The J-Horror Virus
Directed by Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp
A documentary charting the origins of a new strain of supernatural horror which emerged in Japan at the turn of the millennium and went on to take over the world.
A global eruption of supernatural horror films from Japan.
Cast: Rie Ino'o, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Shinya Tsukamoto
Member Reviews
awful. . . just awful
swfu
A really interesting documentary! Had a great time watching it!
Immeasurably disappointing documentary that makes extensive use of AI generated imagery, something I'm very surprised to see the lack of criticism over. Interspersed between interviews and relevant clips, there are frequent vignettes of AI generated images; meaningless visual gibberish that is distracting at best, and is a stain on what could have otherwise been a decent documentary. But considering the ethical objections to generative AI, that training data for these programs is stolen and used without permissions, I have to wonder how many of these classic films featured were used for training data? Such a question makes the visuals seemingly used to evoke a J-Horror style mood all the more sad, you've got to wonder how much of that visual noise is plagiarized from the films the producers wanted to pay tribute to, just algorithmically regurgitated into meaningless, contextless visual amalgamations? J-Horror deserves better than that.
Solid documentary on the history of J-horror with interviews from most of its most influential directors and a select couple actors. Got a little repetitive at times, but overall very informative and pretty entertaining.