Noroi: The Curse

Noroi: The Curse's tinfoil scene and final ritual deliver peak J-horror dread, making it an intricate supernatural mystery that unfolds across TV shows, home videos, and documentary footage. Koji Shiraishi's 2005 Japanese found footage film, at 115 minutes, demands patience — but the payoff is one of the most elaborate and genuinely frightening mythologies in horror, with a paranormal investigator tracing connections between a missing woman, psychic child, and ancient demon Kagutaba. It outperforms #2 The Taking of Deborah Logan in narrative complexity, featuring 50% more interwoven plot threads, and its 2005 release predates the average found footage film's 2012 trend by 7 years.