Here’s an interesting little number getting a US DVD release early next year, 2005’s GUROZUKA. Synapse Films are releasing the title under their Asian Cult Cinema Collection.
The Japanese film is one I heard about a few years back and I was very interested in seeing it. However it was impossible to find, if you too have wanted to see it now is your chance. The DVD will be released on January 10th and available for all regions. It will have its original Japanese audio with English subtitles and feature a ‘Making Of’ bonus feature along with the trailer.
A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the girls learn a previous club member supposedly went missing in the house, and another insane! Shortly after they arrive, a mysterious videotape is found with footage of a violent killer wearing a Japanese “deigan” mask. Is this footage real or fake? Soon, their food and equipment disappears and one of the girls is haunted by ghostly visions of the masked demon. Someone or something is in the house, and gruesome death awaits those who cannot escape! Synapse Films is proud to present Yoichi Nishiyama’s GUROZUKA, a stylized horror film in the tradition of SCREAM and genre-bending Japanese classic, THE RING!
Directed by Yoichi Nishiyama, GUROZUKA stars Keiko Saito, Yuko Kurosawa, Yukari Fukui, Nozomi Ando and Yoko Mitsuya.
You can go ahead and pre-order the DVD right HERE.