I was initially lured into watching the 2022 Japanese horror mystery "Ushikubi Village" (aka "Ox-Head Village") as I liked the movie's cover. Plus the fact that this was a Japanese horror movie that I had not already seen, nor actually heard about, also helped to make me want to sit down and watch it.
Writers Daisuke Hosaka and Takashi Shimizu just utterly failed to provide me with much of any entertainment here. First of all, the movie's pacing was so slow that it would put even a dead person to sleep. The narrative was so monotonous and slow paced that my attention span dwindled and my interest in the movie did the same with each passing minute. And the storyline was just pure rubbish. I literally had no clue about the point of this movie, because it made very little sense, and much less provided me with any sense of entertainment.
The acting performances in "Ushikubi Village" were fair enough, just a shame that the actors and actresses literally had nothing to work with here from writers Daisuke Hosaka and Takashi Shimizu, the latter also functioning as the movie's director.
Visually then you're not in for a particular treat here. There was nothing outstanding to be witnessed as the movie trotted on and on without having anything interesting to tell.
As much as I enjoy Asian horror, and the Japanese cinema definitely have a lot of great horror movies, then "Ushikubi Village" was just a swing and a miss. This is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this ordeal so you don't have to.
My rating of director Takashi Shimizu's 2022 movie "Ushikubi Village" lands on a two out of ten stars.
