FilmPsychological Body Horror Splatter & Gore

Neighbour No. 132005

Name: Neighbour No. 13
Genre: Psychological, Body Horror, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2005-04-02
Rating: 5.8

“What if your personality began to crumble… who would you become?”

Directed by Yasuo Inoue

5.8

Crypt Score

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IMDb 6.3Rotten Tomatoes 11%Metacritic 49TMDB 5.5

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Year

2005

Runtime

115 min

The premise

Juzo Murasaki is a young man traumatized by his experience of bullying at school. He returns to his hometown and takes a job on a building site with his old nemesis Toru Akai. But Juzo's trauma has created a monster; he harbors a second personality, Neighbor No. 13, a vicious, brutal and disfigured character intent on exacting a painful revenge on his bully.

Horror Vault's take

Years of brutal schoolyard torment have left Juzo Murasaki a broken man — but something far darker has taken root inside him. When fate brings him face to face with his tormentor on a Tokyo construction site, the thin wall separating Juzo from his monstrous alter ego begins to crack. This Japanese psychological thriller adapted from a manga delivers an unflinching portrait of trauma weaponized, where the line between victim and predator is anything but clean.

Content: Graphic Violence, Bullying Depictions, Disturbing Psychological Content, Gore