More of a low-budget parody.
Making remakes or ‘clones’ of the famous ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ in 2024 is a bad habit, but it seems they forgot to tell Japanese filmmakers about this. It is impossible to watch the movie “This Man” to the end without facepalming.
The film is based on a hoax of the same name that took place in the mid-2000s. Sociologist Andrea created a website that attracted thousands of people who thought they were all dreaming about the same person. Of course, this was all complete nonsense, but director Yujiro Amano found the concept interesting.
In the story, an epidemic of sorts breaks out in Japan: people dream of a man with a unibrow, and within days they are mysteriously murdered or commit suicide. Comparisons to the iconic American Freddy Krueger franchise are obvious in concept, but not in style. Horror generally takes its time to scare you.
It starts off as a saccharine love story, and after a mystical but very quickly shown death we are treated to a painfully long boring conversation between two detectives in an elevator discussing candy. And the whole of ‘This Man’ is essentially like that: 20 minutes of boring dialogue, 15 seconds of bloody murder, and so on in a circle. Even the local Freddy looks more like a clown than a monster.
A short man with a huge unibrow, played by an actor in a crappy balding wig. The makeup and hair look like a bad Hollywood costume. And the repeated sound that signals his approach is a “menacing” laugh, resembling a cackle. And this miracle has the power to kill millions of people? I won’t believe it for the life of me.
Source: Popcorn News
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