Exactly one week after staying at a remote cabin, a group of Japanese teenagers all meet sudden inexplicable deaths. A cousin of one of the victims, reporter Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima), begins an investigation that leads to the discovery of a videotape containing hauntingly bizarre footage. Upon viewing the tape, Reiko .. Read more
| Starring | Nanako Matsushima, Sato Hitomi, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada |
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| Director | Hideo Nakata |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
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Film of the year so far! Imagine, say, My Life as a Dog, Ratcatcher, or even 400 Blows, one of those bittersweet portraits of lonely children bumping up against the hard knocks of parental neglect, abuse and poverty. Cross that kind of acute honesty and naturalism with an edgy near-the-knuckle horror movie – Near Dark, for instance, or Ringu. Now set this intriguing mutation in the suburbs of Stockholm during the depths of a Swedish winter. Let the Right One In is that movie, and it’ Read more
Based on "the" true story (so much more definitive than “a” true story, don’t you think?), The Haunting in Connecticut is cursed from the very start by associating scares with the US equivalent of Surrey. (Ironically the movie was shot hundreds of miles away in Manitoba.) If you somehow missed the 2002 Discovery Channel documentary about the case, you’ll need to know that this is the story a teenager stricken with cancer, enrolled in an experimental drug program, who... Read more