Movies, by nature, have a set time to run, and the conclusion must be reached, unless there's going to be a sequel. It isn't as psychological as the game is, but in playing the game, you've got plenty of time to explore the school.
This movie is not for the faint of heart and weak of stomach! I imagine that Tom Savini himself would turn away from the gore effects, with Mayu's guts all over the wall, Sakutaro's head being mashed into slop, and the blood that pours from Yoshikazu's mouth when he dies. Yoshikazu, the man with the hammer, is quite scary in this movie. In the anime, Yuuya (absent in this film) kills him. But his demise is different in each media. If you've played the game, you know how that ends. The actor who played Sakutaro Morishige captured his insanity perfectly, where Morishige keeps taking pictures of corpses he finds on the floor, while looking for Mayu. In the game, Naomi is attacked by a shadow ghost, while in the movie, she is attacked by ghost children you haunt the school. The infirmary scene, however, is different. Also, Satoshi's sister, Yuka, ends up being killed by Sachiko, one of several possible deaths for her in the game. In fact, some of the events in the movie mirror the game, with Naomi finding Seiko hanged in the bathroom, and finding out she did it while possessed by Sachiko. The movie does not stray far at all from the source material.
It starts much like the game, where the students of Kisaragi High School perform the "Sachiko Ever After" charm, which plunges the group into the darkened halls of Heavenly Host Elementary School, which was closed down and demolished after a series of grisly murders took place there. I will be talking about the first movie, Corpse Party. There are comic books, anime movies, a theme park attraction, and a movie. So what happens when a game made in Japan has a movie based on it which is also Japanese?Īs I mentioned in my article about the Corpse Party game series, Corpse Party is huge in Japan. Another thing to consider is most of these game franchises were created in Japan, with American and Canadian film studios making the movies. In fact, these days, you see more movies based on games than the other way around, especially when Acclaim was still in business during the 16-bit era. Then came Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, I could go on. movie had a few good things going for it, a few nods to the game series, otherwise, it was a title about and otherworldly dystopian world with little to do with the source material, and sadly, the bad outweighed the good. In one, you risk alienating the loyal fanbase that game has, or simply making a mockery of it.
In making a movie out of a video game, there is a lot of risk involved.