Category: 28
All Genres: Adult
Release Year: 1982
Country: USA
Runtime:
Languages: English
Director: Gary Graver
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

They Took It To The Limit!

Writing by: C.W. O'Hara - writer

Produced by: Harold Lime - producer

Cast: John Alderman - Bud Stone (as Frank Hollowell)
Chrissie Beauchamp - Linda - The Secretary (as Chrissy Beauchard)
Carmel - Margo - Maid
Eric Edwards - Gary - Pool Boy
Ron Jeremy - Murray - Construction Worker
Robert Kerman - Dan (as R. Bolla)
Laura Lazare - Tess Hunter (as Laura Lazane)
John Leslie - Carl - Servant
Cara Lott - Dee - Linda's Friend
Jon Martin - Bobby
Kay Parker - Shannon - Barmaid

Music: Kenji Kawai
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Plot Outline: A mysterious video kills whomever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery.
Plot: Reiko Asakawa is researching into a 'Cursed Video' interviewing kids about it. When her niece Tomoko dies of 'sudden heart failure' with a face of terror on her, Reiko investigates. Shes finds out that some of Tomoko's friends who had been on a holiday with Tomoko the week before had died on exactly the same night at the exact same time in the exact same way. Reiko goes to the cabin where the teens had stayed and finds an 'unlabled' video tape. Reiko watched the tape to discover its the 'cursed videotape'. Ex Husband Ryuji helps Reiko solve the mystery, Reiko makes a copy for him. Things become more tense when her son Yoichi watches the tape saying Tomoko had told him too. They discovery takes them to a volcanic island where they discover that the video has a connection to a Pyscic who died 30 years ago, and her child Sadako...

Movie Quotes: Yoichi Asakawa: You know what, Mum?
Reiko Asakawa: Yes?
Yoichi Asakawa: Tomo-chan watched the cursed video!


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Instead of giving the full cast credits it simply says "and some of the world's most beautiful girls"

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: In a close-up of Sadako in the end scene, one of her fake finger extensions is coming off.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The effect of Sadako coming out of the well was accomplished with only one simple special effect. Rie Inou, who is a student of the Kabuki theatre, which uses exaggerated motion and jerking movements to emphasize emotion, was heavily involved in the development of the Sadako character. Inou was filmed walking backwards and the film was run in reverse - the end result is Sadako walking forwards with unnatural motions.
• Yamamura Shizuko is based on a real person, Mifune Chizuko, who was born in 1886 in Kumamoto Prefecture and who was rumored to have the gift of foresight. After a demonstration in 1910, she was proclaimed a charlatan and committed suicide a year later by ingesting poison.
• The highest grossing horror film in Japanese history.