Cure

cure is the kind of horror that doesn't need a villain, just a question and enough silence for it to spread kōji yakusho plays a detective going case to case, each one different and each one the same — ordinary people committing violence they can't explain, right after a stranger asked them one simple, patient question the empty rooms, the flat lighting, the way nothing is scored to tell you how to feel — it lets the dread build entirely on its own i keep replaying every conversation i've had this week just to check nobody asked me a question like that "who are you?"