The story is about a paranormal investigative journalist, Masafumi Kobayashi, last research about supernatural activities in a neighborhood which leads to unfold a dark secret that once lurk a little village that has long been gone, submerged, when a dam was built around their place.
Legend has it that there was once a village, called Shimokage where sorcerers inhabited who makes rituals for the demon but is now buried under water when the shikami Dam was built in 1978 since the last ritual that was performed before the whole village submerged it was believed that the demon kagubata possessed a girl so he can carry out his evil plans. The girl grew up and went to Tokyo to study and work but wherever she goes to live bizarre things start happening and mysteriously strangers and people who got involved with the possessed woman die of horrible deaths.
The movie started with a voiceover narrator telling about the paranormal expert and about his last and greatest research and about how he disappeared mysteriously and then the movie eerily begun playing.
Mysterious things started to happen when the paranormal investigator journalist investigates a strange and eerie woman named Junko Ishii and her son. And soon enough bizarre events starts happening and then it shows a variety show that showcases children whose got a gift of clairvoyance and her strange disappearance and an actress whose got a third eye went to investigate a shrine but instead got possessed by some malevolent spirit just then the series of events leads back to the mysterious woman Junko Ishii and as the journalist went deeper into the mystery secrets of a forgotten village are being unearth which reveals of an ancient evil that wanted to be freed and how the reporter’s family die of a very disturbing death.
Review:
I thought this is one of those Blair Witch Project genre type of horror movie but as the story progresses I found out it was far different and well, I must admit much better. I love how the story was actually connected and how they actually will make the viewers ask themselves if this movie was true especially since the entire movie was shot out of a DV camera.
At first I find the series of events that was shown unrelated and the slow pace of the movie started to annoy me and if it hadn’t been for the fact that I have paid to watch the movie I would have gone and turned the movie off but as the movie progresses it made me curious and wanted to find out as to what is the connection of the mysterious Junko Ishii with all the bizarre things that was happening and I must admit I truly admire how they were able to connect the series of events from the journalist himself, to the movie actress, to the clairvoyant girl and to the mystery that once lurks a submerged village called Shimokage. You will not see gore stuffs and scary ghost with long black hair but what’s shown on the footage is enough to spook you and give you goose bumps.
