Director/Screenwriter/Score: Saku Sakamoto Duration : 1:14:51 Genre : Horror/Fantasy/Thriller Streaming : Hidive Starring : Kana Hanazawa/Ayano Shiramoto/Yosuke Ito
“You don’t accept that death means salvation ?”
Summary :It opens up in what looks like a mental hospital . Looks like a mysterious disease is spreading . A nurse is murdered by a patient suffering from bad hallucinations … that may not be hallucinations . Then the patient themselves gets killed by a monster . Next we follow a young woman named Rin Shiida . You see she’s in a bit of a difficult situation , she is living in an apartment building that’s more than a little run down and filled with creepy stuff . The place seems to be messing with her mind as she struggles to sleep and seems to be hallucinating as well . Rin meets a young girl named Nasuha and this Nasuha tells her of a Savior and how they may be tied to the mysterious events around the apartment building . Oh hey , there’s a pretty moth !
Review : So full disclosure , I accidentally watched the movie in this series made after this before this one so that is probably coloring how I see things . That being said , both films are a trip so I didn’t feel like watching them in this order really spoiled anything for me . Let’s start with the positives , there’s plenty of creepy imagery , the score is great , the acting is good , and I can feel the effort behind every frame . Some negatives … well the pseudo 3d in the film doesn’t work all that great and can be a bit distracting and I’m not crazy about one or two of the plot points . Overall though , I enjoyed the movie and would recommend it to anyone with a taste for the weird .
Recommendations : Books
- The Feast of Amrita (2023)
- Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
- Dark City (1998)
- Bug (2006)
- Event Horizon (1997)
Songs
- Steven – Alice Cooper
- Brain Damage – Pink Floyd
- Down with the Sickness – Disturbed
- Halls of Illusions – Insane Clown Posse
- One More Soul to the Call – Akira Yamaoka
Books
- The Nest by Gregory A. Douglas
- Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz
- Haunted Mesa by Louis L’Amour
- The Box Man by Kobo Abe
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Lesson : Never trust a red moth .
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