Spirit behind the Door (2014)

Premise: So this one tells the story of the so called “crevice woman”, a japanese urban legend about the ghost of a woman who appears, you guessed it, in crevices in your home. Like, you know the little gap between the wardrobe and the wall? Yup, there. How did she get there? Well, we don’t know but she’s ANGRY about it and will DRAG YOU inside that crevice and YOU WILL NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN and all that.

Under 90 minutes? yeah, it’s just a bit over an hour!
Do they say the title? Yeah… well, they do say the japanese title (“sukima onna”). I guess it counts, considering the quality of the subtitles…

First thing I thought of:

Okay, more: Funnily enough this would have worked way better as a half an hour short. The urban legend was, uh, literally the thing on the premise so it really didn’t have enough juice for an hour. There’s an attempt to flesh things out a little with another story but that’s when you realize the budget was non-existent and it kind of backfires. But yeah I guess it was a bit unfair to expect way too much from such a nothing premise.

A simple way to improve it: Something you can do with no budget that is really effective, and every single “spooky ghosts on camera!” youtube channel knows this, is just have your ghost peeking in the background of normal scenes. This movie was begging for this treatment but somehow it avoided it at all times?

Trivia about the IMDb trivia:

The movie is from Japan.