SEVEN OF JAPAN’S MUST-SEE HORRIFIC AND TERRIFYING FILMS COME TO ARROW
This month exclusively streaming on ARROW in the UK, seven seriously scary films from the wave of horror and mystery that emerged in Japan at the turn of the millennium, collectively labelled as ‘J-Horror’ featuring childhood trauma, urban legends, high school hysteria, deadly curses and folklore demons!
The films included in the J-Horror Rising collection are Shikoku, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Inugami, St. John’s Wort, Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, Noroi: The Curse, and Persona.
Vengeful ghosts returning from beyond the grave, young women with supernatural abilities, investigative narratives, a terror of technology, and an ominous aura of urban alienation and isolation mark the wave of horror and mystery films that emerged in Japan at the turn of the millennium, collectively labelled as “J-Horror”. J-Horror Rising presents seven of the genre’s most distinctive titles.
CARVED: THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman features the titular predatory murderess drawn from urban legend, where it turns out home isn’t the safest place for her potential child victims in this disturbing supernatural horror.
INUGAMI
A teacher from Tokyo finds himself drawn to a local papermaker, only to find himself the subject of some hostility from her extended family, who have long ties to the region and are rumoured to be the descendants of the guardians of ancient evil canine spirits.
ISOLA: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY GIRL
The aftermath of the devastating Kobe Earthquake of 1995 creates fissures in the already fractured mind of a high-school girl in Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, allowing an unwelcome intruder to set up home in her head and leaving a volunteer worker with psychic powers to determine which of her personas is the fake one.
NOROI: THE CURSE
The chilling Noroi: The Curse adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon.
SHIKOKU
In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl’s mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region’s famous pilgrimage – but why is she walking backwards?
ST. JOHN’S WORT
Megumi Okina (Ju-On: The Grudge) plays the art designer for a horror-themed videogame in the innovative St. John’s Wort, who is forced to confront her childhood traumas when her colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from the creepy gothic mansion she has inherited from her estranged artist father.
PERSONA
A new craze for wearing ceramic masks sweeps the students of a high school, unleashing a wave of anonymous juvenile delinquency amongst the literal fashion-victims of Persona, which boasts early appearances from Battle Royale stars Tatsuya Fujiwara and Chiaki Kuriyama.
J-Horror Rising will be available on ARROW and in Limited Edition Blu-Ray from 28th October. Find the full October press release and synopsis HERE.
OCTOBER RELEASE CALENDAR
From October 4
Sator – 2021
Come True – 2020
From October 11
Broadcast Signal Intrusion – 2022
Rent-A-Pal – 2020
From October 18
Slumber Party Massacre – 2021
King Knight – 2022
From October 25
Werewolf – 2020
We Forgot About The Zombies – 2022
Blood Shed – 2017
Strange Creatures – 2024
From October 28
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman – 2007
Inugami – 2001
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl – 2000
Noroi: The Curse – 2005
Shikoku – 1999
St. John’s Wort – 2001
Persona – 2000
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