Dead Waves

Dead Waves

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2005 · 77 min · ★ 3.9 · Horror

When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. To his horror he realizes that he is not only a witness to the blossoming insanity, filming each scream and horrific expression, but that he and his technology have been intricately tied to the cause and conduit of its spread…

Directed by Yôichirô Hayama · Written by Kayo Kanô

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