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By Jenny Nixon
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Japanese teen horror creep-fest has language and scares.
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Re: Mind
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What's the Story?
In RE: MIND, 11 teenage girls wake up the day before high school graduation to find they've been kidnapped and restrained in their chairs at a long dining table with shackles affixed to their feet. One by one, the uniform-clad girls awaken, remove the red silk bags tied over their heads, and glance around in panicked disbelief. The room is full of creepy taxidermied animals, suits of armor, and strange noises abound. Episode by episode, the girls discuss their predicament and attempt to figure out who trapped them here, why they're being punished, and how they can make their escape.
Is It Any Good?
It takes a hot minute to get cooking, but once you're an episode or two in, new mysteries start unfurling, dark secrets come to light, and the panic and tension build up in a really addictive way. Japanese horror is a genre that loves a screaming schoolgirl, so if you're sensitive to shrieking you might find the first episode especially hard to take. But overall, Re: Mind is a respectably eerie and binge-worthy teen thriller.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how the series takes place all in one room. Can you think of other examples of media that use this same concept?
Discuss the "limited series" format used in Re: Mind. Did you enjoy seeing the story unfold over 13 short episodes, or might this have been better as a feature-length movie?
TV Details
- Premiere date : February 15, 2018
- Cast : Mirei Sasaki , Mei Higashimura , Kyoko Saito
- Network : Netflix
- Genre : Drama
- TV rating :
- Last updated : August 6, 2024
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