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3''Marebito'' a 2004 movie by ''Creator/TakashiShimizu,'' the director of Ju-on; Film/TheGrudge. The screenplay was written by ''Creator/ChiakiKonaka''.
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5A man obsessed with fear finds his way into a warped underground labyrinth world, is menaced by [[Creator/RichardSharpeShaver "Dero" ("Detrimental Robots")]]; and rescues a feral girl (who he names F) who turns out to be a vampire, who he keeps chained up in his apartment, and feeds by killing other people and draining their blood. But is that really happening? Do any of them actually exist? Is the girl real, perhaps his own daughter who he abuses and treats like an animal, while he kills people to feed his own delusion? Or has his detachment from reality actually enabled him to stumble into a real alternate, quasi supernatural world? The ending completely refuses to resolve any of these questions; leaving them up to the viewer to answer.
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8!! Tropes in this movie include:
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10* AbusiveParents. [[MindScrew Maybe.]] [[spoiler: Towards the end, it is implied that F is actually Masuoka's daughter. If this is true, then that means he's been keeping his own daughter chained up and cut off from the outside world.]]
11* BeneathTheEarth: Masuoka travels deep under the earth to discover the meaning of fear.
12* BloodyHorror: There is a lot of focus on blood. F only drinks blood, and Masuoka kills two women and bottles up their blood for F to drink.
13* DrivenToSuicide: Masuoka's entire quest is inspired by witnessing a man stab himself to death at a subway station. His goal is to feel the safe fear that he saw in that man's eyes.
14* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: F, the girl found deep underground.
15* FanDisservice: F is completely naked when Masuoka first discovers her. Given the fact that she's chained up in a cave, it is far from sexy.
16* {{Hikikomori}}: Masuoka has a neighbour who seems to never leave her apartment, and whom he only briefly glimpses through her window.
17* FriendlessBackground: Masuoka, being the shut-in weirdo that he is, has no friends.
18* InnerMonologue: Masuoka narrates the movie in voiceover. There's probably more of his narration than there is actual dialogue.
19* KissOfTheVampire: [[spoiler: Near the end, F drinks blood directly from Masuoka's bleeding mouth.]]
20* TheMenInBlack: There's an ominous black-clad man who seems to be aware of F and wants Masuoka to take proper care of her.
21* MindScrew: And ''how.'' The vast majority of the film's events are flat out never explained, [[AmbiguousEnding leaving it up to the viewer to decide.]]
22* OneLetterName: Masuoka calls the voiceless vampire girl "F."
23* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The ghost of Furoki, the man who committed suicide, shows up every now and then to chat with Masuoka.
2455* PsychologicalHorror
25* OurVampiresAreDifferent: F doesn't talk, eat, or drink, except when Masuoka lets her drink his blood.
26* SanitySlippage: Masuoka undergoes one throughout the entire film.
27* ShoutOut:
28** The deros are taken from the writings and conspiracy theories of Creator/RichardSharpeShaver. Masuoka has a whole conversation with Furoki's ghost about Shaver, the history of HollowWorld theories, TheShangrila, and the like.
29** When arriving at the underground mountain range, Masuoka refers to them as "[[Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness the Mountains of Madness]]."
30** Masuoka also compares F to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser Kaspar Hauser]], a German man who was allegedly also raised in total darkness.
31* SnuffFilm: [[spoiler: Masuoka kills two women while recording with his camera.]]
32* SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne: Masuoka kills to provide blood for F to drink.
33* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness / UnreliableNarrator: Masuoka. It is never entirely clear whether what the audience sees is real or if Masuoka isn't just completely insane.
34* UrbanFantasy: Ostensibly. All the supernatural happenings seem to be going on the fringes and back alleys of contemporary Tokyo.
35* TheVoiceless: F doesn't speak until the penultimate scene.
36* WildChild: F seems to have grown up without any human contact in the underground world.

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