Watch Me. Australia/China 2006. Directed by Melanie Ansley.

Film student Tess has to team up with strange & creepy porn video dealer Taku, after people near them got killed one by one. It seems that an email attachment, a video clip called "Watch Me" has some dark powers beneath it. At first the victims see the red hair, before the scary walking corpse of a girl appears and kills in gruesome ways.

The Scopofile team did a very nice job with full-length film Crash Test few years ago, and this time the director Sam Voutas is producing and acting other lead role. Crash Test -producer Melanie Ansley directs with a rhythm that never gives up, and the atmosphere grows more and more creepy along the way. Of course, you have to forget everything you've learned from Ringu, Dark Water, Ju-On the Grudge...

Watching "Watch Me" is a hard task at first, since aren't we all fed up with white faced corpse girls with a long black hair, strange growls and crunching bones? OK, "Watch Me" features a corpse girl with a long RED hair but the familiar storyline and shock scenes are still there. But after a while Melanie Ansley proves you wrong, because "Watch Me" is actually almost as effective as, say, Ringu when you saw it first time, especially if you missed the hype and spoilers.

Frances Marrington and Sam Voutas as Tess and Taku deliver a fine, realistic performances that add more to the overall feel. The camera work doesn't really bring anything new to the field, but that is also the strength of it. Stylish angles, familiar and traditional camera movements are in their own exact place. And no shakiness, which is delightful in the microcinema genre.

This film is scary piece of microcinema with believable characters, tension, shocks and blood. Everything is handled so well, that I can't really say any fault except the one that probably turns some people away from it: "Watch Me" reminds a LOT of Asian horror films over the past few years. But that's how the filmmakers wanted it to be. So there's not a lot to whine about, after all.