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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


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)
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257 | The Night House

Synopsis 

A woman grieving the recent suicide of her husband experiences strange disturbances in her home and begins to believe that his ghost is attempting to contact her.

 

Join us in two weeks when we review Alien: Romulus, opening in theaters August 16.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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