Back on my J-Horror bullshit, with a pair of movies.
Haunted School (1995): After breaking an idol/statue, some school kids and a teacher get trapped in the old schoolhouse, where a number of ghosts have become riled and active. There are a lot of classic school based ghosts here, and the effects are... varying, from some nice creature work to a very dodgy looking puppet, but it's all fun. (Certainly there is no belief that the kids will be actually hurt.) There is a lot of screaming and running around, and there's a convenient magic text that holds the answer... we aren't talking deep here, but we are being entertained.
Haunted School: The Curse of the Wood Spirit (2014): This movie starts with the death of two teenage school girls, so this isn't Family Horror... and indeed, aside from western naming, barely no relation to the previous movie, aside from being set at a school. A mysterious event happen many years ago, and now the spirits are restless. And there's a viral film crew trying to get a hit. It doesn't help that talking about strange things (as the kids do) evokes those strange things to happen (which is why the original title is Noroi no kotodama). Once set up the rest of the movie is just weird things happening. Ends rather unsatisfactorily, with a kind of explanation, but more of a "that happened, I guess".
First movie was better than the second. Ah well, what else is around?
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