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Tales From The Dead (2000)

Tales From The Dead poster
Original title
Tales from the Dead
Directed by
Jason Cuadrado
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A strange young girl who can talk to ghosts tells four stories about spirits seeking justice or closure. Each tale involves loss, pain, and revenge as the dead try to fix things among the living.

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What happens

Tales from the Dead is a 2007 Japanese-language American horror film written, directed, and co-edited by Jason Cuadrado. It is an anthology of four ghost stories as told by a strange young girl with the ability to communicate with the dead; the stories deal with loss, pain, and vengeance as the spirits who tell them attempt to put things right in the world of the living. The film is notable for being a Japanese horror shot entirely in Los Angeles with local Japanese actors speaking their native language, despite Cuadrado not speaking or understanding any Japanese at the time of filming. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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