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Smahorror
Masaki Nishiyama / 0:17:16 / Japan / Horror / 2021
One day, Rena discovers that in her high school, a female student had once video streamed her suicide in the past. The video turns out to be a fake, but Rena endeavors on a test of courage to the third stall of the third-floor toilet, where the suicide supposedly took place.
An innovative horror movie shot in vertical smartphone size.
Director：Masaki Nishiyama
Born in 1999, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The sci-fi movie he made in high school was nominated in the SSFF. He was selected as the best young director finalist with the same film and received the best sci-fi movie platinum award in overseas film festivals. He then directed The Eternal Moment (2018) in the UK, and the smartphone film, Smahorror (2019). His latest work is Smahorror (2021), shot in vertical smartphone size.