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The Complex2013

Name: The Complex
Genre: Ghosts & Haunting, Supernatural, Psychological
Released: 2013-05-13
Rating: 5.5

Directed by Hideo Nakata

5.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.1TMDB 4.9

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Year

2013

Runtime

106 min

The premise

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.

Horror Vault's take

When nursing student Asuka moves into a rundown apartment complex, a disturbing discovery about her reclusive elderly neighbor sets off a chain of increasingly sinister events that refuse to stay buried. Strange sounds, whispered rumors, and an unsettling history of deaths within the building suggest the complex harbors something far worse than bad memories. Director Hideo Nakata returns to the J-horror tradition he helped define, weaving quiet domestic spaces into landscapes of creeping dread. What begins as a mystery of the living gradually darkens into something that may be beyond the reach of the living to solve.

Content: Disturbing Imagery Of Death, Depictions Of Neglect And Isolation, Jump Scares, Unsettling Supernatural Sequences