She's in the frame. The Japanese director Hideo Nakata knows well the meaning of terrible and gloomy stories. He shocked the world with his scary and creepy films about the famous “Bell” about a girl from a well, as well as a psychological horror film, which I especially love “Dark Waters”. This Japanese director knows how to exquisitely scare the viewer, his stories are frightening, and they are really creepy and unpleasant. Hair stands on end on the skin, watching the stories of Hideo Nakata.
Before "The Call" and its remakes, before "The Dark Waters" and its remake, the director in 1996 made his second horror film called "The Ghost Actress". The film is widely known in the East to those who love and appreciate the horror genre, but around the world this movie is not known and heard about it. The picture remained on the sidelines and unknown, but a true moviegoer who watched this story knows that it is extremely creepy and inflating.
This is the story of a young, aspiring director named Murai. He and his team are making a movie and everything is going well at first. Soon looking at the footage, everyone sees on film footage from an old, creepy movie. No one understands what the matter is, and the director remembers that he saw him as a child and was very afraid. This film was shot in the same studio a long time ago, which is very scary to emphasize. Soon Murai sees on the further filmed material the silhouette of the girl behind the actors. The young director begins to understand, and most importantly to feel with all his guts, that there is something mystical on the set.
The film is made in style not for a large audience or for a large audience. This horror movie needs to be watched alone to get inside and appreciate its story. The director shoots the film in a realistic atmosphere without a single note of falsehood. Everything goes like a documentary story, and when something mystical begins, it really becomes uneasy. Hideo Nakata knows how to scare the viewer. He does it grimly and abruptly. After this film, it becomes somehow uncomfortable, there is anxiety. It's a very scary story.
The silhouette of the ghost actress turned out to be extremely mysterious and dark. Everything is filled with darkness and chilling terror. When watching the film, the director makes it so that the viewer always wants to see the ghost of the actress and learn her story. When this comes, words cannot describe the darkness and horror of the whole puzzle. It was really scary, the main character of this story is not envious.
"Ghost Actress" is a Japanese, mystical horror film Hideo Nakata and a terrible story for those who love this genre and understand it. Also for those who appreciate horror films Takashi Shimizu, because his films and Nakata are similar in their atmosphere and style.
6 out of 10