[Screen Daily]

It’s difficult to make a guy in a giant furry rabbit suit scary, but almost ten years after the first theatrical instalment of the Ju-on (Grudge) horror film franchise put his name on the genre map, director Takashi Shimizu does just that in his latest 3D psycho-horror feature. Tormented 3D (Rabitto Horaa) makes a fairly good stab at keeping us guessing how much of what we’re seeing is real and how much is the delusional fantasy world of one or more characters. As well as delivering frights aplenty, the film will appeal to 3D geeks, as it uses the format originally – especially in a film-within-the-film sequence set in a cinema. …

Arthouse cinematographer Chris Doyle gives the 3D camerawork a painterly quality, perhaps most impressive in the spiral staircase motif that dominates the shock ending, and the austere production design of the traditional Japanese house where the family lives stresses the confinement and repression of this place of narrow corners, sliding screens, hidden recesses and frosted glass windows.

See the full review here: http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/tormented-3d/5031849.article