sarkara Let me start by saying that it is not in the same league as Grudge or Ring. However, don't let that deter you from enjoying this refreshing supernatural thriller. The concept is a welcome change from the moved-into-a-new-home-and-kids-see-ghosts-adults-don't-see American horror movies. It is also not one of those teen-slasher-horrors where the teens get their heads cut off while having sex with silicon-implanted beauties. Actually it is not about any ghost at all. It is about an idea... An idea that information is strewn across time and some gifted individuals may gain access to the information that lies ahead in time. I won't spoil the fun by going any more in the story. You won't regret watching this movie as long as you have an open mind and reasonable expectations.

Cihan "Sean Victorydawn" Vercan (CihanVercan) Skillfully edited and highly tensioned, Yogen is one every so often discussed psycho-horror. It's been produced from the idea of the same titled Japanese comic book of 1950s' and follows the storyline of a solid Japanese novel from the same decade. The comic book creates a heroic theme out of a psychic family man who saves his family from a traffic accident, while the novel focuses on precognitive newspaper delusions seen by ordinary people.In the opening scene, giving a little clue of the main idea, we're being introduced to a middle-aged female victim of a paranormal incident taken from a newspaper article. She is being tested over her newly acquired supernatural skills at an university research laboratory. The second scene, where main characters are introduced, has the heart-wrenching traffic accident that gives cause for a chain of more alike accidents. The common trait of each accident is that they both have precognitive warnings to their survivors. The survivors of this first accident were parents to a 5-year-old singleton, who got killed in the accident. To their surprise their daughter has been the only vein that holds them together. Atfer the death of their daughter they get parted. They both keep receiving precognitive warnings for next alike accidents of their colleagues, disciples, friends and relatives.Over the last few years we've seen likes of this idea in Hollywood. With Sandra Bullock, also with Nicolas Cage there were either action or drama based films displayed. Among all, Yogen has the most influential message: Everyone has tremendous abilities hidden inside that might become surfaced once in a while for everyone. But we're not born to behave like angels or daemons. To have psychic skills is no means of becoming stronger or wiser. Uncontrolled power is not power at all, and we're not born to have such powers.With extreme usage of melodrama and surrealist pen-portraits, Yogen is a one-way ticket for travelling into a metaphysical world of limitless secrets, symbols, dreams and intuition where time has lost its permanence.

Scarecrow-88 A newspaper from beyond foretells the fate of others to schoolteacher Hideki(Hiroshi Mikami)who was an unfortunate eye-witness, along with wife Ayaka(Noriko Sakai), to his daughter's death in a car explosion. This fateful day occurred when their car was pulled over and another vehicle came crashing into it with the poor child's seat-buckle locked into her dress. He had received an ominous news article claiming his daughter's death while making a call in a phone booth. This scene sets up what lies in wait for our poor hero. The couple, divorced but very much still in love(..but after any death of a couple's child just looking into each other's face brings back that horrible memory of the explosion that killed their little girl), try to understand this gift of premonition..should Hideki, who receives prior knowledge of the casualties that beset others, assist in stopping fate's course? When Hideki researches others with the same gift of prophesy from the ominous newspaper, he uncovers the horrific truth of their own demise..the one who stops an act of death that is charted pay with their own health and life. When Hideki receives a newspaper foretelling his own ex-wife's death(..after they decide to become lovers again), should he interfere?Clever gimmick really works as a paranoia thriller as we follow the terrors of poor Hideki as he bears the knowledge of foretold deaths of those he knows. We also see that Hideki receives visits from those who perished..including his facially scarred daughter(..and a poor friend who dies in a terrible subway accident that tore her face off..he sees her after the fact)which really is jarring. The film works well as a portrait of agony as two parents remain haunted by their darling daughter's demise and how they couldn't stop it.

Apostic Found this thing in a used DVD bin. Since I hadn't heard of it (everybody knows for Grudges and Dark Waters, but not this one), I had low expectations. Being wrong about that was only the first of many satisfying surprises.I've seen plenty of weird tales, and sometimes it angers me when I can see the twists coming. But Premonition? I've never seen a movie where the predictable twists are just red herrings that distract from real twists. (It's sort of like how an eighties horror movie plays a fake scare, pause a beat, REAL SCARE.) Maybe some of the twists get silly toward the end, but come the end itself I found this movie much more satisfying than other new horror movies I've seen lately. I was impressed by some creative image framing during a dialog sequence near the beginning. I'd gladly recommend this movie to friends who might like a few low key surprises.