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Everything I like about this film + Recommend similar movies?


I've been looking for movies that are exactly as frightening as this film.

And exactly what is scary about this movie?

The way the entire film is directed makes the camera work help exacerbate fear to make the film break through fiction and enter reality.

This horror mockumentary is handled so well, it gives goosebumps. It outweighs the actual horrifying truth by placing the watcher into the Shoes of the main character stumbling across a mystery..

Nobody actually believes there's a darker force at work beneath the shades of reality. Until you start to dig into the mystery, with the eyeglass of a detective.. Kobayashi can only use his camera to prove what he's saying.. And what he's got on tape is quite unique. He needs to dig deeper and figure out what he's got in his hands. And that's when the traumatizing reality that there really 'is' something in the dark.. and starts manifesting itself like an inescapable fate.. And your subconscious shines the light on the horrifying truth that you have just involuntarily stepped into the darkness and what you 'might' see in there might drive you COMPLETELY insane.

Then you drag out of it, and ... some time later.. After you think you awoke from a terrible nightmare and you start to see the light..?

That's when everything you feared creeps up on you even worse than your scariest nightmare. And Kobayashi starts ****ting bricks and turns his Nightvision on because he 'KNOWS' if he can't see what he's about to witness, he will break a fuse and/or die. That's what I call true horror. This is why you can't go back to sleep, because you're scared to go back to this world, where the darkness has shadows and your brain can't even comprehend the horror it's experiencing.. And if you 'SEE' it.. keep your grip on reality as hard as you can.

I saw every movie from Koji Shiraishi, I'm looking for recommendations for something similar that could even come close to bringing the watcher in a similar state of fear towards a power that's infinitesimally more evilly powerful than them.

I like supernatural, but not when it's so blatantly in your face. Puzzling storylines and letting the watcher guess on to what's beneath the surface. I also looove ghosts/demon/entities movies. It's just hard to beat this movie in my eyes, it's the movie that made me get into j-horror.

I've already seen and LOVED:

- Jacob's Ladder, Brazil 1984, Silent Hill, [Rec] And especially [Rec]2
- Audition, Ju-On (Grudge), Ringu (Ring), Pulse(s),
- Shutter(s) which was great with the relationship with the camera
- El Espinazo del Diablo + El Orfanato, Pan's Labyrinth, White Noise
- In the Mouth of Madness, The Call of Chtulu
- Cloverfield
- Mirrors 1&2, The Twilight Zone, Eraserhead, Vanilla Sky(?), you know, stuff like that. And BTW, I really thought The Blair Witch Project was a pile of bull. When I was 11, I saw the last 2 minutes of it by chance and I thought the rest of the movie must've been traumatizing, but after watching it all much later, it destroyed the mockumentary style for me. Then recently, I saw Noroi, and now that's the scariest movie of all time for me..

Nothing really made me get this feeling of impending DREAD nearly as much as Noroï,... So, anybody felt like me and have suggestions / recommendations? I have no movie inhibitions so I'll probably give any idea a view. Thanks!

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It might be a bit 'in your face' - but Grave Encounters was probably my favourite horror from last year. Check it out...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703199/

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The BBC special Ghostwatch.

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Awfully similar in style is Marebito (Stranger From Afar) (weird camera-reporter goes underground ghost-hunting)

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I know the OP made the request a couple of years ago, but for anyone looking for horror movies with similar elements:

1. Lake Mungo
2. Karuto (Cult)
3. Next Door
4. Oculus
5. Delivery: The Beast Within
6. The Den
7. We Are What We Are
8. Sinister
9. The Shrine
10. The Conspiracy

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yes i second this list. especially lake mungo and the shrine.

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I didn't like this movie at all. To me it wasn't remotely scary and it was boring beyond belief. It is one of the VERY few movies that I wanted to turn off. I do, however make it a point to always watch a movie to completion so I do have the whole picture and can make an informed assessment.

I give it a 1/10. A rating that I almost never give.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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