despite not have one scene where something ill define and much less pleasant to look at jump at the viewer in that boo gesture a requisite and staple of modern horror kiyoshi kurosawa kairo be an unnerving collection of disturb image that be so freakish in nature a to make the skin creep in bout of goose flesh . all throughout and there this escalate dread that like the slow advance of these people who be not quite there and and it just keep on tighten it noose and a if ask one to put the dvd on pause or maybe even turn it off altogether . and for someone like me who keep on state that the horror genre be dead and this just make me eat my word . for year and horror movie have be about the way we encounter the supernatural and and the way it haunt u . all of the mode of employ have be use up and exist only a backdrop . there be no longer haunt house where an ancient curse befell a family though i may have to cross that out a ju on be exactly about that . no longer do dracula or the werewolf or frankenstein ( and a huge roster of other monster ) scare u and and the more esoteric entry into it web be stale . it be only time when what we do use on a daily basis phone and fax and printer and television and and of course the world wide web would be the harbinger that could thin the layer separate u from those who be in another dimension and create an escalate panic . two story play themselves out until they dive tail at the right moment in kairo . the first one concern michi and a girl work at a plant store in tokyo . she notice that a co worker and taguchi and hasn not show up for work in a week and and decides to check in on him . when she arrive at his apartment and he seem fine to her and but when she go search for a particular disk she need and he hang himself . later on michi and two other co worker notice that within taguchi file there be a strange picture of his own room and what seem to be taguchi stand still to the side of his computer and which be also show the same image . they notice a face on a second computer and and a blow up show it to be that of taguchi and blankly star out . yabe then receive a phone call from taguchi which be impossible and go to his apartment to find taguchi body go ( of course ) except for a black smear on the wall where he be find dead . a he leave and he see a door frame in red tape which catch his attention and so much that he make the mistake of open it . once he do and he have one frightening encounter and one of the strangest and and scary and i have ever see in horror movie . it seem that within taguchi disk seem to contain a horrific virus that be spread rapidly and cause mass suicides all throughout tokyo . one in particular be gruesome even when see from a distance a michi be on the phone represent a woman throw herself off a high tower and her body hit the floor in a flat thud . the second story make itself present by introduce itself a another young man incursion to the internet . ryosuke be get his internet instal on his computer and but the package seem to have a malfunction represent immediately he be introduce to a bizarre website that present image of people in the act of be alone in their bedroom and languid and tired and on the veer of terrify . a prompt ( would you like to see a ghost . ) freak him out and he disconnect the computer immediately and but it turn itself on again and and an unsettling image of a person and his head cover in a black bag and play itself . what neither of them know be that from the other side and something have seep it way into the world of the living . it be malevolent in way that be only hint at and a the dead feed off the life force of those who be alive and literally turn them into ash . one explanation point at something that begin almost innocuously a seed but have grow to such size that it be now use computer a a way to filter it way through and walk among u . kurosawa inter cut this explanation with one extremely queasy image represent that of an empty room lit in a sick green light and a an apparition materializes . that as well a many and be what make kairo so overwhelmingly terrify . where kairo may limp just a little be in it plot pacing and decision make by it character . for example and computer geek harue ( koyuki ) own crucial left turn be an exclamation point of logic but an overpowering descent into virtual hell see in low resolution video and complete with hoot and click and her terrified smile of relief a she embrace something unspeakable . despite this and it be drench in sepia tone and suffocate anxiety it the tension that doesn not find an automatic release and but get strong and strong and without stop for a rest . and nothing be so frightening a to see the vaguely form image of a man move so freakishly towards you a you be unable to react and and once he be up and close and all you see be his eye and star and quite alive and a he tell you he be real .