For fans of Hideo Nakata: what to watch, read & play next

Cursed internet footage driving viewers to suicide is exactly the slow-burn digital dread Nakata fans crave.

A haunted property's secrets unravel around an illicit affair, blending domestic tension with genuine supernatural menace.

A young woman's arrival in a new home unravels into grief, mistrust, and unexplained death in a quiet suburb.

A journalist's investigation into simultaneous mysterious deaths exposes a cursed rural inn — pure J-horror origins.

Anthology tales of creeping supernatural encounters in Tokyo, each built around an ordinary person meeting something wrong.

An ex-detective turned academic's dangerous obsession with a disturbing new neighbour lets dread grow from the perfectly mundane.

An ancient mirror found in a secret warehouse unleashes forces that shatter a family's fresh start.

A young woman's unexplained balcony suicide in apartment 1303 pulls her sister into a building's lethal haunting.

A cryptic internet video is the only clue to a Tokyo terrorist attack — the uncanny digital threat at its sharpest.

A hidden mirror-city where humans and spirits coexist and no one dies carries the same eerie liminal quality as J-horror.

A buried family crime resurfaces sixteen years later, exposing the quiet horror that can live beneath a normal household.

A rookie director reopening a real murder case finds the past refusing to stay past — slow, unsettling, investigative dread.

Two sisters cursed with seeing and attracting ghosts navigate a world where spirits are a quiet daily intrusion.

A mysterious cousin wrapped in a futon claims to be an alien — suburban strangeness that feels just off-kilter enough.

A supernatural girl with terrifying powers lands on a yakuza's lap, mixing dark comedy with genuinely uncanny menace.

A protagonist's self-tormenting psychology spirals absurdly, capturing the helpless dread of desires you can't escape.

Bizarre murders in 1950s Tokyo and a missing-girl case intertwine in a dark visual-novel investigation full of dread.

A player-detective unravels an interactive murder mystery where your own choices determine who survives — and who doesn't.

Trapped in a nightmarish version of your school, hunted by something wrong — pure corridor-horror tension.

A small rural village in 1983 hides violent secrets that repeat across timelines in this layered horror sound novel.

Haunted by a spirit manor in her dreams, a woman must uncover its curse before it consumes her waking life.

A close-knit village community conceals ritualistic horror beneath its cheerful surface — paranoia, trust, and death.

Competing perspectives on the Hinamizawa murders peel back another layer of culpability and dread.

A girl raised underground fights through a zombie-overrun Tokyo, mixing survival dread with a lost world's longing.

Three men driven by revenge, ambition, and an unresolved past converge in a thriller where fate tightens like a snare.

Facing a past defined by cruelty and silence, a young man confronts guilt and communication across an unbridgeable gap.

Post-quake 21st-century Tokyo blurs the line between reality and the virtual in this unnerving cyberpunk mystery.

An 'impossible' murder mixing the supernatural with a locked-room puzzle — classic dread in a golden-age shell.

A young man summoned to another world discovers his only power is dying and reliving — helplessness weaponised as horror.

Five years of guilt over a bullied deaf classmate come due — quiet, suffocating dread that builds from a single wrong.

A yakuza world reshaped by a father's return unleashes emotions kept under lethal control — taut psychological tension.

A methodical detective traces two survivors of a 1973 Osaka murder across decades — slow, cold, and deeply unsettling.