Gakkou no kaidan: Noroi no kotodama (2014)

Gakkou no kaidan: Noroi no kotodama: Directed by Masayuki Ochiai. With Hitomi Arai, Shôno Hayama, Kai Inowaki, Anna Ishibashi. Ayano, Yuri, Miyu and Mei are high school female students victims of paranormal incidents that may be linked to a gas accident occurred to first-year students in class number 4, years ago.

“As I sat down to watch the 2014 Japanese horror movie titled u0026quot;Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spiritu0026quot; (aka u0026quot;Gakkou no kaidan: Noroi no kotodamau0026quot;), I must admit that I was expecting a bit more of a horror movie than what this turned out to be.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNow, school is boring, granted, but did writer and director Masayuki Ochiai really have to transfer the boredom of school and attending classes to the movie? This movie was so unfathomably slow paced that it was hard to stay awake during the ordeal that passed as a horror movie. And little did it help that the storyline was just utter garbage. It is without a doubt one of the most unappealing and boring of Japanese horror stories I have had the misfortune of sitting through.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn fact, this movie was so boring that I just gave up on it with about 30 minutes left of the movie. But since absolutely nothing interesting or scary had happened up to that point, I just had my share of wasting my time, and called it quits on u0026quot;Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spiritu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd I can honestly say that I have zero intention of returning to watch the rest of the movie, because I didnu0026#39;t care one bit about the storyline, much less have an interest in the rigid and wooden characters that milled about with no purpose in the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you enjoy Japanese horror movies, you should do yourself a favor and wide u0026quot;Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spiritu0026quot; a wide berth. This is seriously a waste of time to sit down to watch. And for a horror movie, then u0026quot;Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spiritu0026quot; was just awfully devoid of anything even remotely scary, disturbing or creepy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy rating of u0026quot;Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spiritu0026quot; lands on a generous three out of ten stars, solely based on the production value of the movie, and the fact that the actors and actresses put on adequate enough performances, given the fact that they had literally nothing to work with in terms of script and characters.”