“Haunted Room” Hikikomori Horror
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 18, 2010 17:35 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Hikikomori, Horror, Mental Illness, Movies, Otaku, Thailand, Video Gallery
Japan’s hikikomori population now has the dubious distinction of having inspired an overseas horror movie, “Haunted Room.”
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A widespread phenomena of a strange symptom is happening to teenagers all over Japan.
They shut themselves alone in a room, not going to school, to work, or even seeing family, some without leaving their room for 9 years.
They are called ‘Hikikomori.’
The film itself will apparently be airing in Thai cinemas come April.
Murderous hikikomori are unfortunately not not unheard of – obsessive behaviour, strong emotions and dependence on family make for a powerful admixture whether in fiction or real life.
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I think the mommy's crazy, I wouldn't be suprised to see an ending where he son's already dead and she just kept him in the room, while still treting him as if he were alive.
It would be kind of cliche though...
He died in there all that remains now is a vengeful ghost.
Really though you'd think to kick the door down and throw in a bees nest to get him out of there after a week or two.
You know so he doesn't die in there and starts smelling up the place.
I so want to see this movie, i heard thai horrors are suppose to be the scariest of horror or whatever
Most of the time it's the "normal" people who are the crazies. Doctors, civil servants, police man/woman, a mother, a father, jealous gf, and other. So why not add a hikki to spice things up eh?
INBOU~
That what a Full Pledge Otaku will do... Never leave their room.(unless if there is a convention) Its their world so don't disturb!
9 years, huh? Well, I guess I'm good then.
I like my Hikis in Japanese, not Thai.
the ending of this movie will disappointed you guys.
Ah~ Good movie to watch with my girlfriend when i'm in Thailand next month..........
>girlfriend
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
welcome to the NHK
welcome to hell xD
Even when I was locked in my bedroom for a long time, I never thought about killing my mother xD
But I want to see this movie anyway :3 No alien monsters for once!
I have watched this movie and I must tell you guys.
!!! THE TWIST PART IS SOOOOOO LAME !!!
Probably not a bad idea if Japan would make a hiki movie and the first thing would be that his/hers parents die
- that would be enough for the horror
- I mean all hikis would be scared to death.
Then a failed suicide attempt, that would bring him to a hospital and after that he would try to get to society - allone
(it would be too unrealistic if he had help be someone)
An otaku horror movie would be that his parents would throw out his figures/DVDs/mangas/games/PS3/tengas/oppai_mousepads... and they would try to get him back to society
- there could be two plots
1) either he would kill everybody or
2) he would have success and would get a girlfriend then marry, he would work and she would manage all his income, but at least they would have sex (sometimes)
school rumble uniform!
I think this movie's plot is really really really LAME.
Oh, Kiri-chan. <3
IT LOOKS GOOD XD , now we need a "equality now" or a Agnes-chan horror movie xD
i just hope he has a bathroom in his room, because if no and he never leaves, that smell must be horrible... that would be a true horror :D
Holy shit. Is this real? xD I have to see this! But seriously, I can comprehend not leaving the home for long periods of time, but the room?
This movie is suck in the room is not her son but the movie make you meet "Gollum" from Lord of the ring ..........
ROFL THIS IS TAILORED TO SCARE PEOPLE ABOUT COMPUTER NERDS AND OTAKU.
which one made first? silent hill the room or this?
what the fuck
exactly lol
LOL. THIS IS RETURDEWDD.
and, somehow this looks somehow.. copied off some other movie.. just that i forgot what... and just that the plot changed slightly?
I'm thai and I want to tell you that this movie have absurdity reason.
And the plot of this movie, it like Anonymous 15:07 19/03/2010 said.
but if it at least has some plot then it's still better than k-on :)
Um, K-On! did have a plot.
Are you another one of those morons who thinks a plot means having a problem, a climax, and a solution?
actually yeah.. they are plot's fundamental structure.. so yeah..
Hey, they had a climax at least. and the whole
getting into some stupid problem thing is getting old. trollz =.=
I lol'd xDD
Movie is Real bad
I've already watch it...
It look like B grade movie TT
You prolly watch the wrong movie.
So the guy hiding in the room isn't the son, what a crazy twist.
i nominate best comedy of the year dealing with a particular stereotype~
I am Thai and if you want to know how plot twist i will tell you.
plot summary Spoiled Alert!!
- the son died and mother cannot accept the reality so she joined some ESP-religion group and with this some how she can create some ESP creature, similar to gollum in LOTR, by her ESP power and think it her son. This ESP creature enjoy the role as hikikomori son and lock itelves in the room play online game and kill every one that what to know what is inside the room.
at the end of story it kill "school-rumble cosplay woman" and hurt its mother to coma status and vanishing from story. as a result "school-rumble cosplay woman" 's mother join the same ESP-religion group and create her own ESP creature daugther.
(I'm Thai)
Believe me, it's not a Hikikomori. It's Gollum!!!
This movie is very terrible , its plot twist like comment above said
"hikikomori" only refered in first 15 mins of this movie
after that , it transforms into silly horror movie
anybody reminded of Yume Nikki?
This might be fun to watch. Not recommended if you are a mother of a hikikomuri because strange thoughts might come to your mind.
Indeed xD
そんなテレビや新聞でしか見たことのないひきこもりが
私の身近にいるわけないじゃないですか
嫌だなぁあれは・・・ざしきわらしですよ!
Hikikomori are never seen only on TV and newspapers such
So there you are not familiar to me
I hate Warashi Naa is any living room!
สบาย สบาย แล้วเธอก็คงเข้าใจ
เรานั้นจะอยู่เรียนรู้กันไป
จะทุกข์จะสุขเพียงไหน
very nice Zetsubou Sensei quote
This is a Thai movie..
This is where Pyramid head started. But this is kinda strange, don't you have to shit don't you have to eat? I'm frustrated thinking about this
that's some pretty good propaganda
Yep, this is Thaimovie called who r u?
Bwhahahaha this is shit.
Well, it would be a good movie if in the end everyone gets trolled; the door is opened and inside there's just your standard otaku room full of figures and posters and some random guy fapping to a VN while eating ramen and farming MMO gold in a second PC. Super scary!
I'm Thai, after watching this movie...many ppl are mad at it. LoL
Looks pretty sweet.
OOOOOOhhhh....
This looks interesting ndeed...
He's not a hikikomori, it's a zashiki warashi, an evil one...
i think the premise of the movie is that the hikikomori son is possesed by a murderous spirit/ghost/etc... or else there's no point in calling a it the ""haunted" reem"
He should not go out of his room or it'll be a disaster.
I see why you're tightly bounded in your picture.
Are you a good one?
There is no such thing as an evil zashiki warashi~! They just don't exist~!
~They do...and they are evil and stealthy...lurking in his/her room, cursing, swearing and sending oaths to the world. of course, non-fiction characters will not be affected.
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There is nothing Good in shutting yourself away from The world. These people doesn't do it Becuz. They think it's Funny, they're doing it becuz they're sick. And by sick i mean mentally ill.
What The cause it's better to help Them as fast as possible rather than just leaving Them For themselves
this comment was loaded with quality indeed...
After he kills one or two people, I think kicking down the door with a loaded shotgun in hand is the next step.
@Anon 17:56 :
"After he kills one or two people..."
What, do you think the first one might have just been an "accident", so we'd better wait for a second one, just to make sure it was an "intended" murder?
Shotgun + kick down the door: a poor idea.
A breaching charge, followed by flash-bangs, followed by rushing the room (with shotguns): a safer idea.
C4+tear gas+flashbangs+AK-47+??? = profit.
I'm pretty sure that's the same steps you used for Zombies, then Las Plagas, then the Majini...
Is this your solution for everything?
nah it doesn't work for constipation
You won't constipate when you have lost your sphincter, anus, rectum and most of your intestine.
geriatric comforts
Hopefully he ain't campin'
Boondock Saints-style
Boondock Saints-style
ooo I love Thai horror movies. Always make me jump XD
I lol-ed
The movie is a conspiracy to get the world to hate us >_<
doesn't look very good anyway and ENGRISH Subbing
... but it still looks like a movie that would make me laugh.
Lol, this movie seems ridiculous. I doubt most Hikikomori are even that creepy. They seem misguided more then anything. And if mental illness is indeed involved, then this movie is just further reinforcing negative stereotypes about mental illness.
Like NHK with bad ENGRLAND?
People love sniffing others' dirty laundry.
the food is bad
The entire script of this movie seems to be written by my parents.
> ENGRISH Subbing
This.
I didn't even know that you were a Hikikomori,but yeah I agree.I really feel like this film is just gonna function as a redirection onto you guys.Because you aren't say contributing to the societies that you feel don't accept you already.
Hate us?
May i ask You to define What You mean by That, this is after all a thread about hikikomori and NOT otaku.
they don't know the difference and they don't care.
Which part is Engrish? I thought the sub is ok, I didn't notice the wrong usage of grammar or sentence structure anywhere though?
basterd for one, wasn't really paying attention but that caught my eye.
@unellmay02
that "whe" is "who", it's just that the fonts are bad and the "o" looks like an "e"
look at the upper-right corner: Haunted Reem?
"Just Cunous why he needs to shut his blind and windows all the time
So have you seen anything out of ordinary?
Usually it's the mother who cause it
I am not the one who lock him in
He is the one not wanting to come out
You are crazy
Basterd
Haunted room
whe are you? "
Not ENGRISH when their not Japanese dumbass
Holly crap, hikikomori inspired movie and it's not even a Japanese one. What's next, otaku movie ? :)
Otaku no video... Gainax already did it XD
refer to akihabara@deep lol but thats a series
there already is a Movie version of of @deep try searching for it.
thought it was a real-live NHK ni Youkouso there...
Really bad movie.
Plot of this movie don't have anything related to "Hikikomori" becuz director don't even know what it is.
Spoiler....
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in this story u will see Gollum from lord of the ring in the room, guy in this room is not even human the story tell that guy in that room already dead and his mother go to school about magic!?.......
and resurrect him..... and try to hide him because don't want neighbors to know.
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i'm not joking.... this is real , fuking nonsense story and NOT RELATE TO ""Hikikomori" concept a little bit.
sorry for my bad english, but i really watch this movie it just one of ordinary ghost movie but the advertisement try to say that it about "Hikikomori"
.... the director should do some research .
Umm I think the twist is that in the end the one who lives in that room isn't her son at all. She's been feeding some stranger serial killer guy who took her son's place all these time without realizing it.
Not a bad twist.
Maybe her son moved out and got a job and she didn't notice. He'll visit with his wife and kids and that's when she realized.
This made me lol hard. Best twist so far.
Son, I am disappoint.
No, that would make too much sense. Remember, it's supposed to be an horror movie. It's probably some alien that infiltrated her son or something. Maybe her son was dead all along and it's really a ghost story. Or the mother is sick and imagines having a son, which she does not. That would make her the real culprit. Or wait, maybe it's really her son, but he thinks of himself as a woman. So many possibilities,....
I still think the only reason to watch this movie is to make fun of it. Same reason I watched (=skipped through) One Piece and Bleach.
"Or wait, maybe it's really her son, but he thinks of himself as a woman."
Goodbye Horses scene? Nah, that would be too obvious...
"I still think the only reason to watch this movie is to make fun of it. Same reason I watched (=skipped through) One Piece and Bleach."
And yet you go around with a pikachu avatar... QUALITY.
There are fails so hard, they turn in a win. Pikachu is one of them.