Howling Village is a 2020 Japanese film directed by well known director, Takashi Shimizu. He's the man behind many J-horror stories. His most popular films were the Ju-on series or The Grudge which created an occult style of long black haired girls haunting unsuspecting people. Howling Village stars Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryota Bando, Masanobu Takashima, Hina Miyano, and Tsuyoshi Furukawa.
A women hears stories of a haunted village after her brother and his girlfriend are attacked there. Soon, strange occurrences start happening around her family that all lead back to the village at the end of the tunnel.....
Takashi's talent proceeds him as his previous work had such an impact on a culture that most people expect films similar to The Grudge. I even thought that this film would be like an updated version of the beloved horror franchise after watching the trailer. I'm here to tell you, that Howling Village is nothing like Ju-on but there is a dark haired girl. What's at the core of Takashi's vision here was a mystery inside a super chilling story with a dark history. Nothing about the events are really scary at least to me. I did enjoy this film through the view of a supernatural thriller where you had to put the pieces together. Some viewers might get confused because the story jumps time a lot and the ghosts seem to be either human like or zombie like depending on who it is. My favorite scenes was the kill scene involving a phone booth and the very last scene of the film. There's a good shock factor to Howling Village without the scares if that makes sense.
I'm not too much a fan of how the ghosts looked at all. Then on top fo that, the effects were just a sped up shots.. Every time it was shown, I was taken out of the film a little bit. I was here for the main ghost that controlled everything though.
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