A newly minted family comprised of two widowed parents and their respective daughters from their first marriages are going on a camping vacation to force some much needed bonding. The younger (?) of the teen girls, Chisato, isn’t having any of it, of course, so there’s some choice teenage pouting and bickering going on.
That’s not going to be the family’s main problem, however, for they have stumbled into a cursed area for their little trip. There’s a village of eyeless people around the corner. Apparently, they’ve poked their own eyes out not out of hot love for the works of Lucio Fulci, but because there’s a local supernatural entity whose stare – if you meet it - first makes your eyes bleed, and then telekinetically twists your body around until it breaks. Adding insult to injury, victims killed this way turn into crappy zombies as well. True family fun ensues.
Hisatake Kikkawa’s urban legend-based Kune Kune is a fifty minute movie made for the home video market. It’s an expectedly low budget affair, with decent enough acting and effects, directed with straightforward professionalism more than true verve and style, but it is also a film that knows what it wants to do and does so in a straightforward and mostly effective manner.
There’s really no depth to it – unless you count the bits of family melodrama that don’t go anywhere interesting – but as a simple and direct telling of a simple and direct horror story, it is actually a pretty fun little movie that neither overstays its welcome nor seems to suffer from delusions of grandeur or importance.
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