It is, hands down, the best Japanese horror movie in decades, and quite possibly the single best horror movie you’ll see this year, period.

The thinly veiled commentary on aspects of modern Japanese society may fly over offshore viewers’ heads streaming on Shudder, but genre fans will appreciate the bizarre story’s sinister, twisty progress.

The type of unsettling, high-concept horror film that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it with unforgiving verve.

It’s in the tradition of Kafka or David Lynch, where the failure to cohere is part of the logic of nightmare.