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Sweet Home (1989)

Sweet Home poster
Original title
スウィートホーム
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genre
fantasy film, horror film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A TV crew goes to an abandoned mansion to film a documentary about a missing painter. They encounter a vengeful ghost and must survive the house's deadly traps.

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What happens

Sweet Home (Japanese: スウィートホーム, Hepburn: Suwīto Hōmu), also known as The Mamiya House, is a 1989 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and produced by Juzo Itami. It was released alongside a video game, Sweet Home, that inspired the Resident Evil game series released by Capcom. Special makeup effects in the film were done by Dick Smith. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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