Another Heaven
Detective Manabu is on a team hunting a serial killer. At each scene the victims are horrifically mutilated and their brains removed and cooked up. Even when they manage to catch the apparent killer the crimes continue. The suspects brain has shrunk and shows signs of tumours. The new killer seems to exhibit similar personality traits to the previous one and forms a deadly obsession with Manabu.
If you haven't guessed its a body jumping killer, though that's pretty easy to guess. The film is well worth seeking out, though not easy to get these days. Its got some fairly nasty murder scenes and a dark tone, however it also manages to throw some humour into the mix. The killers identity is ultimately quite vague but actually appears to be less relevant than his/her motives.
Noroi, the curse.
Not one to watch before bed. Its a found footage film from Japan made about 2005 but doesn't seem to have received a massive release in the west. Strange because at the time it was made it would have got some attention. Its about as well executed a found footage film as I've seen, rewarding careful attention to plot details that pay off later in the film.
It follows a paranormal investigator piecing together various strange incidents which lead to a genuinely horrifying conclusion. It avoids having characters offer massive info dumps of information each time something worrying happens and slowly hints and whats happening. Great stuff.
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