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Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

First off, to anyone who sees the version I did. The film starts out with a commercial of the video game based on the movie. They show some scenes from the movie, and pretty good ones at that. So, if you start the flick and see a video game commercial I'd turn my head away just so you don't ruin anything for yourself.Japanese Horror is something of a hit or miss with me. I'm not a fan of the jerky ghosts who walk like they have rheumatoid arthritis, or the pale-faced long hair girls. I'm not saying those movies can't deliver a chill or two, but overall it's a very played out scare-tactic and it's almost eye-rollingly cliché nowadays. Well, back in 89' there was a movie called Sweet Home, and this flick suffers from zero of these problems. It's unique in it's scares and chills, and that's what I really commend it for.With a story revolving around a family/team heading to a abandoned mansion to investigate whether the house has a rare painting the story plays out like any haunted house flick. There may be something wrong, but no one really cares or believes. Well, after a little bit, they finally do begin to realize the mansion is cursed, but by the time they realize, the wheels of horror are in motion, and it's now a fight to stay alive.Sweet Home, isn't a perfect flick, there are some drags in the film, and I personally think the movie could have been a lot scarier. They had perfect set-ups mixed with perfect camera-shots, but only used them for the creepy factor instead of the scare-factor. You're presented with a sense of dread, but rarely do they ever really try to scare you. Nevertheless, the film does offer chills and enough of them to satisfy the viewer.But with a cool story, good acting, fantastic atmosphere/cinematography and great fx, the movie more than delivers enough for an entertaining and unique little haunted house flick. If you're into Japanese horror/haunted house flicks, give this flick a shot. It's worth it.

A television crew enter the sprawling Mamiya mansion to film the restoration of a fresco painted by the artist who lived there decades before.They discover not one but several frescoes including one that seems to depict the death of a young child in some kind of furnace.That night the temperamental presenter wanders out into the grounds of the house and digs up a coffin containing the charred remains of an infant.It soon becomes apparent that the child's mother,although dead herself has not left the house and is still angered by her loss."Sweet Home" is obviously inspired by Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist" and Robert Wise's "The Haunting".The special effects made by Dick Smith are spectacular and there is a good amount of grue including dismemberments and melting faces.The action is fast-paced,the script is well-written and the characters are engaging.8 out of 10.A hidden gem.

I saw this movie recently thinking that it would be scary, I was wrong. The movie isn't really that scary, it mostly has the usual gross horror special effects and killings. I was surprised at how "stupid" the movie was. A few examples, if you are working under a jacked-up car and listening to a sports game, do you get excited and start hopping while you're still underneath? If someone sees a small, strange, man-made rock formation with a skull-shaped rock on top, should they kick it over so they can use one of the rocks to break open a shed? If someone is killed with an axe, why would they turn into a pile of melted wax and how does a character recognize that pile of melted wax as one of their friends? This is just a few of the nonsensical things. The characters in the movie are not the usual horror cliché, pausing when they should be running, not picking up weapons etc., they are complete idiots. This movie would be great entertainment for a bad movie night or if you enjoy B movies (I do but, this was too much). Don't expect a work of art like other horror movies.

The question is do you want story or gore?If you want a story over special effects and blood splattering then this is the movie for you.The story involves a film crew going to the home of a long dead artist in order to film the murals painted on all of the walls of the house The paintings, which almost no one ever saw while the artist was alive have now become completely unseen by anyone living. The crew feels recording the legendary paintings will be the perfect addition to their film. The towns folk of course know that this is not a good idea and that the house is not a place that should be disturbed and they try to prevent the visit.Of course the crew goes and of course bad things begin to happen. What happens and why, is the rest of the movie.The joy of this film for me is that this is one of the rare horror films that works from start to finish with no real bumps in logic. What is happening or more importantly why things are happening is reasonable to the point of making some people I know want to scream. I can't really explain that without telling you the end and I will not do that under pain of death.SPOILER ABOUT A DIFFERENT FILM AND AN ALLUSION TO THIS ONE: Its like the end of 13th Warrior where the final battle ends suddenly because the lead bad guy is killed and his men ride off. Many people I know hate the film because the battle is cut so short and seemingly out of left field, but if you think about it, that is what would happen. The same goes here, you find out whats happening and you'll either love it because it makes sense or you hate it because it seems to come from left field, but really doesn't. END SPOILERSWith all of the Horror films coming out of Japan and elsewhere I'm shocked that this one never was released here in th US, especially in light of the fact that legendary make-up effects man Dick Smith was responsible for the effects.If you love haunted house thrillers and well plotted ghost stories that actually play fair then see this movie. I know its difficult to do but its worth the effort to find it, its one of the great lost jewels of horror.