I finished watching
Reincarnation, from Takashi Shimizu, the guy who did Ju-on. Not bad really, but not scary at all. It takes an awful lot from The Shining. Really it is Shimizu's 'remix' of The Shining, but it was too over-directed, too polished, and too over-the-top to be scary. Creepy dolls, creepy girls with long hair, haunted hotel, creepy 8 mm footage, and pretty arbitrary ghost attacks, it is nothing no one hasn't seen before, with plenty of loose plot threads. Also the inevitable ending goes on and on. I grew bored in the middle and never really regained interest because of the predictability of the story. I guess it wouldn't be bad to someone new to the genre and isn't familiarized with all the cliches. It is all very professionally staged with fairly high production values, so it might be worth giving a chance if you really dig Japanese horror, I might be a bit too hard on it because I was hoping for something with a bit more subtlety.