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Just what I expected

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

THE TAG-ALONG is a popular Taiwanese horror film that takes the form of a ghost story heavily indebted to the likes of RING and THE GRUDGE. Sadly, those Japanese classics were far more interesting than this lacklustre, by-the-numbers outing which is content to copy and imitate rather than innovate. The story's background - about a little girl in red whose appearance foreshadows disaster - is by far the most interesting thing about the production, given that it's based on a true story. Sadly, the film has a cheap, blue-tinted digital look and actors giving indifferent performances throughout. It becomes more and more reliant on ridiculously cheesy CGI ghosts as it goes on, and the one or two genuine scares are borrowed from better fare.

First hour of Plot, expansion of story line at Amazon US.This is a Taiwanese film with English subtitles. The film initially centers on Ho Chih Wei, a young man who lives with his grandma and sells real estate. He has a number of issues. His girlfriend of 5 years doesn't want to marry him. Aunt Shui has gone missing. Grandma has wandered off. A girl in a red dress from the mountains has been coming to the city and taking souls. And oh yes, he develops that possession thing and goes missing as the film now shifts gears into a real horror film and centers on the girlfriend Shen Yi-Chen. She gathers up a posse to go to the mountains. At an hour into the film it gets good as she strolls through the woods.This was an okay horror film similar to Japanese horror films. There is an anti-abortion theme, perhaps aimed at the mainland. Not a good film for any woman who has recently had an abortion.Guide: F-word (I can now swear in Mandarin, should prove interesting next time I order Chinese.) . No sex or nudity.

It's been a while since I've seen a good horror movie. It's been a while since I've seen a good Chinese movie.I can't even remember a Chinese horror movie I'd rate as high as 9 out of 10.This was a great movie, lot's of jumping scares.Only downside is I wish the CGI was a little CGIish, maybe a if they had it little obscured or out of the corner. This is only really a slight blemish on a great movie.I'd recommend this a watch. This goes into my Horror movie Favorite list.

I don't watch a lot of Asian horror films, mainly because I have never really been much of a fan of paranormal movies, and for the most part Asian horror films tend to focus on paranormal type things (mostly scary little kid ghosts). But the other night I was bored and in the mood for a horror film, I decided to not be picky at all and basically just randomly pick one of the newer releases from the genre. I stumbled onto a Taiwanese film called "The Tag Along" and honestly I am glad I did.The film follows Zhi-wei He, a young adult who lives a fairly busy life trying to juggle his job, his girlfriend, and spending time with his grandmother who lives with him. Zhi-wei He's life is turned upside down when a little ghost girl in a red dress shows up and takes his grandmother away. From there things get pretty wild as the little ghost girl makes multiple appearances to terrorize Zhi-wei and the other people in his life.Early on "The Tag Along" does a lot of things right, the characters are interesting and the story is set up well, plus there are a lot of very well done subtle scare scenes that did a good job of catching me off guard. Unfortunately as the film progresses it becomes more and more dependent on CGI and less on practical scares. At this point it was still entertaining, however the CGI caused the film to lose a lot of it's creepiness. There are actually quite a few scenes that had me giggling a bit due to the goofy effects.I liked "The Tag Along", overall it was a pretty fun ghost story that was clever at times and didn't rely too much on the normal Ghost Movie clichés (even though there are quite a few present here). Without the CGI I feel like this could have been a lot better, but even with it the film is still entertaining and worth checking out.6/10