Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

GOTH: LOVE OF DEATH is the film adaptation of a popular Japanese manga comic. It concerns a couple of high school outcasts who team up to investigate a series of bizarre murders perpetrated by a serial killer who enjoys cutting the hands off his female victims. Before long the twosome are getting far too close to the murderer and may find themselves the next victims.The set-up of this low budget thriller is pretty neat but sadly the execution is lacking throughout. This is a slow, somewhat arty production that fails to excite much in the way of interest in the viewer. Despite the murderous premise, the danger level is low throughout, and it's also a surprisingly tame film given the subject matter.The best thing about this film is the characterisation; it's nice to have such a pair of weird, non-mainstream characters in the central roles and the actors do well with their parts. Rin Takanashi is particularly effective as the kooky, white-skinned goth girl and would later go on to find success in the likes of KILLERS. It's just a shame that the story becomes less and less interesting as it goes on, leading to an entirely unmemorable climax.

The Main Characters are "deader" than the murder victims, and the story is just as vapid. The murder victims are staged by the killer in what is described as "artistic", and I agree, which makes them more exciting than the actual living characters in the film who are by far some of the most unsympathetic, disengaging, unemotional, boring people to grace the screen. Now on a more positive note, the Art Direction makes the film watchable, but the pretty Actress is what's keeping me watching. Other than that, this movie has nothing to offer, and is like a nicely wrapped box with a polished stone inside. Don't waste your time unless you are one of the following: A film student who must watch everything, A film critic who must watch everything, Someone who enjoys watching paint dry, or an unlucky fool. Of course I'm joking because I'd be the unlucky fool.

I loved the concept hated the movie.This movie s concept can go toe-to-toe with twilight or any other hunger games teen movie any day. But they had to Asian it up, and it lost me. Two Wanna be vampire outcast kids team up to catch a serial killer. Awesome but no it's a cool dude and a weird girl who doesn't stick out because she doesn't wear black nail polish or lipstick. She actually wears her school uniform correctly and long black hair. If this was filmed in the states she' be the blonde haired blue eyed girl from the rite side of the tracks. So in true Asian fashion they stumble across a clue to the killer and begin their odyssey. If you've seen other Asian films like the Housemaid, and I see evil you know how this will end it won't be pretty. Anyhoo the opening scene where they discover the body is pure cinema gold and will be copied by everyone.

for all the disappointed people around here, this is an adaptation of a manga series by Otsuichi. And... as most such adaptations, it's bound to be a little naive about the reality one expects to be portrayed in a movie. in my opinion, this was quite a good movie starring young actors. it has a decent amount of suspense, it has mystery and I didn't find a moment of it to be anticlimactic. The only thing that struck me as odd was the main characters' rooms. that made me laugh. that was a bad move. we might think there are no parents in this movie at all and the children roam freely with credit cards so they can buy weird stuff like knives, ropes, chains and other murder related paraphernalia just to keep them in a secret closet. oh come on, Japan!I liked the characters very much so I'll take the liberty of talking a bit about them. the girl: she maintains a Victorian Gothic aura around her even in broad daylight, her strange past and her unexplainable attraction for hanging ropes and playing suicide. the teenage Japanese boy is a typical depiction of horror mangas, he is a top student, mysterious,quiet and meditative, with a love for the morbid, a bit too mature for his age, and he reads Hp Lovecraft, an author that used too many tentacle references for his own good. these two meet, they are connected by the same attraction for death. they tease each other a bit and they quietly observe the murders around them. There is nothing more, nothing less. just the strange interaction between these two. morbid teenagers. these facts aside, the movie has a tranquility to it that few other have attained. it's like it's paced by a metronome.