kowadan (2013) review

hi hi !! tonight i'll be doing my first movie review.

so, a few weeks ago i came across a few clips from a horror movie called Kowadan: Horror High School, and when i pulled up the full movie i found out that it's actually an anthology of horror stories.

honestly, none of the stories were that scary and i actually got bored and turned it off near the end. however, what originally convinced me to watch it was the story of yuna and crazy stalker girl, haru.

i'll summarize and show screenshots i took hehe~

so, yuna is a normal girl who lives with her mom and her adorable dog, seru. she meets a girl named haru on a message board and they decide to meet bc they both wanna be makeup artists. after talking in a cafe for a bit, they go to a park and haru does yuna's makeup for her. they become good friends and start hanging out, and haru gifts yuna with a makeup box, which yuna is hesitant to accept. just then, yuna is contacted by an old friend named maruko. this apparently makes haru mad and she knocks a cup of juice onto yuna.

haru tells yuna to go clean herself in the bathroom, and while yuna is gone she DELETES every contact except her own from yuna's phone. (also guys, isn't yuna's bear charm so cute??)

later on, maruko calls yuna and asks about some strange messages she received from her, but yuna hadn't sent them. (spoiler: it was haru trying to break yuna and maruko up). yuna also confronts haru about the missing contacts but haru says she did not do it. i think haru then asks to hang out, but yuna says she has "something important" and takes seru on a walk instead.

as yuna and seru are out on the walk, haru approaches them and she is NOT happy. i just took screenshots of the scene bc it was kinda funny to me, lol. (i'm sorry the photos are such bad quality...)

anyways, the following scene made me so mad. all i'm gonna say is that when yuna woke up the next morning, seru was no longer there. only the collar remained.

i assume yuna told her mother and her mother was so angry and wanted to call the cops. right then, haru called the house phone and yuna's mom was like "DO NOT CALL MY DAUGHTER!" then stormed out of the room. then haru called AGAIN and this time yuna picked up and was basically yelling "we're not friends anymore, don't contact me!"

HOWEVERRR!! haru said she wanted that makeup box back. so yuna went to the park to drop it off, but found a photograph of her MOTHER with a bloody red X on it. so she rushed home and found her mom.. and it was quite a graphic scene so i won't describe.

then haru enters the room and the story ends.

guys, i really need to stop watching all of these crazy movies. i need wholesome media in my life, but the crazy things always seem to initially catch my attention. "( – ⌓ – )

ok!! now for some bonus stuff bc i loved some of the pajama sets in this movie and wanted to share.

this shot comes from a scene in the first story, where a girl is housesitting and a strange man keeps ringing the doorbell asking for payment. (plot twist: he's DEAD!) anyways, i know it's kinda hard to see, but it's a pink zip up with white hearts on the inside of the hoodie, and some matching ruffle shorts. i need it.

and lastly, this shot is from a story where a girl gets out of bed for a trip to the restroom and when she comes back, she finds herself sleeping in the bed. this black and white striped pajama set is so cute and looks super comfy. i need this too.

okay, i should definitely wrap this essay of a post up bc i'm rambling about pajamas now. overall, i would give this anthology a 6/10. not scary to me in the slightest, but the storylines were interesting and acting was decent.

thank you so much for reading, luv uuuu~

- nara ❤︎