Slow Burn At Its Best
If you're out for a horror movie with plenty of jump scares, look elsewhere.Unlike your typical horror movie, supernatural beings don't get "accidentally" summoned by a bunch of irresponsible drunken teenagers, there's no cringey "I'll be back" dialogues, no jump scares, no slamming furniture, flying objects and creaky floorboards, no adrenaline inducing score to keep you at the edge of your seat; just a clever blend of cultural folklore, metaphysics, pacing and build up.
Divided into six different acts, "Exhuma" tells the story of a shaman and a geomancer, who are recruited to help a rich family conduct an exhumation of their ancestral grave.
Act 1, introduces the audience to the leads, who they are, what they do, and slowly reel the audience in by placing an unpredictable twist at the end of each act, making the audience wonder and hunger for more. Just when you think that you're right, you couldn't be more wrong.
There are, however, some obvious loopholes in the film, which might have been cut for time ("Exhuma" has a runtime of 134mins) but those loopholes seem like forgettable side quests, that doesn't really affect the main storyline.
Everything is meticulously calculated, everyone knows very well what they are doing, everyone knows what they are getting into.... except the audience.
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Cringey Disaster
I sat through all 10 episodes of this cringey disaster, so that you don't have to.I understand that this is a short form series (each episode only runs for an average 8 mins) but the amount of cringe one has to sit through every episode is really off the roof!
Not only the main couple lacks chemistry, you can clearly tell that most of the actors are just reading the script from memory.
The scripting and editing is also very questionable: One minute the main lead is devastated having to deal with his family opposing his relationship with another man, and we suddenly cut to a G-rated bed scene??? Then there's also the awkward moments of product placement and mentions that (at times) goes on for a good 3-4mins and kills the show's pacing.
Unless you're in the mood to feel the cringe, I'd say avoid this one at all cost.
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Don't Let Your Curiosity Waste Your Time
The biggest mistake is to fuse, mash, and cramp more than half of the manga into a mere 4-hour miniseries.By condensing and mashing up so many integral arcs together, what essentially make "Yuyu Hakusho" the masterpiece that it is are all gone, stripped and simplified into a dull and boring show about four misfits with no common goals, trying to survive in every episode. You can tell that the cast really tried and did their best but the script itself was far too messed up to salvage.
With so much to tell and so little time to do so, "Yuyu Hakusho” is just another adaptation that tries hard to impress but fails horribly. Filled with rushed pacing, messy and questionable plot, and tons of loopholes, this is 4 hours of your life you will regret wasting.
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