Looking for something that isn’t there, the horror of the sea, staring at the beautiful crashing waves, maybe something is wrong, maybe there’s something terrible underneath, but what’s worse is what your mind conjures. Interesting how this was the movie that kicked off the J-Horror craze when it’s so obsessive about not directly showing anything horrifying, but that’s also exactly what makes it tick. The rules of the videotape lead to a constant countdown for the police procedural, a perpetual dreary mood overlaying the main duo’s race against time, the suffocation of inevitability envelops the film. The ending reveal is haunting — you would pass the curse on too, if you knew how. The cycle will always continue.