Premonition(2004)
2004 · Norio Tsuruta · 95 min
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Horror
6.3138 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Premonition scares
There's a heavy, sinking feeling that builds slowly rather than jumping out at you, centered on the dread of knowing something terrible is coming and being unable to stop it. The scares come from unsettling images and quiet wrongness more than loud jolts, with long stretches of unease and grief hanging over everything. It leans supernatural, tied to fate and omens rather than a physical monster or killer, and it's more sad and haunting than shocking. This suits someone who wants a mood piece about loss and inevitability rather than a thrill ride.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Premonition rates psychological 5/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 65 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow-building dread that surfaces in unsettling waves before tightening into a tense, unrelenting final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5.
How scary is Premonition?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Premonition rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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