8/23/2005

I watched The Exorcist at age 12 thanks to some hippy relatives that thought it was ok for my developement as a young adult. They also let me watched Eraserhead at the same age. An enlightning experience if you ask me. Just to say that i know the effects an efficient horror movie can have on you. Until 16 i couldn’t sleep in a bedroom with a similar layout as the one in The Exorcist.
The next heavily promoted horror japanese flick is Noroi ! Noroi means cursing and the movie’s tagline, everybody dies kinda gives the plot away.
Anyway there are posters for Noroi all over the subway network right now. That’s probably why the movie is shot in dv, they blew the budget on promotional stuff.
Now the thing in Japan is that everybody believes in ghosts. The basic question is not “do you believe in ghosts ?” but “have you ever had an experience with a ghost ?”. And a lot of japanese people have actually.
To prove my point just check the prices of apartements located next to cemetaries. Those are the cheapest in the country. You can make good deals cause some of the locations are real nice. Take the gaijin cemetary in Yokohama for example, it’s on the best part of town, on a hill with a view on the whole city. Now maybe because it’s a gaijin only cemetary it doesn’t apply, us white barbarians probably don’t have the spiritual material that makes good ghosts. Plus gaijin ghosts can easily be bribed with booze and whores, japanese ghosts seek true redemption.
Anyway here’s the nifty flash site for Noroi and since it’s all flash i’ll let you find the trailer yourself. The navigations menu is billingual so i shouldn’t be too hard.
Careful though it looks like they put the picture of a naked guy on left side of the trailer section.