Icarus Films will be teaming up with the KimStim Collection
on Feb. 28 for the domestic DVD debut of auteur
Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror thriller, Creepy.
As with some of his other films, The Cure and Pulse
for example, Kurosawa doesn’t just go straight away to the horror elements, but
rather builds a real world mystery that eventually takes the audience down that
road.
If you had to think of an American film as a reference point
to understand Kurosawa’s film craft in this area, then check out director David
Fincher’s 1995 film release of Seven. In that film you had a pair of detectives
investigating a twisted murder case that step-by-step turns into an absolute
horror nightmare.
It’s the same with Creepy as a retired criminal psychologist by
the name of Takakura
(Hidetoshi Nishijima) is beset upon by not one, but two former colleagues to
help them crack a “cold case.” At first
he demurs, he is still suffering from the horrible events (and, if the truth be
known, his own stupid decisions) that led to his retirement, but upon
reflection — and the second request — he decides to take a closer look for
clues.
Mistake, perhaps, but if he declined to pursue the case the
movie would come to a screeching halt … and we can’t have that! Basically, the “cold case” revolves around a
missing family and sure enough the family that has moved in next door begins to
more and more fit the profile of those who have gone missing.
The mystery presented in Creepy slowly twists and
turns its way into a nightmare as Takakura’s world turns into a real horror
show.
Creepy is presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
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