This found footage movie is very well worth a watch if you can deal with the pretty traumatic central theme of youth suicide and do not expect to play too much by standard horror tropes. Much less sensationalist than other movies that have tried to turn Aokigahara into a massive haunted house, the thoughtfulness of the interviews and carefulness of the direction (not to mention fairly strong performances by our leads) gives it a wholly different disquieting feeling than you might expect.
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We come at least the final story, about a caving expedition that goes wrong and the personal impact of it. Rounding out the collection is the Epilogue which fills in one gap while reminding us the themes of the collection.
A small acting troupe is launching a play in an old disco hall. Dripping water sends one of the crew up to investigate where he discovers something otherworldly. The most meta of the stories, and one of my favorites though the ending might irk some.
A luxury yacht adrift at sea. When a fisherman volunteers to help see the craft back to port, he encounters the darkness which left it abandoned in the first place.
A fairly satisfying horror story about a quick sailboat excursion brushing up against something darker. It spends little time on speculation and more on the social awkwardness of the situation, which is perhaps what makes it work so well.
Hiroyuki is a miserable man. Miserable in his life. Miserable to be around. A fisherman, Hiroyuki is abusive to his son and his wife. Though successful in catching eels, he feels trapped by his family. One day he wakes up and his wife is gone and he feels a strange fear of getting back out on the water.
On why having shrew-wives and shitty moms does not equate adding women to your horror, basically. A rant in brief…
The most damning praise I can offer for Jurassic World: Rebirth is that I did not hate it. It does an ok job of continuing the world building from previous films and gets quite a few things right. Those things are often buried and entangled in a lot of errors that give a sense of wild mix of ideas being pressed together. The resulting “soup” is sometimes strange and confusing in its ingredients. It is nearly better to think of it as two separate movies that just happened to be playing at the same time.