Reincarnation (aka
Rinne) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by
Takashi Shimizu. Preceded by
Infection (
Kansen) and
Premonition (
Yogen),
Reincarnation is the third film in producer Takashige Ichise's six part J-Horror Theater series.
The plot is thus: 35 years ago, a series of murders took place in a hotel. A college professor had apparently gone mad and, as part of his wish to understand
reincarnation, filmed himself killing 11 of the hotel guests and employees, as well as his own children, before committing suicide. In the present day, horror movie director Matsumura decides to make a movie about the massacre. As the date of the shoot draws near, Nagisa Sugiura, the actress who is set to star as the professor's daughter, is haunted by the ghosts of the victims and visions of the killings. However, Nagisa is not the only person who is seeing these visions...
The film was part of the
After Dark Horrorfest film festival.
This film contains examples of:
- Break the Cutie: Poor, poor Nagisa.
- Creepy Child: The ghost of the professor's daughter.
- Creepy Doll: This film contains the creepiest damn one you may ever see.
- Demonic Possession
- Downer Ending: Several of the characters (main and supporting) are killed throughout the course of the film, and Nagisa is driven insane and ends up in a mental institution. To make matters worse, it is implied that the professor's personality takes over hers.
- Ghostly Goals
- Hey, It's That Guy!: The hotel maid is played by Takako Fuji, best known for portraying Kayako Saeki of the Ju On and The Grudge series'. It becomes ever more obvious when the maid, as a ghost, starts with the creepy, jerky movements, something that Fuji has a talent for.
- Infant Immortality: Very much averted.
- Jump Scare
- Kill The Cutie: That is, kill pretty much all of the cuties.
- Marionette Motion: The doll, and the hotel maid's ghost when she's hanging from the ceiling.
- Mind Screw
- My Truck Hates Me
- One-Scene Wonder: The hotel maid, as played by Takako Fuji, thanks to being one of the more unsettling ghosts in the film.
- Psychological Horror
- Reincarnation: Well, of course.
- The Reveal: Nagisa is not the reincarnation of the professor's daughter, as is initially believed... but of the professor himself.
- Serial Killer: The professor.
- Tomato Surprise: See The Reveal above.
- Trailers Always Spoil: Some of the jump scares are included in the trailer, including the one featuring the hotel maid's ghost.
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