Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
22 December 1989, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
20 March 1956, Yokohama, Japan
1968, Sakai, Japan
25 January 1970, Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
August 6, 1986 in Yamagata, Japan
August 27, 1947 in Tokyo, Japan
13 May 1987, Tokyo, Japan
August 31, 2017
It fails to provide any real scares and adheres to well-worn tropes without a fresh twist.
August 31, 2017
Temple is an endurance test to see how much of nothing a viewer can take before daydreaming, playing a cell phone game, or nodding off.
August 31, 2017
Temple comes off as more of a half-hearted attempt at exploiting typical J-horror themes than an actual homage to the Japanese genre.
August 27, 2017
The film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic.
August 31, 2017
Problems aside, it's refreshing to stumble on a film of this genre that doesn't fall under the "standard order horror" umbrella where an avalanche of jump scares replaces attempts to generate a pervasive sense of unease.
