Today is Friday and that means only one thing: FOUND FOOTAGE! 

For this installment we will be keeping focus not only on Japan but on the same filmmaker. Kōji Shiraishi is an incredibly talented and creative director, writer, and part-time actor who has brought us a wide range of films from Occult to tonight’s choice to Carved: The Slit Mouth Woman (Which he featured again in Senritsu Kaki File Kowasugi! File 01: Capture the Slit Mouth Woman). My favorite thing about this creator is that he does not over complicate things, the world just accommodates the weirdness in his films. In Occult the main character does not question that he has been touched by the divine, and the film is focused on what the divine could want and what it means to follow a divine order…even if that order causes mass casualties. 

Tonight’s film is Noroi: The Curse and it follows the last investigation of a famed paranormal investigator before he disappeared. Before you watch it’s important to understand that the world you’ll enter with Noroi is one where ghosts, psychics, demons, and game shows involving telepathy are all very real and commonplace. This makes the stakes in the film much greater as the mystery unravels itself, revealing a horrifying truth at its center and the film’s conclusion. So take a look below and enjoy:

(If you do not like the Youtube link, the film is available on Shudder.)

And as an added bonus, here is Senritsu Kaki File Kowasugi! File 01: Capture the Slit Mouth Woman which is an anthology series by different directors sending the same team after different urban legends and ghost stories.