The Complex

The Complex

2013 · 106 min · JA · 4.8 (69 votes)
Dir. Hideo Nakata · Starring Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Masanobu Katsumura, Naomi Nishida, Sosei Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi · Music Kenji Kawai
Horror

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.

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This film feels like being trapped in a decaying apartment building where unseen forces press in. Every creak and shadow amplifies a creeping dread, making the mundane terrifying. It's a suffocating descent into psychological unease.

dread-soakedclaustrophobicunsettlingtenseslow-burnJ-horroratmosphericcreepy visualspsychologicalisolationsupernatural horrorurban decayparanoia
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