An acrylic painting on wood panel, titled 'Marebito', of a pantless woman in a purple hoodie sitting on a picnic blanket drinking blood from a glass. Her feet are chained and holding a roman candle that is firing down at a superimposed image of multi-monitor computer rig.

Marebito

(2004, Takashi Shimizu)

It certainly wasn’t amazing but Marebito was a unique film to watch and I think a must-see for any filmmaker. The way it was shot and the storyline was unlike anything else I’ve seen. A cameraman is searching for "true fear" and to find it he explores the undergrounds of Tokyo to find a Netherworld. There he finds a pale woman, naked and chained in an alcove and he takes her back home to nurse her back to health. Her existence remains a mystery throughout the film; all we know is that she needs human blood to survive (though the feeling is different than a vampire, maybe more like a robot?). Shimizu is the director of the Ju-on series right? So it’s that similar style.


A screenshot showing the back of a man's head as he hovers over a naked woman sitting in the dark. Her body resembles a lifeless mannequin. From the movie 'Marebito'. An animated gif of a scene from the movie 'Marebito' of surveillance footage seen from an old cell phone showing a girl running on all fours. A screenshot from the horror film 'Marebito' of a man and young woman sitting on a set of steps outside of a shopping mall. The man is drinking an ice coffee and the girl is drinking a bottle of blood.

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