Very well written. I love how the plot twist about him lying about the whole thing actually worked in the stories favor and steered it away from being just another ghost story. My investment in the story peaked once the taxi driver said he had made the whole thing up yet still strange things happened because I was curious to see where the story went from there. When the director mentioned that someone was sitting in the car I started to feel a sense of dread that was perfectly capped by the car door opening. Great suspense all around. I admit - the ending has me a bit confused but even so I still found it incredibly eerie. "Why did you quit being a taxi driver." is a line that still has me pondering the meaning of it all. Great stuff. Thanks for taking the time and putting forth real effort to create these short films. 👍
@sacarymoviesamu10 ай бұрын
Do you have an explanation about the end ?
@AlfiRizkyR4 ай бұрын
@@sacarymoviesamu they arrived at a cemetery, and one that's been around for a while if the tomb count is to be taken as standard. In other words, from the beginning, there shouldn't have been a forest in that plot of land at all. Whatever the taxi driver and Izawa-san walked into was not a real forest; it's implied to be the actual land of the dead.
My favorite horror series on this site at the moment. I love the analog horror trend & several fantastic YT series but this one is just so fresh. The touch of ambiguity in several of these episodes really set them apart.
@naiad90 Жыл бұрын
Can you share some of those yt series?
@CalvinChikelue Жыл бұрын
@@naiad90 I was thinking of stuff like Petscop, Mandela Catalogue, Gemini Home Video, The Real, Valle Verde, 10 Tapes & This Room Does Not Exist etc.
Some of the works on this channel are not documentaries as fakes, but documentaries about fakes. They are very inspiring and intelligent and remind me of the great Orson Welles. Thank you.👍💐👏
Thank you for the great work and the English CC! I can not believe that this is relatable for an Indonesian like me, because some ghost stories in here told that if any bus, or a car, have drove away and suddenly got lost in a grave. Or it's sometimes a restaurant or a small food kiosk, or even as big as tradisional market at night, but when people got back in there the next tomorrow morning, it become a grave. This work is so stunning!
So, there's probably A LOT of imagery and symbolism that gets lost on us westerners watching this, but I think from what little I understand of japanese folklore, this is my theory: The fake story is completely true, even the taxi story, the DVD, everything, but Maeno doesn't realize it (or lies to himself?) I've read before about how in japanese folklore, ghosts don't outright possess people like in western movies, but upon contact, it acts more like an "infection" that has to be spread, even if the person acting out doesn't realize that's what they're doing until the end, in this case Maeno supposedly took more than one person to that place but he quit taxi driving because of that guy with the ghost call from his mom, but then he went on to try and sell the story and attracted more attention to it, and when the DVD with the director got made maybe both him and Maeno were meant to be spirited away to this otherworld, or maybe Maeno was supposed to lead him away, but the director actually knew his stuff and managed to escape, away from that place, but Maeno continues being compelled to drive people into that place, and at the end he may finally be coming to the realization that it was all true, OR maybe during the video he was under the influence of whatever ghost or phenomenon this was and was going to bring the camera man into the forest, but the "gate" or spirit world didn't open, which left him confused. That said, something I have yet to see mentioned, since these videos are really good at including important background details, has anyone noticed the orange/yellow tape and cone at the 21:21 timestamp?? Is this a tie-in to another video, or maybe hint to something else?
@CaffeFox Жыл бұрын
Wow, that's a interesting theory. That explains why the taxi driver survived too. Btw, the tape is the certification of vehicle inspection, which honestly would be a cool place to hide some lore, but I don't know if that's legal...?
@rosebride5620 Жыл бұрын
@@CaffeFox Thank you for your words and for clearing up about the tape, maybe I was reading to much into it, who knows 😅
@ricardozamora1696 Жыл бұрын
at first i thought this was the place from the plan c video , there where even some cars at some point also i thought i might have some resemblance to the WHAT THE DECEASED LEFT BEHIND video too
@Zerovin Жыл бұрын
@@ricardozamora1696 could also be from the BIVOUAC video with the lady walking through a forest
@TheUncleRuckus Жыл бұрын
I've LOVED Japanese ever since I was a boy after watching _Onibaba_ and _House_ for the first time back in the 80's, ever since then I can't get enough if it! For me it's bc the stories always feel fresh, original and different, its not the same old garbage cliches and remakes that Hollywoods been crapping out on our faces for the past 60 years. The acting is always believable and genuine even when it's been done on a small budget, that and Japanese performers put so much nuance and feeling into the performance that makes you feel like you're in their shoes that it puts a chill up your spine. Also love that the ends are usually really bleak where it never really ends well for the MC, it's not the fairytale happily ever after that I'm accustomed to as an American movie goer and I like that bc it just feels more real as things don't work like that I real life. So glad I found this channel through Night Mind bc this channel is amazing!! Thank you for uploading. 👍👍
The essence of this work seems to lie in the title of the Japanese version, "kaidan" (meaning "mystical horror story"). Modern kaidan in Japan is created in such a way that it drifts between fiction and non-fiction, with unidentifiable fears creeping in through the uncertainty of the story. This story is a challenging, very clever and terrifying masterpiece that recreates the kaidan, which is based on oral tradition, on film.
@火華火華 Жыл бұрын
毎回何とも言いようの無い雰囲気に引き込まれます
@BrendanLawrence-m3u6 ай бұрын
Reminds me of The Blair Witch haha. I really like the documentary style horror. It gives it a much more grounded and everyday feel, that makes the creepiness much more compelling, I think. Really like the show, hope to see more!