New 'Erica' Video Shows the Horror Behind a Smile
The video and actor comments emphasize that the film's horror comes not from gore but from the slow distortion of a seemingly normal relationship.
Reporting from 1 sources: Eiga Natalie.
A special video for the psycho-horror film 'Erica' has been released, featuring new footage of the unsettling relationship between Tatsuki and Erica. The film, a self-remake of director Taro Miyaoka's 2008 independent film 'Rensa', opened May 15 and has been selected for multiple film festivals. Miyaoka won Best Director at the 4th Yokohama International Film Festival.
The special video for 'Erica' opens with the waitress's innocent café smile before cutting to her swinging a bat on a midnight sidewalk and staring from a window behind her boyfriend. The tagline reads 'This woman. Something's wrong.' Director Taro Miyaoka, who won Best Director at the 4th Yokohama International Film Festival for the film, remade his own 2008 independent feature 'Rensa' into this psycho-horror. Ayumu Mochizuki plays Tatsuki, a 23-year-old man dating Erica, played by Meiri Hayashi. Mochizuki said he is happy with the response but added, 'For now, I don't want to meet Erica (laughs).'
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- Eiga Natalie 望月歩＆林芽亜里が「Erica -エリカ-」反響を実感、美少女の猟奇的な一面を捉えた新映像も