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.
Sarah Appleton
Director
Jasper Sharp
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tom Mes
Lindsay Nelson
Mari Asato
Masayuki Ochiai
Takashi Shimizu
Norio Tsuruta
Rie Ino'o
Shinya Tsukamoto
Killer Legends58%
In Search of Darkness74%
The Class of ‘9271%
Public Speaking70%
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe69%
In Search of Darkness: Part II77%
Maternal Instinct72%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
Doc of the Dead62%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Night Will Fall76%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
McQueen74%
Nail Bomber: Manhunt65%
The Up in Smoke Tour76%
Harmontown66%
The Captains63%
Narco Cultura70%
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story75%
