The J-Horror Virus
2023
95 minutes
Overview
How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.
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Top Cast
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tom Mes
Lindsay Nelson
Mari Asato
Masayuki Ochiai
Takashi Shimizu
Norio Tsuruta
Rie Ino'o
Shinya Tsukamoto
George Iida
Hiroshi Takahashi
Teruyoshi Ishii
Chiaki J. Konaka
Jasper Sharp
