Name: Reikai no tobira Street View
Genre: Horror
Released: 2011-08-16
Duration: 1 h 16 min
Rating: 2.8
Cast: Rino Aoki, Ayano, Minori Fujikura

I could have forgiven the listless performances, the amateurish production values (including some truly corny sound cues), locations obviously chosen because they were on a college campus or otherwise didn't require a license to film there, and even the absurd and half-baked premise on which the story is founded, but I can't forgive the fact that every opportunity to inject some degree of imagination or visual interest into the few-and-far-between horror scenes was utterly wasted. The best compliment I can give this film is that it doesn't feature a female ghost with long hair covering her face - though even a hackneyed visual like that might have livened things up, at least.

Also it felt like about 3/4 of the running time consisted of flat shots of a character slowly walking from Point A to Point B, or just staring blankly at things.

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