The J-Horror Virus

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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.

Genere: Horror, Documentario

Cast: 黒沢清, Tom Mes, Lindsay Nelson, 安里麻里, 落合正幸, 清水崇, 鶴田法男, 伊野尾理枝, 塚本晋也, 飯田譲治, 高橋洋, 石井てるよし, 小中千昭