"Hide and go kill" is a Japanese movie that tells the story of a strange online game that takes a turn to the dark when more and more participants begin to disappear or experience strange occurrences. They start to be haunted by a mysterious lady and no one can make a sense out of it.
In many aspects, this film seems to be your average Horror title. Kids get haunted by ghosts, people randomly disappear or get killed and all that because of some strange curse of unknown origins. And indeed the plot starts quite decently with a fitting atmosphere and some outsiders in school that you can easily build empathy for. I have to say that I like the general idea of an internet game gone wrong, it proved in several other movies to be a promising element. However, not only is the structure of the movie strange and the different parts don't seem to be very tightly connected, the story also doesn't make much sense. The end of the movie wants you to think that all of this has also a more metaphoric meaning that is hiding behind the cruel events but it is so badly built up that I didn't feel taken seriously.
All in all this is not a great horror movie. It shares some classical elements with many other films out of the genre, but it is clearly missing a more plausible and stringent plot to not only provide a decent surface.
In many aspects, this film seems to be your average Horror title. Kids get haunted by ghosts, people randomly disappear or get killed and all that because of some strange curse of unknown origins. And indeed the plot starts quite decently with a fitting atmosphere and some outsiders in school that you can easily build empathy for. I have to say that I like the general idea of an internet game gone wrong, it proved in several other movies to be a promising element. However, not only is the structure of the movie strange and the different parts don't seem to be very tightly connected, the story also doesn't make much sense. The end of the movie wants you to think that all of this has also a more metaphoric meaning that is hiding behind the cruel events but it is so badly built up that I didn't feel taken seriously.
All in all this is not a great horror movie. It shares some classical elements with many other films out of the genre, but it is clearly missing a more plausible and stringent plot to not only provide a decent surface.