Video game films are notoriously bad, right? Ranging from downright awful like House of the Dead, to passable (the first Resident Evil film), to "This is a masterpiece compared to other video game films," such as the first Silent Hill movie. If we're being honest, none of them are good. They're just not. Too many liberties are taken with the plots and I know people say thing like, "Well, if they followed everything that happened in the game, you would already know what's going to happen in the movie." So? I like what happened in the game, I want to see that storyline the way it was. Why make a movie out of a game if you're just going to change everything anyway, instead of just making your damn movie and naming it something else? I'll tell you why. $$$. They're cashing in on the name. They don't care about the fans.
Now, Corpse Party may have the worst special effects I've seen in recent history, and maybe the acting isn't the best, and yeah, they cut out the creepiest part of the game (SPOILERS: playing as Yuka and thinking you should be running from Morishige when you should really be running away from Kizami), however, it does a really good job of following the basic plot of the story and I love that they included snippets from the game's soundtrack.
In Corpse Party, a group of friends perform a ritual before one of them moves away, as a nice gesture to cement their friendship. Only they kind of screw it up, just a little bit, and they end up in an old, rundown school that's haunted by some vengeful spirits. I watched the movie on Youtube (it seems to have been removed) and then bought it on Amazon, so if you're interested, you can find it there.
I recommend the movie, but more than that, I recommend the game. Don't let the graphics fool you, the game is genuinely unsettling, between the soundtrack, the story and the victim's memoirs, it's an experience I'll never forget. Corpse Party is available on Steam, PSP and 3DS.
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