Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Noroi: The Curse

Recently, I finally entered the 2010s and signed up to a streaming video service.  No, not Netflix or Amazon Prime.  You see, I have a pretty big backlog of unwatched DVDs and Blu Rays to go through, and I know that I went for something with libraries as big as the ones they have, chances are I'd never get to those piles, they'll still be collecting dust come next Christmas.  What I decided to try was one that's horror specific, called Shudder.  There's a bundle of titles on there I've been interested in for a while, but not so much that I'll need to shell out for more than a month or so to get through all I'm there for.

The main reason I started my free trial of Shudder was to check out a film my brother had mentioned on his blog, Hell House, LLC.  It's a found footage movie that, rather just present it as a raw stream of the footage as filmed, instead is edited and presented like a documentary that has gotten a hold of the footage later, which has a few extra advantages.  That one is pretty good, and I recommend you check out it, if not on Shudder then on one of the other streaming services it's on, like Prime if you have it.  However, what I want to talk about is another film along those lines, a Japanese one from 2005, thus just before the real flood of found footage films began, called Noroi: The Curse.