The Japanese horror boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, spawned in large part by Hideo Nakata’s Ring, gets the spotlight in the upcoming documentary The J-Horror Virus.
Check out the trailer below, first shared by Fangoria earlier today.
From Sarah Appleton and Jasper Sharp, The J-Horror Virus is said to be a “feature-length documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of made-in-Japan supernatural chillers that seeped into the global consciousness at the turn of the millennium, films featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology again a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay.”
The synopsis continues, “From its origins in Teruyoshi Ishii’s 1988 fake documentary Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and Norio Tsuruta’s seminal Scary True Stories (1991/92) straight-to-video series, through such key titles as Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse (2001) and Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), critics and the films’ makers reflect on how the bleak dystopic visions and unsettling atmospheres that made these works so unique infiltrated their way across the world.”
Interview subjects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure), Shin’ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man), Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On), Masayuki Ochiai (Infection) and Mari Asato (Fatal Frame), plus actors Rie Inoo (Ring) and Takako Fuji (Ju-On).
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