One night, Hiroshi is bothered by incessant knocking coming from the hall outside his door. He sees a large, stringy-haired woman pounding on his neighbor's apartment door, though she leaves soon after. However, the next day the woman returns, and this time she seems to have her cold, frightening sights set on Hiroshi...
In the seemingly-normal small Japanese town of Kurozu-cho, odd events are beginning to take place. Residents are becoming obsessed with spiral - whirlwinds, snail shells, pottery, or anything with a spiral design. But when strange events start happening in the town, with spirals appearing in disturbing places, can anyone escape their horrible draw?
Uzumaki and Zashiki are both creepy, creepy titles. Admittedly Uzumaki is more of a fantasy tale, both will manage to weird you out big time.
Zashiki Onna and Uzumaki are both horror stories who gradually go from slightly creepy to downright scary. They start out giving you the feeling something is wrong, and only keep expanding that feeling. Out of these two, I enjoyed Uzumaki more, but for horror fans, both are very recommendable.
Rabbit Doubt is a popular new mystery game in which a ‘wolf' kills off each of a group of ‘rabbits' one by one. If the rabbits determine the identity of the wolf, they win the game; but if they suspect the wrong individual, the rabbits all die. Eiji, Rei, Mitsuki, Haruka, Yuu and Hajime are six friends who were meeting for the first time at a karaoke bar, but then, while separated, they lost consciousness and came to in a mysterious building - one of their bodies impaled on the wall. A real life game of Rabbit Doubt has begun. With paranoia and suspicion abounding, the survivors struggle to piece clues together before the Wolf picks them off one by one.
During an uneventful bullet train ride, a catastrophic event occurs and buries the train and its passengers alive in a collapsed tunnel. Bloodied and broken bodies are strewn everywhere, and only three students aboard survive: Teru, Nobuo and Ako. While Teru and Ako are focused on trying to find a way out, Nobuo descends into the depths of madness, pitting the strangers against each other. With no news of what's taken place to cause this accident, Teru, Ako and Nobuo must fight to survive. However, even if they are to escape, what waits for them outside is unknown and terrifying...
The Blue Heaven is the greatest of luxury cruise liners, catering to its guests’ every need. While passing by a derelict fishing ship during a voyage, the Blue Heaven’s crew investigates, finding only two barely-alive survivors alongside a scene of murderous carnage. They are brought on board and treated, but one of the two men escapes custody, loses himself amongst the numerous passengers, and is confirmed the killer by the second survivor. With the ship thrown into chaos behind the scenes, can security forces find the madman before events escalate?
Zashiki Onna and Blue Heaven are definitely not identical in plot, but both are thrillers that will keep you turning the pages. Zashiki is the far better of the two, but I think fans who enjoy one would likely enjoy at least some of the other.
The year is 1983 and the place is Hinamizawa, a sleepy countryside village far from the rest of civilization. Keiichi has just moved to the town with his parents and quickly makes new friends in Rena, Mion and a few other girls. But soon Keiichi discovers that there’s a hidden, brutally violent and murderous past to Hinamizawa that its residents keep secretive to outsiders. As he investigates the town’s troubled past, Keiichi begins to realize that those who are close to him may not be as they seem…