Temple

Name: Temple
Genre: History, Horror
Released: September 1, 2017
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 23
Cast: Asahi Uchida, Brandon Sklenar, Logan Huffman, Naoto Takenaka, Natalia Warner

2017

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: September 1, 2017 | TV-MA

Starring: Asahi Uchida, Brandon Sklenar, Logan Huffman, Naoto Takenaka, Natalia Warner

Summary: Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.

Director: Michael Barrett

Genre(s): History, Horror

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 78 min

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James Berardinelli

Aug 31, 2017

Temple shows a better path for horror films to follow but the screenplay is too threadbare and the characters too poorly developed for it to really work. This is about 2/3 of a solid effort – unfortunately, the other 1/3 was never made. Read full review

Kimber Myers

Aug 31, 2017

The Temple has competent visuals with a few particularly nice shots that establish mood. However, its script is poorly structured and opaque, offering little insight into what is terrorizing the tourists and why. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Aug 31, 2017

Temple comes off as more of a half-hearted attempt at exploiting typical J-horror themes than an actual homage to the Japanese genre. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Aug 27, 2017

The film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Sep 1, 2017

This is the horror movie equivalent of canned Spam: you could have it so much better if you tried harder (or at all). Read full review

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Truth_of_Pisces

Feb 15, 2018

I watched this film at the recommendation of a friend. They warned me going in that isn't wasn't great, but it had B Horror charm to it. After sitting through this film, I have to disagree with my friend. There isn't a great deal of charm in this film at really, what here is, a thinlyI watched this film at the recommendation of a friend. They warned me going in that isn't wasn't great, but it had B Horror charm to it. After sitting through this film, I have to disagree with my friend. There isn't a great deal of charm in this film at really, what here is, a thinly written script, incredibly thin characters, and a story that ultimate doesn't really lead anywhere satisfying or otherwise.

The movie is about three American tourists visiting the Buddhist temples of Japan. The one they choose to visit is apparently haunted after several children went missing there and a monk was murdered decades before. Sounds like a pretty standard ghost story, but this film opts not to go that route, which ends up being to its detriment. The film doesn't seem to have a clear idea of the story it's trying to tell. The film is only seventy-eight minutes long and spend half of that time doing build up...but it really builds to ANYTHING. You get to meet this poorly developed characters, learn of the love triangle that's shoehorned in here, hear them recite blade dialogue, and you get to do this for the first forty-five minutes of the film. Things don't really kick off till the last half hour, but by then you probably won't really care. The atmosphere is never really set, the threat is left rather unclear- which is partially due to how damn dark this film is. Then there's this subplot about how the events your witnessing are being narrated by a man trapped in a literal plastic bag in a "sort-of-hospital" who seems to have suffered severe physical damage to his face, while being interviewed by what I assumed where cops.

Then film then ends abruptly with little to know questions answered, which ultimately leaves the film shrouded in ambiguity and with a greatly unfinished feel; it's like only 2/3 of a full movie was shot. I'm not sure what story the writer and/or director were trying to tell, but it's clear they had a rather vague idea that they never bothered to fully flesh out on paper. There are some parts of the film that are well shot, but there are no parts featuring engaging character moments or dialogue, and almost no scares or thrills. All we're left with is an idea of a story that never picks up any momentum and ends up nowhere. Take my advice, give this film a hard pass and watch The Ritual on Netflix.… Expand

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JLau

Jan 29, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Creepy guy tags along with his wildly-inappropriate female friend and her boyfriend finding temples in Japan, following a young boy tour guide who is obviously already dead.… Expand

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Iamcritical86

Apr 2, 2021

When I think of all the stupid decisions that the characters make and all the ridiculous scenarios that they get themselves into, it leaves one with ZERO sympathy for any of the "victims" in this film! Combine that with a plot that builds up to a whole lot of NOTHING, and it's no surpriseWhen I think of all the stupid decisions that the characters make and all the ridiculous scenarios that they get themselves into, it leaves one with ZERO sympathy for any of the "victims" in this film! Combine that with a plot that builds up to a whole lot of NOTHING, and it's no surprise that this film has received miserable reviews!… Expand

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