ENTRE LOS SUEÑOS Y LA MUERTE

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. “O” intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn.

Best known for his independent collisions of steel and flesh, it looked like Shin’ya Tsukamoto was going mainstream with this foray into the realms of J-horror. Smuggling this great filmmaker’s DIY aesthetic into the commercial sphere, Nightmare Detective is a techno-chiller that hums with tension.