Occult
- heavy
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Koji Shiraishi interviews the survivors of an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.
Our read · Occult (2009) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Occult
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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