Luna Monday Double: Cure + Pulse

Luna Leederville, November 23

Cure | MA 15+

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s landmark psychological horror follows a detective investigating a series of seemingly unrelated murders, each committed in an eerily similar manner by perpetrators who have no apparent connection. His investigation leads him to a mysterious amnesiac drifter whose presence seems to unlock something deeply disturbing in those around him. Hypnotic, atmospheric and profoundly unsettling, Cure is widely regarded as one of the great achievements of Japanese horror.

15 minute intermission

Pulse | M

A group of young Tokyo residents begin encountering strange phenomena after one of their friends mysteriously disappears. As ghostly figures emerge through computer screens and deserted rooms, an inexplicable sense of isolation spreads across the city. A landmark of J-horror, Pulse transforms the anxieties of the internet age into an eerie meditation on loneliness, disconnection and the possibility of a world haunted by the dead.

Japanese language with English subtitles