‘Best Wishes to All’ Proves J-Horror Can Still Find New Ways to Freak You Out

New Shudder release Best wishes to all begins with a nightmareAnd that sets the tone for everything that follows.

Nursing student, has never given a name and played by the instantly sympathetic Kotone Furukawa, dreams that she is again as a child Visit her grandparents– And wakes up, shouting after spotting something deeply alarming beyond a cracked open door. We soon realize that it was really more a flashback, in anticipation of what seems to be his first trip to their rural house since it happened.

And she goes alone. “By myself? “She whispers her parents with dismay when they call to tell her that they will be delayed to join her.

Our protagonist shakes the strange meeting, but strange vibrations degenerate even after what seems to be a perfectly pleasant family meeting … at least at the beginning. It is strange to be back in the sleeping village, where the neighbors – in particular a young man whom she has not seen for years – have surprised themselves to see her stop in her current life in the big city. There is a feeling of discomfort clinging to each framework, and the director and co-series Yûta Shimotsu carefully distributes the warning signs in such a way that neither the nurse nor the public can say if it is just “elderly people acting as the elderly” and “eccentric things of small town”, or something much more painful.

There is also the question of this piece of his nightmare, sealed behind the only locked door of the house.

Best wishes to all At Takashi Shimizu among its producers, a name fans of Japanese horror will instantly recognize. He created the Ju-on series, also known as The resentmentAnd had such property of the franchise, he even directed the American remake and his suite. With The ring,, The resentment was one of the titles in small groups of The craze of horror J from the early 2000sGrind terrors on cursed houses and ghosts with wide eyes with long black hair. Its involvement in Best wishes to all Engages in this tradition and also signals its support for the evolution of the genre of the 21st century – and this release certainly proves that there are still new dying ways of revealing horrible truths which are hidden in an ostensibly peaceful setting.

Like many out -of -competition horror films, Best wishes to all Tells his scares in social comments, although the American public may have to search after watching to understand the finest details of the cultural context. However, it also contains a more universal message on generational conflicts, as well as the traditions that remain stubbornly in place, despite a little offset over time.

If this review is read as frustrating and vague concerning exactly what the nurse discovers in grandmother and grandfather-sorry, but Best wishes to all is a best experienced film with the least knowledge than possible of its revelations. He does not enter the spoiler lawn to note that a film that came to my mind by watching it was Jordan Peele We; There are no deadly sosters here, but there is a similar exploration of a horrible truth which is completely tangled with the functioning of the world.

And like the characters in WeThe nurse takes off a layer that she can never replace. She is forced to reconcile not only with what she learns about her own family, but also so many other families, as well as knowledge that everyone already has a full awareness of something she has been kept in ignorance. At one point, someone even joking her if she still believes in Santa Claus.

Best wishes to all is decidedly dark; Instead of leaning in leap fears, he goes under your skin in a more philosophical but no longer terrible way. And it is also filled with body horror – an additional frightening development in a film whose characters are forced to wonder if they are happy or not. They all say yes, but in a world like theirs, how can we believe them?

Best wishes to all is streaming on chills.

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