Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

p-stepien Relentlessly making footage with an unearthly obsessiveness Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) happens across a peculiar subway suicide, where an man named Furoki (Kazuhiro Nakahara) pokes out his eye, as if to stop himself from seeing something terrifying. Tantalized by this occurrence Masuoka replays the captured footage certain that something meaningful is hidden beyond the camera. He soon descends into the vast underground system beneath the city of Tokyo, finally wandering into an otherworldly place, where he finds a naked chained female (Tomomi Miyashita)...After the success of "The Grudge" Takashi Shimuzu ventures into unusual horror territory with this independent low-key outing. Cut off from the rapidly ageing J-horror ghost craze Shimuzu manages to come out with an obscure, but simultaneously edgy and vastly brilliant journey in the madness of the long forgotten Shaver mystery and his theories of the Hidden World - a world situated beneath the surface, an underground metropolis infested with blood-hungry creatures called 'deros' (or 'detrimental robots'). Somewhere apart from a traditional horror structure, much inclined towards the insanity of other dimensions so prevalent in Lovecraft lore, Shimuzu delivers an frightfully disturbing piece. Not overflowing with pure scares, owes its atmosphere to a verite style chosen by the director, keeping the focus always marred with limited perspective of the human eye, as if something is always lurking just outside the line of sight. Masuoka himself constantly films throughout the movie, hence two perspectives - one from the camera of our protagonist, whilst the other a dimly lit grainy visuals portraying Masuoka closest surroundings - as if showing the world through the eyes of Masuoka in contrast to his camera lens. These two perspectives increasingly blur towards the end of the picture introducing doubts as to whether reality is better seen through human eyes or through the camera. Engulfed in this insane vision comes an ultimately captivating movie, which seems like a true breath of fresh air to the tired genre.Open to varying interpretation as to true events obviously detaching itself from straightforward plot resolution, "Marebito" favourably invites rewatches and offers each viewer a possibility to construe their own take of the movie. A tale basically told from the perspective of Masuoka suggests that the whole endeavour is a journey in the subconscious, where reality comes back occasionally, vividly and meshes with the perception of our hero. Reality is what is created in the mind's eye, such as the Hidden World, which becomes real once people believe it. Essentially a journey in the depths of Masuoka's mind, his misgivings as a human, which made him detach into voyeuristic living through the camera lens, and human obsessions. Essentially more a metaphorical, albeit strange journey, much misunderstood and wrongfully limited to being just a horror, whereas it is more a psychological venture into the dark side of the mind.

Tokyo-1997 This movie started off really well, with lots of adventure and the cinematography is great. This movie was done 8 days before Ju-On and I would say that the director did a decent job. There was suspense in the beginning. After the cameraman brought the girl home, he starts to find out more about her and starts to buy new clothes. He found out that the girl feeds on blood and does whatever it takes to obtain blood from her. The first 2/3 of the movie started off well, but the last 1/3 of this movie was not that good. I could not understand what was happening during the last 1/3 of the movie at all. Lots of questions just come to my mind at the end of this movie. Why was the cameraman insane? Why did he kill all his family members? I could not really get what happened in the end? Why was he terrified and why was his face red? In addition, around the last 1/3 of this movie I started to feel like I am watching a movie about someone doing whatever it takes to find food for his pet (only exception is that the girl eats blood) and starts to get quite uninteresting. However, the good points of the film is that the imagery at the beginning of this movie and the mystery of this movie was done very well. The place where the cameraman found the girl and try to find out more facts about that girl by checking her teeth buying clothes for her to wear. There is quite a lot of emotion between the characters in this film. This film is really beautiful at the beginning and the middle but gets very complicating and slightly uninteresting towards the end. Still recommended if you want to watch a film that is original though. Score: 7.7/10

Claudio Carvalho In Tokyo, the freelancer cameraman Takuyoshi Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is obsessed investigating the fear sensation near death. When he shots with his camera a man stabbing himself in the eye in the access to the subway, he seeks what the suicidal might have seen to experiment the same sense of horror the man felt when he died. He finds a passage to the underground of Tokyo where he meets a mysterious naked woman that does not speak and he calls her F (Tomomi Miyashita). He brings F to his place and he has difficulties to feed her, until he discovers that she drinks blood. Masuika becomes a serial killer draining the blood of his victims to nurse F."Marebito" is a very weird low-budget movie that discloses the madness process of the lead character through his journey to hell in the underground of Tokyo. This original story is disturbing and unpleasant, using a morbid and creepy atmosphere, to unravel the twisted mind of a deranged man. However this strange movie is recommended for very specific audiences only. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Marebito: Seres Estranhos" ("Marebito: Weird Beings")

christopher-underwood This is some movie. At first deceptively simple and later maybe deceptively involved. Such was the confident manner of the director, Takashi Shimizu, I just went along despite everything and whilst it is difficult to associate with the lead character, the mighty, actor/director (Tetsuo) Shinya Tsuramoto, eventually persuades. Not an easy film to watch with its flashing and even blank screen moments, not to mention the horrific violence, but once this has you hooked, it is difficult to escape. Everything is unbelievable and yet there is a niggling doubt that just maybe things are this bad. Tsuramoto gives a towering performance as a completely lost soul searching it seems for almost anything to justify his existence. What he finds is not a pretty sight but this movie remains with you, for good or bad, long after viewing. Bold and original film making.