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School Ghost Stories G or Gakkô no kaidan G is a Japanese anthology movie created by Takashi Shimizu. Shimizu is better known his role as the director of “The Grudge” both 1 and 2. “In the Corner” is Shimizu’s first film production.
“In the Corner” starts off with 2 girls cleaning out the class pet rabbit’s cage. One girl cuts her finger and her friend goes off to get her a bandage. Good samaritans never last long in horror films. She returns to find her friend missing and the cages all broken up. Unfortunately, the cause of all this has stayed for her return as well.
Its been a long time since I saw something that made it hard for me to go to sleep. I guess it didnt help I was searching through shortoftheweek at 3 in the morning. It should be said that I think the grudge girl is probably one, if not THE, most horrific creations ever.
Shimizu captured the best moments of any horror movie in a 3 minute clip. The setup is perfect. He starts off with just an average routine and it quickly picks up from there. No ambient music is played and the quality of the clip isn’t great but it doesnt stop the horror from shining through. The moment of terror where the girl realizes she is not alone is pure GOLD. This is what I believe makes “In a corner” such a good horror piece. Shimizu captures that true breath stopping moment in such a short period. No frills, no beating around the bush, just heart pounding terror!
I was so intrigued by this one clip I even youtube’d Shimizu’s other works which you can find here. Shimizu has certainly gained the right to be named with other top notch horror directors.
http://youtu.be/TaQm2YhPAPc
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zk122596 // Oct 2nd 2012 at 7:02 pm
Very good movie for an amateur, or independent short movie. Japanese make the best horror films, which wont let you turn the lights off when going to sleep…
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