If all the Grudge sequels didn't wear out your affection for director Takashi Shimizu's work, then you might be pleased to hear the filmmaker's 3-D thriller The Shock Labyrinth should soon be reaching these shores. According to Variety, Fortissimo Films has just picked up the worldwide rights to the picture (excluding Japan), which is currently in post-production. Hit the jump for more info. Shock Labyrinth focuses on a band of teens who are startled by the return of a long-lost friend. It stars several Japanese actors familiar to genre fans, including Battle Royale's Ai Maeda and Ichi the Killer's Erina Mizuno. It's due for release overseas by the end of this year, though a U.S. release...
- 8/27/2009
- FEARnet
dFortissimo Films have snapped up the worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to Takashi Shimizu’s live-action 3D Horror The Shock Labyrinth. The move marks another foray by Fortissimo’s into the world of Asian horror, following its recent acquisition of Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s supernatural thriller ‘Nymph’ and Pang Ho Cheung’s upcoming Hong Kong slasher Dream Home. Its great news that it’s been picked up for distribution overseas, but we still wonder if we will ever get to experience it as the Japanese will. Theatrical 3D film distribution is still a very pricey business, so most likely we will only get to see it as a 2D release.
- 8/26/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
dFortissimo Films have snapped up the worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to Takashi Shimizu’s live-action 3D Horror The Shock Labyrinth. The move marks another foray by Fortissimo’s into the world of Asian horror, following its recent acquisition of Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s supernatural thriller ‘Nymph’ and Pang Ho Cheung’s upcoming Hong Kong slasher Dream Home. Its great news that it’s been picked up for distribution overseas, but we still wonder if we will ever get to experience it as the Japanese will. Theatrical 3D film distribution is still a very pricey business, so most likely we will only get to see it as a 2D release.
- 8/26/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Seoul -- "The Shock Labyrinth," the latest film from "The Grudge" director Takashi Shimizu, is to be a 3D live-action movie represented in international markets by Fortissimo Films.
The story takes place in a theme park near Mount Fuji and follows a group of teens dealing with the shock return of a friend they had assumed to be dead.
Produced by Japan's Asmik Ace, the film also marks Shimizu's return to genre filmmaking after a hiatus of several years.
"The production represented a great challenge in creating a brand new way of expressing fear and telling a dramatic story via the medium of 3-D film. I hope as many of you as possible will find yourselves trapped in my labyrinth and enjoy the experience," he said.
The film is in postproduction, having begun principal photography in early July.
Produced by Ogura Jimusyo's Satoru Ogura, Asmik Ace's Masayuki Tanishima and Dai Miyazaki,...
The story takes place in a theme park near Mount Fuji and follows a group of teens dealing with the shock return of a friend they had assumed to be dead.
Produced by Japan's Asmik Ace, the film also marks Shimizu's return to genre filmmaking after a hiatus of several years.
"The production represented a great challenge in creating a brand new way of expressing fear and telling a dramatic story via the medium of 3-D film. I hope as many of you as possible will find yourselves trapped in my labyrinth and enjoy the experience," he said.
The film is in postproduction, having begun principal photography in early July.
Produced by Ogura Jimusyo's Satoru Ogura, Asmik Ace's Masayuki Tanishima and Dai Miyazaki,...
- 8/25/2009
- by By Patrick Frater
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The trailer for "Ju-on" creator Takashi Shimizu's latest dive into the terror deep, "The Shock Labyrinth In 3D", is now available. The trailer comes from the official Shock Labyrinth website, which unfortunately unless you speak Japanese... The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house. More as it comes! ...
- 8/19/2009
- www.ohmygore.com/
This Haunted Song is Untitled Variety is reporting that Ju-On's Takashi Shimizu will direct an as of yet untitled film about 'a haunted song that drives its listeners to suicide.' Shimizu's The Shock Labyrinth, Japan's first live action 3-D film is set to be released this October. Faust Will Rise Again According to Variety, German director Oskar Roehler will direct a new film based on the classic 'deal with the devil' tale Faust. So far the only casting that has taken place is actor Moritz Bleibtreu who is set to play Mephisto. King for Mother's Day Darren Lynn Bousman was going Twitter crazy last night posting a heap of Mother's Day casting...
- 8/19/2009
- FEARnet
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Ju-On (The Grudge to you westerners) director Takashi Shimizu will begin work on his next project, an English-language horror thriller about a song so horrific, so depressing and macabre, that it drives whomever listens to it to suicide. Think Ringu meets Lady Gaga.
Penned by Chris Philpott (Fairytales and Pornography), the unnamed feature will be produced by Taka Ichise (Ringu) along with Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and Brad Fischer. The idea of a killer song came directly from Shimizu and Ichise
Shimizu is currently wrapping up The Shock Labyrinth, Japan’s first live-action 3D flick. The film is based on a popular haunted house attraction at Fuji-q High Land, an amusement park near Mt. Fuji and is apparently the world’s longest horror house walk-through. A group of teenagers (it’s never 30-somethings) take a sick friend to an old hospital (it’s never new modernized hospitals) and discover...
Ju-On (The Grudge to you westerners) director Takashi Shimizu will begin work on his next project, an English-language horror thriller about a song so horrific, so depressing and macabre, that it drives whomever listens to it to suicide. Think Ringu meets Lady Gaga.
Penned by Chris Philpott (Fairytales and Pornography), the unnamed feature will be produced by Taka Ichise (Ringu) along with Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and Brad Fischer. The idea of a killer song came directly from Shimizu and Ichise
Shimizu is currently wrapping up The Shock Labyrinth, Japan’s first live-action 3D flick. The film is based on a popular haunted house attraction at Fuji-q High Land, an amusement park near Mt. Fuji and is apparently the world’s longest horror house walk-through. A group of teenagers (it’s never 30-somethings) take a sick friend to an old hospital (it’s never new modernized hospitals) and discover...
- 8/19/2009
- by Erik Buckman
- ReelLoop.com
Japanese wunderkind director Takashi Shimizu is looking to move past the borders of Japanese horror movies and American remakes of his original Japanese horror movies and finally directing an original English-language horror film for the first time. The director, who has already wrapped production on Japan’s first 3D horror movie “The Shock Labyrinth” mere months after it was announced (they work fast over there), has been attached to direct an untitled thriller about a haunted song for Phoenix Pictures. According to Variety, Phoenix Pictures has assigned writer Chris Philpott to adapt an original idea by producer Taka Ichise and Shimizu. The film, which doesn’t currently have a title, will center around a haunted song that drives its listeners to suicide. If you’re keeping track, that’s a haunted song. Asia has produced some pretty wacky haunted inanimate items in the past, from shoes to cellos to videotapes to sofas,...
- 8/19/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Following his latest work on the upcoming fright flick The Shock Labyrinth, Takashi Shimizu (“Ju-On,” “The Grudge”) has signed up to direct another horror movie, this time for U.S. based Phoenix Pictures. Based on an idea by producer Taka Ichise and Shimizu, the as yet untitled project will follow the story about a haunted song that drives its listeners to suicide. Early thoughts story wise, is that its all sounding very much like yet another American re-hash of an Asian horror. The “hashee” being Masate Harade’s 2007 Suicide Song, but we’ll have to wait and see.
- 8/19/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Following his latest work on the upcoming fright flick The Shock Labyrinth, Takashi Shimizu (“Ju-On,” “The Grudge”) has signed up to direct another horror movie, this time for U.S. based Phoenix Pictures. Based on an idea by producer Taka Ichise and Shimizu, the as yet untitled project will follow the story about a haunted song that drives its listeners to suicide. Early thoughts story wise, is that its all sounding very much like yet another American re-hash of an Asian horror. The “hashee” being Masate Harade’s 2007 Suicide Song, but we’ll have to wait and see.
- 8/19/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Takashi Shimizu has heard the sound of his next horror film. The director behind Ju-On and the English remake The Grudge, will direct a thriller about a haunted song that Phoenix Pictures will produce. Chris Philpott penned the script, based on an idea by producer Taka Ichise and Shimizu, about a haunted song that drives its listeners to suicide. The project does not yet have a title. Shimizu is wrapping up Japan's first live-action 3-D feature, The Shock Labyrinth, which will be released in October by Asmik Ace. Ichise, who produced Sony's The Grudge and its sequel, as well as New Line's Shutter, is producing Paramount's first Japanese-language production, a remake of the studio's Ghost.
- 8/19/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
The trailer for Ju-On creator Takashi Shimizu's latest dive into the terror deep, The Shock Labyrinth in 3D, is now available. Say what you want about the guy and his films. He knows his stuff when it comes to making movies about really creepy ghosts that are pretty pissed off.
The trailer comes from the official Shock Labyrinth website, which unfortunately unless you speak Japanese you're probably gonna have a real devil of a time finding, as you have to navigate through a haunted house to discover it. That being said ... we did the legwork for you, so dig on the trailer in all its spookiness below.
The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house.
More as it comes!
The trailer comes from the official Shock Labyrinth website, which unfortunately unless you speak Japanese you're probably gonna have a real devil of a time finding, as you have to navigate through a haunted house to discover it. That being said ... we did the legwork for you, so dig on the trailer in all its spookiness below.
The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house.
More as it comes!
- 8/13/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Wasn’t it just two months ago that we heard “The Grudge” director Takashi Shimizu was getting ready to shoot Japan’s first 3D horror movie called “The Shock Labyrinth”? Yup, and now we have a teaser trailer for the new horror movie. Talk about efficient filmmaking! If Hollywood ever found itself doing a movie this fast, it might just implode, along with the universe. “The Shock Labyrinth” will be based on the popular spook house attraction at the Fuji-q High Land amusement park near Mt. Fuji (billed as “the world’s longest horror house walk-through”) and will follow a group of teenagers who take a fainting friend to an old hospital, only to discover that it’s actually one big horrific labyrinth with, one presumes, deadly traps and girls with long hair haunting the corridors. The film is scheduled for a October 2009 release, and stars a bunch of actors you’ve never heard of,...
- 8/13/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Arriving in Japanese theaters on October 17 is Takashi Shimizu's (The Grudge, Marebito) latest genre pic, The Shock Labyrinth, which follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house. The official website was recently launched and features the Japanese trailer, among other goodies. It's pretty cool, only it gets tiring waiting for the site to take you through the entire funhouse to get to other sections. Save yourself the trouble and watch the trailer below.
- 8/13/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
Need proof that the current wave of 3D films is more than just a passing fad? How about the fact that 3D capable screens are now being installed all around the globe, Korea has just announced their first ever 3D horror film and Japan is poised to release their own 3D entry in late September.
Takashi Shimizu’s The Shock Labyrinth is a a film we reported on a while back, the island nation’s first 3D horror film entrusted to the director of the hugely popular Ju-On series of films as well as artier fare like Marebito. Based on - and set in - a popular Japanese theme park ride, The Shock Labyrinth seems like a bit of a rushed production job, even by speedy Japanese standards, but having gone into production just months ago the release date is already just a month away and the first teaser has...
Takashi Shimizu’s The Shock Labyrinth is a a film we reported on a while back, the island nation’s first 3D horror film entrusted to the director of the hugely popular Ju-On series of films as well as artier fare like Marebito. Based on - and set in - a popular Japanese theme park ride, The Shock Labyrinth seems like a bit of a rushed production job, even by speedy Japanese standards, but having gone into production just months ago the release date is already just a month away and the first teaser has...
- 8/13/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
It’s been a long time coming, but the official site for ‘The Grudge’ director Takashi Shimizu's newest frightener The Shock Labyrinth is now live, and lurking within is a fantastic full length trailer for the flick. Sl, Japans first ever mainstream 3D theatrical release hits local cinemas on October 17th. Right enough with the chit chat, lets go see Japanese teens in mortal peril, in a haunted house from Hell!
- 8/13/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Hot on the heels of Takashi Shimizu’s upcoming Japanese 3D horror, The Shock Labyrinth, The Korean Film Council (Kofic) has announced that director Kim Ji-Hwan (Evil Twin) will direct Korea’s first ever 3D horror film, Soul Mate. The film, currently slated for a summer 2010 release, will have visual effects done by Macrograph, the company responsible for the effects work on films like The Forbidden Kingdom, The Restless and the Korean horror film Handphone.
- 8/7/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Hot on the heels of Takashi Shimizu’s upcoming Japanese 3D horror, The Shock Labyrinth, The Korean Film Council (Kofic) has announced that director Kim Ji-Hwan (Evil Twin) will direct Korea’s first ever 3D horror film, Soul Mate. The film, currently slated for a summer 2010 release, will have visual effects done by Macrograph, the company responsible for the effects work on films like The Forbidden Kingdom, The Restless and the Korean horror film Handphone.
- 8/7/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
A new still has surfaced for Ju-on (The Grudge) director Takashi Shimizu’s latest, the 3D haunted house horror, The Shock Labyrinth. Based on a script penned by Daisuke Hosaka, the movie will follow a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine (as you do) haunted house. Still no sign of a trailer for the film - but it can’t be long now - the film opens in Japan in just over two months.
- 8/7/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
It has been three years since Takashi Shimizu stood beside a film camera and worn his directorial hat—literally. Eschewing the black leather cap that was seemingly glued to his head throughout the production of the Japanese Ju-on and American Grudge movies that made his name, Shimizu is not only sporting new headwear for his newest feature, but is also shooting with a new, custom 3-D digital system, the first for such a production in Japan.
Journeying down to the city of Tateyama, Fango paid a visit to the set of The Shock Labyrinth 3D last week to catch up with director Shimizu’s return to feature filmmaking. Within the peeling walls of a local hospital, Shimizu and his crew are hard at work on one of the final days of shooting. Seated behind a large LCD monitor, the filmmaker reaches over to a spare set of 3-D glasses and hands them to this writer.
Journeying down to the city of Tateyama, Fango paid a visit to the set of The Shock Labyrinth 3D last week to catch up with director Shimizu’s return to feature filmmaking. Within the peeling walls of a local hospital, Shimizu and his crew are hard at work on one of the final days of shooting. Seated behind a large LCD monitor, the filmmaker reaches over to a spare set of 3-D glasses and hands them to this writer.
- 7/1/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Norman England)
- Fangoria
Takashi Shimizu knows his stuff when it comes to making movies about really creepy ghosts that are pretty pissed off. In his latest film, The Shock Labyrinth, he's taking his trademark pale spookers off of the screen and into your lap via the wonders of 3D!
The first hi-res stills from this upcoming flick appeared online over at Bloody-Disgusting. Dig on one of them below and click it to see the rest.
The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house.
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The first hi-res stills from this upcoming flick appeared online over at Bloody-Disgusting. Dig on one of them below and click it to see the rest.
The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house.
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- 6/18/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
I wasn't exactly sure about this upcoming 3d flick from Takashi Shimizu backed by Asmik Ace which stars Yuya Yagira, Misako Renbutsu, Ryo Katsuji, Ai Maeda, Erina Mizuno, and Suzuki Matsuo. Why? Well it didn't sound like much original, but after seeing these technocolor stills, I'm sold. Shock Labyrinth is being shot (mostly) on location at the inspiration for the film, the worlds largest haunted house (according to Guiness) at the Fuji-q High Land amusement park near the base of Mt. Fuji,
The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house.
Stills after the break. via Horror Movies and Stuff
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The film follows a group of teenagers dealing with the sudden return of a friend who went missing a decade ago. When the friend falls ill, they take her to a hospital but end up trapped in a labyrinthine haunted house.
Stills after the break. via Horror Movies and Stuff
Head to Quiet Earth to see the stills.
- 6/17/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Wonder why Takashi Shimizu isn’t directing the tenth anniversary installments of his Ju-On franchise himself? The answer is simple enough: because he’s making Japan’s first 3-D horror film instead!
Horror Master Takashi Shimizu Commences The Production Of Japan’S First Live Action Digital 3D Feature In The World’S Longest Horror House Walk-through
Tokyo, June 3rd 2009
Japanese production and distribution company Asmik Ace Entertainement today announced the commencement of the principal photography of “The Shock Labyrinth,” a live action digital 3D film directed by Takashi Shimizu (“Juon,” “Juon 2,” “The Grudge,” “The Grudge 2”). The horror project is aiming at an October 2009 release in Japan. Asmik Ace handles both local and international distribution of the Ogura Jimusyho production. The project marks Japan’s first ever live action digital 3D feature film as well as Shimizu’s long-awaited return to the horror feature after 3 years. Produced by Ogura Jimusyo...
Horror Master Takashi Shimizu Commences The Production Of Japan’S First Live Action Digital 3D Feature In The World’S Longest Horror House Walk-through
Tokyo, June 3rd 2009
Japanese production and distribution company Asmik Ace Entertainement today announced the commencement of the principal photography of “The Shock Labyrinth,” a live action digital 3D film directed by Takashi Shimizu (“Juon,” “Juon 2,” “The Grudge,” “The Grudge 2”). The horror project is aiming at an October 2009 release in Japan. Asmik Ace handles both local and international distribution of the Ogura Jimusyho production. The project marks Japan’s first ever live action digital 3D feature film as well as Shimizu’s long-awaited return to the horror feature after 3 years. Produced by Ogura Jimusyo...
- 6/3/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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