Marebito

This is a very cool and weird movie. Everybody has already written what this movie is about so I wont explain its plot. Instead, im going to contribute my interpretation of it.SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!! READ THIS ONLY WHEN YOU FINISHED WATCHING THIS MOVIE. Im going to explain this in parts, so read along......Ok, this cameraman is a lonely individual that wants to experience fear, absolute terror, but cant do it by the "normal means", so he seeks terror in uncommon places, like suicide attempts and filming people. He uses Prozac to help his medical condition, and when he throws it in the garbage at the beginning of the movie, he starts seeing and hearing things that are not there, like the conversation in the underground with the suicidal man ghost, or the Deros. Also, this is why he doesn't remember his ex wife.Everything the camera films is real, because film cant lie, so I assume that the underground is real, as we can see this underground filmed. Also, the vampire girl is real, because she is filmed also, fangs an all. At the end of the movie, you can see that the cameras are still filming his descent into the underground, so this weird world of downstairs is real also. The ghosts or the Deros are not filmed, so they are only in the insane mind of the protagonist. There's a line in the movie where he says that everything is more real when he films it, and also we only see the faces of other people he is looking at correctly through his camera lenses, because they are real to him only through the camera lenses. All this supports this theory too. He even says when he sees this weird snuff film at the beginning of the film, that he will become a psychopath to really experience terror. This explains his later killings.This person and his ex wife had a children, information that is not in the movie, and this child maybe was killed or got lost, and this led this couple to their respective insanities and separation. This is not explained at all, but it helps understand the plot, so play along. The cameraman doesn't recognize his ex wife until he already killed her, and in his little moments of lucidity we see that he understands the situation that he is in, and that he is becoming a bad person everyday, but stills doesn't experience absolute terror. Also, we see that he is not satisfied with the terror showing on the face of his victims when he kills them, so he thinks that what he needs is something else to really get where he wants.At the same time, he meets this "Vampire Girl", who is very real, and he mistakes her for his lost daughter. That's why he gets her things, food and takes care of her. He sees her as a redemption option, but the kid is out of this world, and will only lead him to his death. He even gets her animal and human blood to drink, ignoring the weirdness of this situation, thinking that is normal. The kid even got lost, when the lunatic mother, his ex wife, enters his apartment and makes a mess looking for her missing daughter. That's why everything is messy and that's why she knows that he has somebody living in his apartment. But she returns, to still live with his protector.At the end of the movie, we see in him another moment of lucidity, where the cameraman says that he has tried everything to get terrified, killings and all, but nothing helped him, so he will reorganize his life, and forgets about the creature. But his insane mind is still at work, and he starts hallucinating again, seeing Deros in the city urging him to return to his apartment. So, he returns to his vampire child, who is dying of starvation. In this crucial moment, he rips open his tongue, therefore condemning himself to death by heart failure due to blood loss, to give her life, the life that he doesn't want anymore because he doesn't have anything to live for, and takes the creature back to where he found it so it can live underground.And that's when it hits him right in the face, the terror he seeked desperately all along is there at last, because at this very moment he sees that this creature is otherworldly and is not his missing child but a demon monster, and so he now realizes that everything that he did was to feed a demon child, and the mere presence of being looking at this demon, who is not his little kid anymore but a monster, scares him to death, a death that also is real because he is now at the other side of the camera, and this made it more real than ever.Who was this kid??? Well, there's a theory in the asian mythology that there are deities called Marebitos, that come to our world every now and then to heal things, so maybe this kid came to Masuokas life to heal his longing for his child, and ended being the terror he seeked during the movie.Hope this helps you.........

Marebito (Stranger from Afar)Takashi Shimizu - Japan, 2004A reviewer of our 2007 "Shaver Revival" sci-fi movie Beyond Lemuria said that we should have a place in the history of science fiction films as the first Shaver Mystery movie. As much as I appreciate that recommendation, the credit must go to Takashi Shimizu (Grudge 1&2) and his team for their moody, introspective 2004 horror film Marebito.This film avoids the sudden shocks of the Grudge films (amplified by loudmusical "stings"). Marebito creates a subtle mood of brooding terror and mystery which progresses downward into the gloomy underworld beneath modern Tokyo while descending deeper in the subjective torment of the protagonist's developing psychosis. Tokyo, like most modern cities, has a multi-level subterranean network of subways and utility tunnels that connect to earlier abandoned and forgotten excavations at deeper levels. The tormented video-journalist Masuoka witnesses a grisly suicide in the subway. Driven by a compulsion to discover the unknown terror that caused the man to kill himself, Masuoka explores this gloomy netherworld, going deeper and deeper until he reaches a dark passage between the worlds where he meets the ghost of the suicide. The ghost gives him a brief explanation of The Shaver Mystery and warns him to beware of the deros. Masuoka ignores the warning and enters the Cavern World of the ancients---which this film depicts as vast and mysteriously lighted. We get an impression of a Hollow Earth like Burroughs' Pellucidar. Here Masuoka finds `F' the mute and naked female dero chained in a rocky niche. Next we find him with `F' in his Tokyo apartment. She won't talk and she won't eat. She scuttles on all-fours like an animal and has fangs. He discovers that she is a vampire and he must feed her blood: --his, that of live animals, and finally---as his psychosis degenerates into homicidal mania---other people. Masuoka flees Tokyo and takes refuge in the countryside where he has a moment of clarity and realizes that he has killed his ex-wife and that `F' is actually his daughter whom he may also have killed---but the other world returns. The ghost of the suicide finally answers Masuoka's question: What was the ultimate terror that caused him to take his life? "Ancient knowledge!" --In agreement with Richard Shaver and H.P. Lovecraft. Once again resuming his dark quest, Masuoka returns to Tokyo.On the way to his apartment he glimpses the deros running on all-fours in the shadows. He realizes that they are in another dimension. At his apartment he collects `F'. He and 'F' then descend into the subways, and the abandoned tunnels beneath. Finally they reach the dark limbo between the worlds where he realizes the ultimate terror as his beloved dero begins to devour him. According to Shaver, dero vampires (like wealthy and powerful vampires on the surface) maintain their youth with regular transfusions of baby-blood. We get closer to the truth in Beyond Lemuria but Takashi Shimizu's metaphor is still on the mark---even if `F' didn't have the characteristic dero "white eyes"--but if `F' was Masuoka's daughter...?---For more on Shaver, and Shaver films visit [...]Poke Runyon,Writer-Producer: Beyond Lemuria

From the mind of Takashi Shimizu and with the acting of the lead of Tetsuo the Iron Man, you get a combination of mental sickness and a horrifying world that unravels in a quick hour and twenty minutes. The atmosphere is very unique and not like many of its contemporary horror films. Lovecraftian elements are not usually something I'd imagine in Shimizu's work. The ending leaves some questions, which I thought was befitting.I saw this movie years and years ago, and revisiting it I was pleasantly surprised to find myself even enjoying it more than my initial viewing with an older mind, able to enjoy some of the story elements a bit more in depth.As for the DVD it's of a good quality. Tartan always do a great job with packaging and video quality.

I finally got to watch 'Marebito'. It's definitely shot on low budget video format; but, that format adds to the creepiness / the uneasy gut feeling of everything that the filmmaker / director caught on film - It seems real in it's grittiness - I really want to believe that there is an underworld in Tokeyo Germany / New York City - Beneath civilization -that's mind separated from the normal that everyone lives in -I found myself very creeped out by this film- I couldn't go to sleepwithout looking under the bed / locking the door seven times - still couldn't sleep - wondering if the devros had found it's ways through windows / broken doors what would I do to know fear be devoured by end of life love Takashi Shimizu's 'Marebito' is a horrifying glimpse into that Seanced Reality

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