Review of Goth (2008) by Jason J — 24 Sep 2011

Surprisingly billed as one of the must-see horrors to come from Japan, this is a rather disappointing movie overall. It's interesting mind you but there's no real horror in this movie at all. You only get to see severed hands and that's basically it.

What makes this movie interesting is in it's lead characters - 2 screwed up teenagers who admire the murderer for his artistic killings and try to think where the next body is going to turn up. There's a rather good twist on the identity of the serial killer near the climax too.

Kanata Hongo and Rin Takanashi make a good pairing as we delve into their twisted world of death. I suspect many could find this movie a little bit too slow and boring for their tastes considering nothing major of such happens.

I found it rather intriguing and original.