Okay so the curse of this film is about the red shoes(yeah I know they are pink actually, but it's called the red shoes because it's symbolic of all the bloodshed it causes) draws women into taking it. Whoever first finds it, keeps it and gets the wonderful feeling of youth, but whoever else gets lured into the shoe's spell will get the urge to steals it and feel the power of youth and will die. As the movie progresses it shoes the origin of how it started, this comes from the flashback of the old era of Japan, when the happy Japanese girl with the red shoes was with a man and happy but the other women glaring, was wanting to steal the shoe and back in present time who ever steals the shoes away from someone over greed will end up dying. This is a pretty generic horror flick with ghost in it, and it depends way too much on the pop up scare for the scare factor which is okay I guess in some cases but it's just not that effective in this. You also don't care for the victims, especially the daughter because they are all pretty annoying and as heartless as it may seem, I really did not care if the daughter died. As a matter of fact I was hoping something bad happens to her cause she was the most annoying character throughout the whole film, well until it almost got to the end which was the only part that was a bit interesting, not original however. I could tell the director actually tried with the material he had, but he didn't manage to pull through, and the pop up scares are one thing but it also has way too many dream sequences to the point you get numb to it, plus the pop up scares are not scary and can be humorous sometimes. And there is some obvious plot holes that doesn't make any sense sometimes, nothing about this is effective and it just basically borrows a heck load off from other horror flicks. The cinematography was well done though, and brings out a bit of eerie atmosphere because of it. It would have been better if at least some of the twist and turns weren't so predictable, but despite that it's still better than a lot of American horror movies.
5/10
5/10