Hypnosis

aka: Saimin
Japan 1999, 109 minutes
Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Cult, Horror / Black Comedy, Splatter

Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno

Aroview: A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this supernaturally-twisted detective thriller.

A slickly executed and influential Japanese shocker, this gets more conventionally cat-and-mouse as the culprit is gradually exposed, but its always gleefully mischievous (if not quite devious) and shot through with the respectability of a star Japanese cast.

Incredibly Strange Film Fest 2000