Sunday, August 11, 2024

Howling Village (2019) - Takashi Shimizu.

Following her distressed brother Yuma's (Ryota Bando)sudden disappearance, his beautiful, psychically gifted psychologist sister (Ayaka Miyoshi)visits his last known destination, an eerie, infamously haunted and ill-omened locale known as "Howling Village." Her investigation fatefully exposes a shocking revelation that this benighted village's terrible mysteries are connected to her family! Takashi Shimizu's unsettling, atmospherically doom-laden narrative is an immersive spook-fest with some monumentally shuddersome sequences! The quality performances and technical aspects are exemplary, and I'm quite sure your angsty trip into Howling Village should prove memorably macabre! I loved Shimizu's masterful J-Horror treat, and the feral, ghoulish-looking spectres are splendidly spooktacular! The dark, cryptic mythology of The Howling Village is compellingly strange, and its malign mystery should prove thrilling to fans of intelligent folkloric horror. The moody, emotionally stirring climax is genuinely exciting, and I found Shimizu's Howling Village to be a fascinatingly creepy admixture of Dark Water & The Returned.

 











 

 

 

 

 

 

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