The J-Horror Virus

(2023)

Genres: Horror, Documentary

Year: 2023

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: Japan, United Kingdom

Director: Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp

Cast: 黒沢清, トム・メス, Lindsay Nelson, Мари Асато, Масаюки Отиаи, Такаси Симидзу, 鶴田法男, 伊野尾理枝, 塚本晋也, 飯田譲治

Plot

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.