In the winter of 2019, writer/director Derek Hammer began production on his “J-Horror” film in Japan. His script for the film had won “Best Horror Screenplay” at the L.A. Horror and Crime Film Fest in April of 2019.
Backers were found for the funding of his film. Hammer then spent the fall of 2019 in Japan scouting locations, pre-production planning and a cast was recruited. The Covid-panic had not yet hit and Hammer was able to wrap filming before Japan went into lock-down.
Titled Woman in the Chair, the buzz was quickly out there that an American filmmaker had delivered a tasty “J-Horror” film, but now the pandemic was full on, festivals shutdown, theatres did so as well and that was it for Hammer’s film. Two years and nothing.
In January, genre fans and several web sites, began reporting that it was back in the hunt. And then word arrived this past week that Bayview Entertainment will be debuting Woman in the Chair on Blu-ray this coming Aug. 30. The wait, the long road to distribution, is finally over!
Maurice (Hagen Van Holland) is an American living in Japan, who enjoys “discovering” the out-of-the-way Japanese villages, well away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo. On one of these explorations, he finds an old abandon house and observes a woman just sitting motionless in a chair. Thinking she might be dead Maurice notices that she never moves; a vision of a woman ethereal in nature.
For hours he observes her, films her and then becomes convince that she is in fact a ghost stuck in time and in this particular place. So, what does Maurice do?
This is a traditional J-Horror film and you can bet that Maurice’s plan to fashion a viewing area for tourists to see his ghostly discovery, while having merits as a sound financial investment, can only lead to some rather nasty consequences. Ask yourself the question, “what can possibly go wrong?”
The jolts and paranormal abound on Aug. 30 with the Blu-ray debut of the Woman in the Chair … from Bayview Entertainment.
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