Product Details

• Actors: Rachael Murphy, Reshad Strik, Eli Roth, Henry Thomas, Carmen Chaplin
• Directors: Fruit Chan
• Writers: Brian Cox, Hideo Nakata, Hiroshi Takahashi
• Producers: Anant Singh, Brian Cox, Jeff Kirshbaum, Philip Lee
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: E1 Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2010
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003GOOZX0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,143 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Don't Look Up" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From Hideo Nakata, the creator of The Ring comes a new vision of terror – directed by acclaimed filmmaker Fruit Chan. Haunted by paranormal visions, director Marcus Reed travels to Romania to shoot a horror film based on an ancient curse. But while on location, a fierce supernatural force rips open a portal to the past and summons the wrath of evil spirits that terrorize the cast and crew. Starring Reshad Strik, Henry Thomas, Kevin Corrigan, Eli Roth and Lothaire Bluteau.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Visuals but a Confusing Story, July 29, 2010

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Compay (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Look Up (DVD)

Don't Look Up is a movie that offers quality cinematography, but isn't theater-quality because of plot holes and weak performances.

Director Fruit Chan gained a cult following thanks to the underground success of "Gaau Ji" (Dumplings), his short film on the "3 Extremes" DVD. I enjoyed his work on that film, and even though Dumplings wasn't an overt horror film, it was more chilling than this one. Chan makes for a visually pleasing movie, but he would have done better with a different story.

The marketing behind the movie is also misleading. The DVD cover states "From the creator of The Ring comes a new vision in terror." Only it's not new, it's a story that Hideo Nakata came up with for a movie he shot several years before The Ring. The original version of Don't Look Up wasn't especially popular, and the 2009 remake isn't remotely as scary as The Ring.

I definitely enjoyed Reshad Strik's performance in the Hills Have Eyes 2 (bearded young guy), but was disappointed with him in this film. As a psychologically troubled young film director, Strik overreacts being afraid to the point where it's almost comical. Eli Roth (Donny the Bear Jew from Inglourious Basterds) gets top billing in this film, but he gets only about a minute of actual screen time. Film veteran Kevin Corrigan is a welcome addition to the cast, as is the seriously hot Carmen Chaplin.

My biggest complaints about the film include the plot holes and use of too many subplots. The bottom line is that the movie is made more confusing than it had to be. There's a bit of gore for hardcore horror fans, though the CGI may disappoint some people. Nakata also recycled one idea involving a fly from this movie to The Ring. I also thought that the twist at the end was simply unnecessary.

Overall, I just didn't find it that scary. Chan did a good job, but the story just wasn't that great. It seems like they were hoping to capitalize on the popularity of The Ring by remaking a previous movie that wasn't very popular back in 1996. It's worth giving a watch, but I would suggest that you not buy the DVD until you give this one a Redbox rental first.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Many Dull Moments, August 1, 2010

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Cory T. Shaeffer "HockeyFanatic" (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Look Up [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

You can say whatever you want about any film and the actors in it - but without a good script and a decent plot, the cast's talents are wasted, no matter how good the actual performers are.

Many films these days boast similarities to "The Ring," but in reality they only borrow slightly from the cinematography and the eerie ghost storyline. In "Don't Look Up," a troubled young film director goes to Transylvania to the scene where an ancient movie was filmed many years ago. The set where the movie was filmed was supposedly haunted by the presence of a young girl (there's a big shocker).

The story seems decent enough, but it is not really elaborated on enough, and the main characters kind of fumble about in an attempt to....well....I still couldn't figure that one out. It is basically a movie made without much of a point or much direction. The "scary" scenes won't make you jump and the plot is so full of holes that the effects of any "twists" the writers included in the storyline just add to the confusion. And on top of that, there are some attempts at humor when not-so-vague comparisons are made to "Young Frankenstein," and they come at odd moments and the characters do a poor job of transitioning from funny to serious, making the film not only hard to understand, but also awkward.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of Those Truly Scary Movies Hard To Find I Think In The Horror Genre, August 14, 2011

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Umar M. Ahmad "ChefUman82" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Look Up (DVD)

Not that a truly scary movies always makes a good movie as far as horror movies go... However The execution of the movie is done just right so that it isn't too disgusting, while still disturbing you quite a bit. Hidieo Nakata (creator of The Ring and this film) must be really talented because even though it has the whole angry ghost in common this is nothing like The Ring and still very intriguing in it's own way... Very cool story not like the other movies that reel you in with a dramatic and nicely drawn cover just so you can end up watching another story-less, comedic but overall worthless, waste of time that lives you more unsatisfied than you were before the movie... from the cover it looks like another one of those silly b-horror titled that somehow was not categorized as such. Also from the cover it could be confused for a boring drama of sort but it isn't, Lol don't watch this alone, or if you do, keep your wits about you, some scenes catch you completely off-guard! Collectors Note: For $1.72 It Is An Absolute Bargain, Just Pay The $3 Shipping And Add This To Your Collection.