Review – Legend of Ogre

After all these years of sitting through crappy, low-budget knock-offs of popular U.S. horror movies, it’s oddly comforting to know that the “idiot with a video camera” school of film-making isn’t confined by national borders. This Japanese video production has some of the standard ghost story elements, but it’s so cheap and ineptly put together that it’s impossible to take seriously. Of course it doesn’t help that the “ogre” turns out to be the ghost of a small girl in a pink wig. Perhaps it would be really spooky in its native land, but around these parts the common reaction to such a thing would be to snatch its wig off and punt it over the hedge. Even the translation is bad. Whatever the Japanese word for the monster is, it isn’t accurate to translate it as “ogre.” And much of the rest of the conversion to English is similarly awkward. At least the stiffness fit well with the overall quality of the production. See if desperate