Occult2009

Horror Vault's take

When filmmaker Koji Shiraishi — playing a version of himself — sets out to document the aftermath of a senseless mass stabbing at a tourist resort, his interviews with survivors quickly pull him into something far stranger than a simple true-crime investigation. The deeper he digs, the more the boundaries between the mundane and the inexplicable begin to erode. Shot in a raw pseudo-documentary style, Occult weaponizes the familiar language of investigative journalism to drag viewers toward a deeply unsettling cosmological abyss. Expect dread that builds slowly and payoffs that resist easy explanation.

Content: Stabbing Violence, Depictions Of A Mass Attack, Disturbing Imagery, Unsettling Psychological Content