An amusement park at rest is already wrong. When the rides start moving on their own, you realize the wrongness was always the point. This is student animation that understands something most horror films miss: dread doesn't need jump scares, it needs the slow certainty that something fundamental has broken and will never work the way it's supposed to again. The rides keep turning. You watch them turn. That's all it takes. Built for people who find beauty in decay and understand that the most disturbing thing isn't what jumps at you, but what keeps moving after it should have stopped.

A dark amusement park sits motionless at first. Then, little by little, its rides start to move. Liminal Park is a horror film with a supernatural edge. It was made as a 2022 graduate work in the animation department of the Tokyo University of the Arts' Graduate School of Film and New Media.