Eye Candy #222 - "Ghost Train"

Ghost Train: Another entry into the seemingly endless stream of Japanese New Horror films, which to date have given us films like Ringu and Ju-On. It shares the apparent single biggest plot device in the history of Japanese film: the spooky, long-haired Japanese ghost lady that wants to kill Japanese people (as opposed to the Americanized version where the spooky Japanese ghost lady wants to kill white people). The spooky ghost lady occupies a train station and kills those people who come in contact with her as she looks for her missing child. Soon a teenager, Nana, loses her younger sister to the ghost lady and vows to find out what's going on. Fairly pedestrian for the bulk of the film (not that it didn't have some spooky parts, it just wasn't anything we haven't seen before), but the ending is a good-sized swerve into a whole other plot (i.e. the ghost lady isn't the only thing going on underground on the metro; unfortunately it's largely unexplained exactly WHAT else there is, though you do get to see it). But many of the same tropes are here as in those earlier films (revenge, horrific death, etc.) that we've seen done before (and better). Woodchuck sez, "For fans of the genre."