Goth: Love of Death

Goth: Love of Death is director Takahashi Gen’s live-action adaptation of the award-winning novel by Japanese author Otsuichi, which had previously been adapted into a popular manga by artist Kendi Oiwa, and which has apparently been optioned for a Hollywood version. Thankfully, despite its title, the film is not concerned with depressed, makeup wearing vampire wannabes, but is a far more interesting affair, following a couple of outsider, death-obsessed teenagers who become entangled with a series of bizarre murders. Unsurprisingly given such potentially grim subject matter, the film is pretty bleak, though at the same time is engaging and even oddly moving. –IMDb