THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 3: Cult (2013)

October 3: A Found Footage Horror Film Directed by Koji Shiraishi

Directed and written by Kōji Shiraishi, this starts when Tomoe Kaneda (Sayuri Oyamada) and her 15-year-old daughter Miho catch paranormal activity in their new home on camera. A paranormal TV show sends actresses Yu Abiru, Mayuko Iwasa, Natsumi Okamoto, and Mari Iriki — playing themselves — along with Buddhist priest Unsui (Shigehiro Yamaguchi) to investigate.

Yet when Unsui tries to move the spirit from the home, it possesses Miho, who murders her dog. Bringing in his superior, Ryugen (Hajime Inoue), Unsui and the older man are unable to stop the entity and are both killed. Another exorcist, NEO (Ryosuke Miura), learns that Miho is the perfect conduit between a cult and their god, bringing it to this world to take over.

This film is tied to the EisukeNaitō movie The Crone and Norio Tsuruta’s Talk to the Dead.

You can watch it on Tubi.

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