Noroi: The Curse

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Watched With: Jordan

After exhausting all the usual ghost stories we've started seeking out the more obscure titles. This one has come up in a few lists as a forgotten gem, and as an added bonus, it's from the hey-day for J-horror. Plus it's found footage. It magically ticks all 3 boxes.

As an added bonus, part of the "found footage" is from Japanese television broadcasts, which are just inherently hilarious.

There's a cool unfolding mystery here and apart from one too many looks to camera, the found footage aspect works well. Although they don't trust the audience to pick up any of the subtle background scares so there's a lot of repetition with push ins to spooky figures in the backgrounds of scenes.

There's definitely some spooky stuff here and it held my attention. I didn't find it completely effective but it was a fun watch.