The film hobbles along with attempt after failed attempt boring its audience and wasting its young cast. In many cases, it feels as if the film is struggling desperately to reach some of the high marks other films of its ilk easily accomplish. Those qualities are rarely seen here in Alter Ego. He is a director with a distinct style, a direct pacing and an unnerving sense of horror and mood.
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He is most famously known for the Ju-On series which he followed to the States to direct as The Grudge. Takashi Shimizu is also among this list of visionaries. Directors such as Akihiro Higuchi, Takashi Miike, Hideo Nakata and many others are continuing to shape the future of horror and world cinema. Ringu is perhaps the best known of them, along with Kairo, Tomie, Versus and Audition. The J-Horror movement is responsible for some of today’s modern classics in horror. Paranoia and fear set in as they are picked of one-by-one. As the story continues, after the model witness a gruesome death, the characters begin to realize that the killer or killers can take the shape of any one of them or all of them. To spice things up, the monster’s targets comprise of a trio of beautiful young models and the photographer team as they set up their shoot at an old, abandoned school. This often results in the victim being twisted into excruciatingly painful shapes with screams of fear frozen on their faces. The plot of Alter Ego involves a mysterious force, supernatural or extraterrestrial or worse, that attacks its victims in the guise of the prey themselves.
The film feels made-for-TV with an underdeveloped, undercooked result, poor cinematography, half-baked plot and mediocre acting. To be fair, the Shimizu is listed as “supervising director” with the directing credits going to Issei Shibata. The film quality is poor, the effects are sub-par and the story is trite and bland. Alter Ego is instantly forgettable, a watered-down mess. This film first released in 2002 in Japan is finally making it to the States now in 2014. That master is director Takashi Shimizu, the maestro behind the Ju-On series and its U.S. A model shoot in an abandoned, old school turns horrific when death in the form of murderous dopplegangers begins to hunt down the models and the crew.Īlter Ego (A Conjuring School) is being released as a forgotten classic from a master of Japanese horror.
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