I was close to putting this film out, but since One Cut Of The Dead I've been forcing myself to just give every film its chance to show me what it got. But as interesting as the story about the Howling Village is, the film unfortunately isn't. Several legends have been combined into one, and this simply leads to strange and confusing moments. The whole ending is just a WTF moment, and unfortunately it didn't do as much for me as I wanted. The tropes were all over the place, and I guess this was just too much for me. I did not have a bad time, but the movie lost me a couple of moments while watching. But since I was intrigued by the legend of the village, I will have a look for other or similar media about that. So that's a plus :p

It was not too bad in the beginning but up to the point where Kanae was bout to dig deeper everything just went downhill for me. [spoiler] the show went from ghosts then to weredogs and the ghost that supposedly was helping Kanae suddenly became human or something. It was funny how Maya was about to transform and she had to flip her hair so that the camera could catch her face 'transforming' with the eyes and fangs showing. XD Then the part where they were supposed to run out of the tunnel, stood there long enough to watch Maya do a full "transformation" {which looked horrible, not much difference from her human form} and Yuma and Kenji kept asking Kanae to "go go go" and everything but nope, just gonna keep watching and not run. [/spoiler] Sadly, with that ending, i felt like i wasted 2 hrs watching this show, i'd definitely not recommend it.

A bit derivative, especially if you've seen enough 2000s J-horror, but still a spooky chiller nonetheless.