Nitzan Havoc As always, I find myself baffled and near disgusted by the ratings here. True, Temple isn't a masterpiece, nor does it present itself assuming to be one. So what, any film that isn't a masterpiece deserves below 5? Do people who rate here know half a thing about Horror? Well, I do, which is far from saying I'm an expert, but after watching over 200 Horror films I can say that knowing half a thing about the genre is an achievement I've managed to unlock. Temple is not half as bad as the ratings make it seem.In a sense, Temple is a truly artistic and innovating effort by Horror fans for Horror fans. It takes the classic Asian ghost stories and attempts to combine them with many features of Hollywood slashers. The plot, the atmosphere, even the language is half English and half Japanese. So yes, it could have been done better, but most first attempts at innovation fail to conquer the top. Still, this collision of Asian and Slasher has created an interesting, compelling and at times quite scary result.The story is okay-ish. The pretty girl (who also acts rather well) goes on a field trip to study Japanese temples with her bashful and timid best friend (male, of course) and her stereotypically douchebag boyfriend. Is the love triangle surprising? No. Was it necessary? Absolutely not. And yet, it added some spice. The temple, as we soon find out, is guarded by a vengeful spirit. Cliché? Yes, but not only bad things become cliché over time.This film is a living breathing Easter egg for Horror fans. The ominous warnings not to go near the temple, the love triangle, the painfully stereotypical characters - all distinct features of Slashers; then, the terrifying spirit, the uncomfortable use of child characters, the sense of truly being haunted in and off screen - all distinct features of Asian Ghost Stories. Personally? I found it very rewarding.In summary - not a masterpiece, yet deserves way more credit than given here. Any Horror fan would find at least certain parts worth watching and have an overall enjoyable experience, in my opinion. Others would simply enjoy a fun, well made somewhat scary film to watch alone at night. Seriously, ignore all ratings and reviews, including mine. Give any film that catches your eye a test and a chance. Better to waste a few hours in life than miss out on a subjective gem.

Platypuschow So three friends travel to Japan and go visit a temple that all the locals warn them against going near. Folks never learn do they, if the locals say stay the hell away then *Drumroll* stay the hell away.Character development was spot on from the outset so I expected something a bit better. Instead the movie plods along up until the half way point and then turns to crap.It all falls apart to such an extent that it becomes almost unwatchable. Our heroes arrive at the titular temple and well I'm sure you can pretty much work that one out for yourself.The end has an ambiguous "Twist" but that does nothing to save the movie from its fate as a mediocre mess.The Good:Beginning is interesting enoughThe Bad:Loses steam at around the half way markUltimately is just an all round messThings I Learnt From This Movie:If folks listened to the warnings of the locals these movies might actually be betterA better title for this movie would have been Friendzone, scary stuff

TheLittleSongbird Saw 'Temple', being fond of adventure/horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to reviewing it.Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who hated 'Temple'. There is very little to like here, next to no redeeming qualities at all, and there is not much to add to what has already been said so well. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'Temple', so gave it a fair chance.'Temple' has only some quite stylish photography and beautiful scenery going for it, hence why it's not gotten the lowest possible score from me.However, 'Temple's' biggest problem is the story, or shall we say lack of it. It is paper thin, basically a short film stretched out to the point of interminability. One can mistake it understandably for not having a plot at all, or at least a discernible one. It takes forever to get going, and everything in the first half is uninteresting and too often adds nothing or serves no point. Second half is not much better, the un-scary and thoroughly predictable scares/horror elements are further undone by excessively loud and obvious sound effects and too dark lighting.It is only in the last 10-15 minutes where anything resembling a story appears. Unfortunately 'Temple' completely fails to execute even that right. The whole film is horrendously paced, with much of it being endlessly dull, the ending has the opposite problem of being incredibly rushed. It's also incredibly chaotic and confused, too many things left hanging in the air or vague. Direction is going through the motions like, while the script is childish, leaden and awkward. The characters are basically unsubtle and not particularly tasteful stereotypes and 'Temple' goes well overboard on the purposeful unlikeability that it is impossible to root for them. The acting is poor, with Natalia Warner being atrocious. Overall, really bad, compensated solely by the photography and the scenery with the story destroying any hopes of the film being halfway decent. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Gladius77-1 Having watched this movie, I'm pretty sure they took the script for Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows and edited it to take place in Japan so the cast and crew could take a vacation. This movie replaced some of Book of Shadows annoying characters with padding shots of walking around Japan, so I'm on the fence for which is worse.They seriously had to pad this out to 1:17. I can't imagine what was cut out.