An ambitious concept on a small sized budget.
The story follows Amanda, a psychiatrist, moving into a new house with her husband. However, the house is not normal; she feels something eerie stirring whenever she hears screams in the middle of the night. It seems there are ghosts lurking, but she is the only one who can hear them. Is she crazy? Is she not? The film dribbles with this question, leading to highly unexpected territory throughout.
At first, it…
John Cairn’s new film Effigy evokes an unnerving yet reminiscing feeling of surrealistic and experimental films like the works of David Lynch and Under the Skin.
The film follows a foreign translator Catherine, played by Camille Stahl, as she lives in the isolated city of metropolitan Tokyo. Her life takes a dark turn when she encounters an enigmatic client who demands a translation. From that moment, the line between reality and imagination begins to blur, revealing Catherine’s inner depravity.
Effigy…
Don’t let the title fool you.
As a horror fan always on the lookout for something fresh, I was pleasantly surprised by how a seemingly ridiculous premise—one that Quentin Tarantino might conjure—can turn out to be a passionate and moving take on the zombie genre.
Set in a rural area of Japan, the story follows Sakura, a schoolgirl with dreams of living abroad. Her world is turned upside down when an unknown and devastating pandemic transforms the men in her…
