a chiller it is highly effective; more than once it gave me goose bumps and the way many characters are clearly terrified creates a great atmosphere. Inevitably there are some jumps scares; I didn't find them excessive though. We do get some decent twists, which I personally didn't see coming. The acting was solid enough as were most of the special effects. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of far eastern ghost stories looking for something made somewhere other than Japan or South Korea.

These comments are based on watching the film in Chinese with English subtitles.

Attempting to investigate an urban legend, a news reporter begins looking into the mysterious disappearance of several students after they were playing a game to invoke the spirit of a ghost who haunts a nearby bridge on campus, and when she discovers that she's next in line to suffer the ghosts' wrath must find a way to stop it.

For the most part, this one offers some enjoyable aspects. One of the films' best features is the strong background work that gives off a rather fine set up that contains a nice immersion quality. As we're given a lot of information about the legacy of the stunt and how it turned into a student hazing stunt, the film carries on quite nicely. Starting in-universe as the typical urban myth about a woman who died on the spot and now haunts the area after being rejected by her boyfriend, the start of the legend is a suitable small-town ghost-story that could conceivably grow into a more prominent urban legend. The beginning of the film showing off the historical background of the as well as the recreation of the main prank committed by the students finely completes this. As well, the atmosphere created here is quite chilling at times. The fabled bridge where the action takes place is a rather creepy area, taking place in a seemingly deserted part of the campus where the cobblestone construction and prominent trees surrounding it leaves quite an impression when traveling through at night. That plays a part in the resulting atmosphere featured during the attacks which are quite chilling and creepy at times, from the ambush out at the bridge to the various encounters around the campus including the bathroom scenes and the hallways of the dorm. The intensity and ferocity of the ghostly attacks are quite fun as the being continually moves out of the darkness to attack, creating some stand-out shock scenes in the randomness around the campus where it appears or the creepy setup to it doing so. Featuring a rousing finale with some nice twists and stand-out ghost action, this one is quite enjoyable at times. This one does have some issues with it. The main problem is the films' seemingly random and arbitrary jumping back-and-forth throughout the various timelines as we switch from the original incident involving the students trying the legend for themselves and encountering the ghost and the reporter investigating the incident in the present. As this creates some severe jumping around to figure out what happened, the resulting whiplash trying to keep track of everything is a hurdle to getting into the film even though it settles down considerably as it goes along. Likewise, the film's over-reliance on standard formulaic ghost antics is a big disservice, bringing nothing new to the table as this one goes for all the expected tropes in a creaky, slimy, scuttling pale figure leaps out of nowhere to grab victims and kills them in ways as to suggest suicide upon later discovery of the body. It's all been seen before and can come off as wholly cliched for the most part to some viewers.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

The staging and cinematography of the ghost sequences is slightly more creativa than average. So it's fun to watch.