Nightmare Detective 2 - Japan

          Director:  Shin'ya Tsukamoto

          Year:  2008

          Plot:  "Yukie and two of her girlfriends are being haunted by the ghost of a classmate, they once bullied. When the other two die under mysterious circumstances, Yukie sees only one chance for herself.  With the help of the Nightmare Detective she hopes to escape her hopeless situation."


          Having already shut off the first movie before finishing it, I had hoped that this one would be better.  It turned out that it was indeed better.  It wasn't great, but it was rather interesting.
          I had an issue with the two storylines and jumping around a lot.  In the movie you get the storyline of Yukie who like the plot says is being haunted in her dreams, and Kagenuma who keeps trying to learn about his mother by talking to his father.  I felt that all of the storyline about Kagenuma and his mother was a little unimportant.  I understand why it was there, but I really felt it could have been left out.  After all, the ending kind of ruined the movie for me.
          It would have been a much better movie if the ending with Kagenuma would have been left out.  I thought that the part where he saved the girl would have been a great ending, but then they went and added all the stuff with Kagenuma's dream and his mother, and it kind of ruined the touching scene just before.
          This one also got a few jumps out of me near the end.  In the first half though, there was no scares in it, but it was still interesting.


          Give this movie a try.  The storyline is interesting even if it has a few faults.

Nightmare Detective - Japan

          Director:  Shinya Tsukamoto
          Year:  2006
          Plot:  "Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Kyoichi Kagenuma, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three."


          The reason I even gave this one the chance I did, is because so many said that the second one was really good.  I don't like watching movies out of order if I can help it, so I gave this one a chance, ignoring the multitude of negative comments.  I wish I would have heeded those comments though.
          I didn't even finish this movie, which is unusual for me.  I even finished watching Whispering Corridors, but this one I just couldn't.  I watched the first few deaths and was in no way impressed.
         The storyline didn't develop itself well enough for me in the beginning.  I mean you start off seeing Kagenuma in a persons dream, then you go right to a girl wanting to die who then gets attacked by an invisible assailant and killed with scissors.  After that, you get to see a little investigating and the team going to Kagenuma to ask for help.  After one of the cops dies, I quit watching.  By then I had hoped to know at least a little bit.  Supposedly the person on the other end of the dial number 0 gets into your dreams and gets you to kill yourself.
          There was nothing about this one that made me want to keep watching it.  At least with Whispering Corridors I at least wanted to know which girl was really a ghost.  This one though I didn't really get the storyline enough to want to know the ending, nor did I care at all about the characters at that point.


          I would suggest skipping this one.