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The J-Horror Virus (2023) English Subtitles

smdb00001810202395 min

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.

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smdb00001810 · 2023 · 95 min

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Subtitle Sampleeng · 01:32:23
01:32:23 · - The global impact of J-horror
has certainly been profound,
01:32:25 · but I don't mean in
just carbon copies
01:32:27 · of films featuring girls,
ghosts, with long black hair.
01:32:31 · But just in that sense
of atmosphere and dread
01:32:34 · I think is very much-- has
filtered into horror filmmaking
01:32:37 · from across the
globe, and that's

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