After an initial trailer with no English subtitles, a new preview has arrived for Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s thriller Creepy, making things obviously clearer for audiences here due to the addition. The story concerns an ex-detective and criminal psychologist (Hidetoshi Nishijima) with a happy, quiet life who has his tranquility disturbed when he begins to suspect his new neighbor (Teruyuki Kagawa) isn’t quite who he says he is. Featuring one of the creepiest smiles I’ve seen in quite some time from Kagawa, Creepy looks to be a dark and twisted thriller.
We said in our review: “Though the middle stretch does go on for longer than is strictly necessary – a good 20 minutes could easily have been shaved off without forsaking anything crucial – the eventual pay-off doesn’t disappoint. Featuring an industrial vacuum cleaner-cum-sealer, a mysterious mind-control drug — both spooky and narratively convenient, considering the characters’ screamingly preposterous behavior — and a pit-equipped basement that competes with The Silence of the Lambs for most terrifying movie cellar of all time, it’s exactly the type of juicy, creatively twisted, and hilariously unreasonable climax you expect from a Japanese horror film.”
See the trailer below, with a hat tip to The Playlist, for the film that also stars Yüko Takeuchi, Haruna Kawaguchi, and Masahiro Higashide.
CREEPY, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s breath-taking psychological thriller, will be released in selected cinemas nationwide (UK & Ireland) and Digital HD from 25 November 2016.
Based on a novel by Yutaka MAEKAWA, “Creepy” follows ex-police detective and criminal psychologist Takakura, who moves to a quiet suburban town seeking peace and quiet, but soon begins to suspect that his neighbour is a psychopath who comes into people’s households and takes over their lives.
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, who won Best Director in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 for his elegiac drama “Journey to the Shore”, returns to genre in which he made his name with this “creepy” psychological thriller. Bringing in a great ensemble cast of leading Japanese actors & actresses, Kiyoshi KUROSAWA who also co-wrote the screenplay, has been quoted as saying: “Each actor exudes a mysterious delicacy and ferocity, which the camera has somehow been able to capture. The end result is this breath-taking thriller.”
With its gripping suspense and riveting story, “Creepy” marks Kiyoshi KUROSAWA’s return to the horror genre with a horrific thriller so intense that audiences around the world will shiver in fear.
Creepy hits theaters in New York on October 21st, followed the UK and Ireland on November 25th, along with a VOD release on the same date.