Chime (2024) User Reviews

Powerful short horror

[alain-kapel5 · 8/10 · 10 May 2024]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest psychological horror is a masterful exercise in suspense and terror.

Provided you can get onboard with its enigmatic (and nearly incomprehensible) plot, there's much to enjoy here for fans of the director. The running time is short (only 45 minutes), making this something of a compact version of Kurosawa's usual, subtle horror filmmaking. There's a lot of atmosphere and intrigue present throughout, but little to no answers to some of the film's central questions.

While this is certainly a violent little film, it's not focused on gore, but rather its capability to disturb by mere suggestion. It's pretty great to see Kurosawa back at directing unsettling films that turn the mundane into terrifying, and Chime shows he's still got some interesting ideas to share with the rest of us.

Recommended.

Shocks as sharp as a knife

[DanTheMan2150AD · 7/10 · 11 June 2024]

Keeping its secrets guarded and living off the shocks of its knife-edge turns, Chime sees Kiyoshi Kurosawa covering more than familiar ground with plenty of desolate moodscapes, recognisable for anyone with even a cursory knowledge of his past output. However, there is something particularly chilling about the oppressive mundanity here, a mundanity to which Koichi Furuya's digital cinematography adds another layer of dread. It's a dreary madness that slowly begins seeping into the life of its character. Despite its skeletal form and brief runtime, the film ends on a fascinating rupture; the previously ambient evil becoming tangible shifts, terrifyingly, within the realm of possibility and the suggestion of this curse being made concrete becomes overbearing. Relishing in the awful psychological residues of violence while suggesting a lucid dream, the kind of fragmented nightmare you are grateful to wake up from but just as terrified to leave so unresolved.

DONT TRUST THE 6.8 IMDB

[f-84803-86744 · 1/10 · 2 June 2024]

Its soooo bad u will finish the movie and dont know anything or what happend or why does this happend there is so many Q that didnt answer in the movie.

The worst movie I have ever seen in my life. There is no story, no life, just slaughter for no reason. I am insulting to the mother of the bad movie. Even the questions they asked were not answered. A bad movie in every sense of the word, even the reviews. Believe me from the staff and no one is doing the work. This stranger told you that it was slaughtered for no reason and no news. May God bless the Burma neighborhood. Their head is the trumpet of the aunt of the amphibian, with the legs of a movie on YouTube called Tumbak, for the soul of lovers. Watch it. It is better than eggs. That bad thing was with you. The aunt of the amphibian has suffered a setback.

Give me back the 45 min its sooo waste of time.