Haze
- Thursday, Oct 30, 2025, 6:00pm
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)
Twenty years ago, irreverent Japanese genre wizard Shinya Tsukamoto (TETSUO: THE IRON MAN) wrote, directed, and starred in the truly frightening, claustrophobic experience known as HAZE.
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge his way towards freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
“…packed with tense atmosphere and wonderful sound design.” Niina Doherty, HorrorNews.net
“Many directors would no doubt take a god’s-eye perspective of Haze’s hero, but Tsukamoto favors an intimate camera style that offsets the genre film sturm und drang and grounds his movie in a terrifyingly mortal perspective.” Keith Uhlich, Slant