What you're watching isn't a narrative. It's a man documenting his own dissolution, frame by frame, in the dead hours of a dorm room where he thought he might not wake up. The floating images aren't metaphor, they're the literal residue of exhaustion made visible, each exposure a ghost of the body that's still moving because it has to. Ito built this in the margins of his own collapse, which is why it feels less like horror and more like testimony.

Takashi Ito's horror film grew out of an idea that came to him while making Thunder: images that seem to hover in midair. Every moment was captured one frame at a time using long exposures. Ito shot it late at night in the company dorm where he lived, after returning from work, at a time when he was getting only about two hours of sleep each morning before heading back to his job.