Creepy

I would not describe this as a traditional horror movie, as the unfortunate title might indicate to some people. I don't think it's intended to be "scary" in that sense, disturbing would be a better description. It's a serious, well-done combination of murder mystery and character studies of a psychopath and his victims. It was always interesting and repellant at the same time, as this subject matter usually is. It was also entirely plausible, at least, from what I have read on the subject, it was to me. Anyone who finds it unbelievable I think may not know much about psychopaths. I thought it was very well-acted. Like most Japanese films translated for English subtitles, it does suffer some from oversimplified and poorly translated dialogue, which can make even the best Japanese actors seem silly and bland. There are also cultural differences to consider. The Japanese in general tend to be very reserved. If allowances are made for those two handicaps, I think most will find this to be an excellent film. Would be worth renting, even if it wasn't already available on Prime.

Kurosawa unaccountably takes a lot of heat for having the gall to mature; I found this late-career film to be one of his best. The themes and environments are not far removed from last year's celebrated Parasite: secrets intersecting with class issues; crypt-like hiding places; bursts of bizarre and destructive behavior; pawning off the hard stuff to "the help." This is decidedly nastier affair, though, with a latter-half escalation that's graphic and anxiety-provoking (worry for the dog...). Recommended for those who can let go of the idea that Kurosawa is depleted - he's not, he's prescient.

There are some features that make "Creepy" worth watching. The first hour or so is structured like a Hitchcock film, complete with a detective who leaves the force after a tragic incident and a girl haunted by her mysterious past. The story arc built up some big expectations, which unfortunately weren't satisfied by what followed. The villain was indeed quite creepy. I enjoyed the creative use of light and shadow and the solid musical score, which harkened back to classic film music by composers like Bernard Herrmann. And the innovative use of vacuum sealing was quite disturbing.But the second half of the film was not nearly as interesting. The director threw the detective story overboard in favor of psychodrama. The moral compass of the film began to revolve around free will vs. determinism. I think the audience was supposed to wonder whether the characters' inherent good tendencies would win out over psychopathic efforts at controlling their minds. But I agree with reviewers who found that how this played out in the characters' actions was very confusing at times. In fact we find out what's going on way too late to create effective suspense. And as has been pointed out the story line relies way too heavily on coincidences, and the characters make some unusually dumb decisions even for a horror film.This film was worth a watch, but you may be disappointed in it by the end.

One of the best psychopath slow-burns of the last 10 years. This film DOES have english subtitles, you just need to enable them once the film starts. Regardless, if you're a moron who can't figure that out why give the movie a bad review? Ridiculous. Anyway, this movie isn't for stupid people who won't want to spend time turning this over in their head, or who don't understand the meaning behind the images on the screen. It's not even subtle about it's depiction and flat out criticism of the post nuclear family. This is a good film.

!SPOILER! Do not listen to the reviewers who are saying how bad of a film this is. Something isn't right with that. This was a pretty good movie by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It had decent suspense and good mystery. Something I would have liked to know is what was going on with Mio. Where did she come about and how was she and everyone else being controlled by this "shot?"

Where do I start? I can't believe this film portrayed the female protagonist as so darn pathetic. It's the year 2019 and that's what we get? Sad. The whole story is too unbelievable. There is no back story as to why the young girl and the wife would be so easily manipulated by the weirdo. All I can say is that the movie seems to lean toward men being the stronger specie because the male protagonist saved the day. Too funny because I have seen too many cool American movies where female actually saved the male and had brains. Please don't even give this move a chance. It's bad acting all over and yeah, females in this movie, I am disgusted that the writer and producer actually allowed this movie to be made/written.

Creepy is somewhat akin to the excellent Spanish movie called ‘sleeptight’. But as is usually the case... Asian versions of movies are always infinitely better in every respect.This movie is very scary in a real world kinda way.I disliked that the dog Max seemed not to be a believable part of the family, and no affection passed between its owners and itself. I feel this detracted a lot from what could have been an even deeper impact.

Cross Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ with Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’—‘Creepy’ is what you’d get. Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a master of atmosphere.

Excelente película.

Le film est très bien et l'histoire par elle-même change un peu de l'ordinaire mais malgré tout prévisible m'a bien plus. Mais j'ai trouvé que le film trainait tout de même en longueur pour une fin que l'on attendais tous. Sinon la qualité audiovisuelle est parfaite.

Magnifique film, magnifiques acteurs, ambiance bizarre et pesante. On ne sait pas trop où ça va finir et on est pas déçu. Laissez vous tenter, c'est encore du très bon cinéma asiatique.

Ce blu-ray ne fonctionne pas. Les mises à jour de mon lecteur sont OK et au lancement du disque je n'ai qu'un écran noir.

Must see movie!!! I love asian movies!!!!