289 | Cloud

• Unrated

• Runtime: 2hr 4min

• Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira

• Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024

• Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025

• RT: 93% critics / 61% audience 

• Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent

  Synopsis

  Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?

Horror Homework

This episode:

• The Innocents  - 1961 - Jack Clayton - rental

• Wait Until Dark - 1967 - Terence Young - rental

Next time:

• The Legend of Hell House  - 1973 - John Hough - rental only

• The Changeling - 1980 - Peter Medak - Tubi

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Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

288 | Shelby Oaks

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 31min

• Written & Directed by Chris Stuckmann

• Stars: Sarah Durn, Mason Heidger and Brendan Sexton III

• Premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival July 20, 2024

• Released in US October 24, 2025

• RT: 59% critics / 60% audience 

• Currently in theaters

  Synopsis

  Riley Brennan and her friends are paranormal investigators who disappear while exploring the abandoned town of Shelby Oaks, Ohio. The bodies of the other investigators are later found, along with one of the video tapes containing their footage. Riley and the other tape remain missing. 12 years later, a film crew is making a documentary about the murders and disappearance focusing on Riley's sister, Mia, and her efforts to locate Riley, when a strange man appears at her door with the missing tape. This plunges Mia further into her search for Riley.

Horror Homework

This episode:

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers  - 1956 - Don Siegel - rental

• Village of the Damned - 1960 - Wolf Rilla - rental

Next time:

• The Innocents  - 1961 - Jack Clayton - rental

• Wait Until Dark - 1967 - Terence Young - rental

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s newest, Cloud, currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and available to rent elsewhere.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/