Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Tamami: The Baby's Curse (2008)

Tamami: The Baby's Curse (2008)

As you may know, the Rant favors horror movies of the seventies and one of our favorite '70's horror films is It's Alive. We also love the Omen. Now, fast forward thirty years ahead and we've grown to love movies world wide, including j-horror. A recent release in Japan and a hit a last springs festivals is Tamami: The Baby's Curse based on a manga story and mixing elements from these classics.

Also known as Akanbo Shojo, Tamami is directed by Yudai Yamaguchi and stars Nako Mizusawa, Goro Noguchi, Takumi Saito, Itsuji Itao and is based on the Manga Akanbo Shojo.

"Birthed in trauma, Yoko (Nako Mizusawa) is a fifteen-year-old orphan who suddenly discovers that she isn’t an abandoned child after all: her birth family are still alive and they want her back. She arrives at the family mansion to discover that her mother is insane, the housekeeper is a creepy old ghoul and her dad is a kindly, but distracted, professor of...we’re never quite sure. Oh, and there’s a crazed mutant baby in the attic that has the mind of an adult but the body of a killer infant with claws and fangs. And it’s not happy to have a big sister"

So here it is ... Tamami: The Baby's Curse





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