Stays a few steps ahead by pretending it's a few steps behind, This is not the Kim Jee-Won film but rather a mash-up of Parents with Ringu with Barbarian which for a good fun while, makes it make sense. Then it asks its "Sadako" to explain everything and until that point, I'd forgotten this was an American horror film, not least because Bodin is French and the director of Marianne and that show's grasp of transgressive weirdness and ambiguity does leak and seep into some of this. The Rapunzel sequence rescues the film from that expository mishap then gets lazy again with the obligatory "but there's more" end sequence that does feel obligatory. Fun enough.
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