cults
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Koji Shiraishi’s Cult is a meta-found-footage fever dream that gleefully deconstructs both the conventions of Japanese horror and the spectacle-hungry media culture that surrounds it. Framed as a reality-TV ghost investigation, the film lures the viewer in with familiar tropes (cursed families, psychic exorcists, vengeful spirits) only to turn them inside out with bursts of
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Noroi: The Curse is a 2005 Japanese found-footage, folk-horror film that quietly became one of the most influential (and unnerving) entries in J-horror. While it shares the urban legends, spirits, and media technology tropes of Ringu or Ju-On, Noroi leans even harder into documentary realism and rural folklore. The result is a slow-burn, mosaic nightmare;
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