Hot take incoming given this film’s Letterboxd average and the reputation of its director, but I didn’t have any feelings for this one at all. Didn’t hate it, was a little hum-drum but not aggressively so. It just kind of feels like J-Horror on auto-pilot.

It’s about a chef in Japan who begins to hear a mysterious chime… and others hear it as well. The result is indiscriminate murder and suicide.

I get it, it’s a low key, atmospheric horror movie where society begins a slow crumble into pointless madness. It’s a theme in other J-Horror films and I like the concept, but this one just felt too much like trying to hit that eerie, unmoored angle and doing nothing else.

But maybe it’s a me thing… you’re saying that people are killing without any motivation and it leaves you feeling unmoored? Sounds like a Tuesday in America! Har-de-har-har.

I’m all for more of this, but maybe not this in particular.

Score: 67