
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.... (Full plot summary below)
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Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
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| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliTemple shows a better path for horror films to follow but the screenplay is too threadbare and the characters too poorly developed for it to really work. This is about 2/3 of a solid effort – unfortunately, the other 1/3 was never made. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyThe movie gets lost in a thicket of horror-movie cliches. Heroes wandering off at just the wrong moment to empty their bladders. Too-dark scenes, lit entirely by bouncing flashlights. |
| Daily DeadHeather WixsonTemple falls apart repeatedly throughout its 78-minute running time, with a story that feels truncated, characters that never really make any sort of impact, and a few "twists" that really aren't twists at all. |
| Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersThe Temple has competent visuals with a few particularly nice shots that establish mood. However, its script is poorly structured and opaque, offering little insight into what is terrorizing the tourists and why. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweTemple comes off as more of a half-hearted attempt at exploiting typical J-horror themes than an actual homage to the Japanese genre. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezThe film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThis is the horror movie equivalent of canned Spam: you could have it so much better if you tried harder (or at all). |
| User ReviewAutumn MThe concept of the movie was promising and the cast, especially the child actor, pulled their roles off well. However, the story itself was really disappointing. You spend 60 minutes building up to the actual horror and then the last 18 minutes feels really rushed. It felt like they ran out of money and needed to wrap it up quickly. Unexplained (and unneccesary) twists, the extreme dark during the most important scenes, and an ending to one of the characters stories that just outright doesn't make sense. |
| User ReviewTom KHad more hope for this as I went into it without reading reviews. That was a mistake, it's bland to average with no real substance, seems like the writer didn't know all that much about Yokai or Yurei mythos from Japan. |
| User ReviewNicki MI liked it being set in Japan, and for unknowns the acting was decent, plus the Japanese cast were good, but the ending is very confusing and didn't tie up properly with a lot left unanswered. The little Japanese boy was genuinely creepy. Could have been much better than it ended up being. |