Best known as the creator of the Japanese Ju-on series and The Grudge franchise, Takashi Shimizu returns this year with Howling Village, inspired by a Japanese urban legend.
“The film centers on a village at the end of a forgotten tunnel from which no one has ever returned alive. A dam was built over it in an effort to erase the past, but the film looks into where the people went, what happened to them, and why the place is called Howling Village.”
“The heroine who sees the spirit tries to find out the truth of the strange events that occur one after another.”
You can check out the first 8-minutes from the film below, which see Shimizu taking a found footage-style approach for a sequence involving a young couple and an evil force…
Ayaka Miyoshi stars in Howling Village. The film will release February 7, 2020 in Japan.
