Have you ever walked down a corridor or into a room in the dead of night with your heart beating and your skin crawling? Something spooks you, for reasons that — in the clear light of day — seem to have to nothing to do with the real world. Or do they?
Real estate agents do not commonly proclaim that a property has recently been the site of a suicide, murder or undiscovered death, especially after a renovation that leaves no trace of the previous inhabitant. Such places give off bad vibes, and not only to the superstitious. The reality of their business means that discretion is advised.
This is the setting of "The Inerasable" ("Zan'e: Sunde wa Ikenai Heya"), Yoshihiro Nakamura's engrossing, skin-crawling adaptation of Fuyumi Ono's best-selling horror novel. In the film, college student Kubo (Ai Hashimoto) hears strange sounds in her apartment's tatami room and describes them to a horror novelist (Yuko Takeuchi) who has asked readers to send her stories of their scary experiences.