WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

writtenbymkm-583-902097 Scary movies are supposed to be scary. This one is not. A scary movie, or any movie, is supposed to make sense. This one does not. This movie is a confused cluster of almost random images, assorted flashbacks, and a guy staring and staring and staring into the camera. The ending seems to have absolutely nothing to do with any of the rest of the movie. I'm not even sure who was alive and who was dead. Why would anyone make a movie like this? Was it supposed to be artistic? It was just painfully boring and awful.

WILLIAM FLANIGAN Viewed on DVD. Subtitles = ten (10) stars; restoration = ten (10) stars. Director Yoshihiro Nakamura delivers a remarkably suspenseful drama which is mostly confined to a single, tiny set (a long abandoned NHK radio studio). (How Director Nakamura crammed actors, equipment, and crew into such a tiny set is logistically mind bogging.) What makes things even more remarkable is that the film is in effect a two character story. Actor Ryuta Sato's masterful performance shows the disintegration of a once cocky late-night, call-in host (of a show for the teenage lovelorn) during what unexpectedly ends up as the final show. An old radio studio (into which the show has just moved temporally) has a reputation for being creepy and, perhaps, is haunted (years ago, a DJ committed suicide during a show which closed down the place); this is, of course, reinforced by the plot devices in this photo play. Actress Maiko Asano provides a scary counterpoint with a performance (especially her facial expressions) that is top-of-the-line Hitchcockian sinister. Cinematography (wide screen, color) and scene lighting are fine. Subtitles are among the best yet provided in support of a "standard Japanese" (Tokyo-Ben) dialect movie! Translations have been given careful consideration unlike the subtitles for many modern/restored Japanese films which often look/read like low-cost after thoughts. Grammatically well edited compared to line readings, they are just the right length to carry the story forward with minimal distraction and appear on screen long enough to be easily read/understood (and compared to line readings). A movie not recommended for viewing alone, especially at night! WILLIAM FLANIGAN, PhD.

yellowmask73 My wife and I just finished watching Bûsu AKA The Booth. She fell asleep during some parts of the movie. I really wish I had taken a snooze with her, but the unfortunate fact is that the main character's voice is so loud and grating that it was impossible for me to sleep. When our protagonist speaks, it makes me want to hear Regis Philbin and William Shatner sing karaoke. He also has no redeeming qualities. I was hoping he'd get hit by a bus five minutes into the film.Don't get me wrong, I love Asian horror cinema, but The Booth is extremely irritating and full of scenes that really make no damned sense at all. If you want some good Asian cinema, check out A Tale of Two Sisters or Into The Mirror. Avoid The Booth like the plague, especially if you suffer from frequent migraines.

vghb95a The Booth puts a whole new twist on your typical J-horror movie. This movie puts you in the shoes of the protagonist of the story. The director wants you to see what the protagonist sees and thinks.The story is about perception of the people who works, lives, and loves of our protagonist, and how he perceives the people who surrounds him in an antiquated radio station DJ booth. The story peels back the layers of the main character like an onion in flash-backs as the movie runs its course, and from it we learned that things are not always the way it seems. The movie mostly took place in a small, out-dated radio station's studio with a very bad history, where the main character was forced to broadcast his talk show due to the radio station was in the process of re-locating. It is from this confined space that this movie thrives and makes you feel very claustrophobic and very paranoid. At time our protagonist can not determined the strange happenings in the old studio were caused by ghost or some conspiracy by his co-workers or it was all in his mind. What I like about this film is that the film-makers makes you see through the eyes of the main character and makes you just as paranoid as protagonist did. This movie is a very smart, abide rather short 76 minutes film.