
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere. An odd young man is arrested near the scene of the latest murder, who has a strange effect on everyone who comes into contact with him. Detectiv... (Full plot summary below)
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A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere. An odd young man is arrested near the scene of the latest murder, who has a strange effect on everyone who comes into contact with him. Detective Takabe starts a series of interrogations to determine the man's connection with the killings.
Leave your thoughts about Cure.
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawAn existentialist serial killer film that plays like what Cohen's God Told Me To might look like were it written and directed by "Beat" Takeshi. |
| Jam! MoviesClaire BickleyThis is a movie that leaves one wondering just who it is who has been mesmerized. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerThe single best horror film I've seen this century. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThe scenes of utter nonsense (and there are many) are outweighed by those of genius, making Cure a relative standout in this budding genre. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA fascinating cinematic exercise which woozily suggests the fragile underpinnings of modern rational life by craftily employing genre conventions in unexpected ways. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreA fascinating artifact as well as a most engrossing thriller. |
| Globe and MailRay ConlogueCure has a cumulative power of horror which even seasoned filmgoers will not be able to resist. |
| Filmcritic.comJake EukerThe approach is not an especially deep one, and in Cure it's given more deliberation than it can bear. |
| SciFiNowJonathan HatfullThere's no escape from something that's always there and the film's morbid, doom-laden atmosphere will envelop you. |
| Little White LiesAnton Bitelan increasingly hallucinatory piece where murderousness is a disease spreading rapidly through the susceptible Japanese psyche. |