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 Kairo (or as its also known Pulse) is an interesting horror movie in just how nihilistic it is. The ghosts can't be fought or stopped. There are really only two options, you kill yourself or give in to the despair. Another thing is how nobody in the movie has any answers as to what's going on. A couple of the character have theories but the film doesn't present these as correct. Whatever you do avoid the American remake as it is chock full of missteps, including a bizarre scene where Brad Dourif appears out of nowhere and explains exactly what's going on and what the main characters can do to survive. While the Japanese version used computers and the internet as a metaphor of how technology alienates us, the American version goes with the much simpler "Ghosts are haunting the internet!" This article sums up stuff better than I can.
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echoplex posted:
Speaking of "bait and switch" and Sorcerer the movie is most known for a disastrous theater run. The problem being that it was the next film by the director of The Exorcist, called Sorcerer but wasn't occult related at all. Theaters also had to print notices letting people know that despite the opening of the film being in a foreign language the rest of the film was in English.
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