The horror movie that was shelved after killing 86 viewers returns to the cinema

The film "Antrom: The Deadliest Movie Ever Made" goes back to Japan in 20 years since it was shelved - after allegedly backing the lives of 86 people watching it. Its creators believe that the film is cursed and contains a section that anyone who sees it is sentenced to safe death. Soon in Israel?

The horror movie that was shelved after killing 86 viewers returns to the cinema

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We all know Samara's deadly tape from "The Clear" that informs the viewer that he has seven days to live - but who would believe such a tape exists in reality? "Antrom" is a movie that was produced in 1979 and played in 1993 after it was claimed to be "cursed" and kills anyone watching it. The fictional film, dressed in the least of a documentary, allegedly contains a short and "secret" section that only some people can see - and these are the ones who will find their death soon after.

Two seemingly historic events back the film's bitter fate. The first is the first screening of the film during a Budapest film festival in 1988, where the auditorium in which the film was set was on fire and resulted in the deaths of the 56 viewers inside. The second fatal incident happened in the second screening of the San Francisco movie in 1993, in which 30 viewers were killed after the structure exploded. The horror film producer Eric Turtin learned about the film at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in late 2018 and was determined to give him a third chance and distribute it to the public in hopes that he would not back victims. He closed a deal with Uncork'd Entertainment to screen the movie during 2020 in movie theaters across Japan - and it is unclear whether the film will also hit screeners in Israel.

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Poster "Antrom: The Deadliest Movie Ever Made" (official website)

The movie "Antrom" (Photo: IMDB, official website)

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The movie "Antrom" tells the story of brothers who mourned the death of their beloved dog and decided to dig a hole in Hell for the purpose of regaining their soul. The film is the product of the work of David Amito and Michael Lissini, who themselves shied away from the film after it was screened and claimed that a short section in it is not something they are responsible for. Of course, there's no better way to promote a horror movie than to make it "dangerous to watch," so this may be a pre-planned strategy.

The brothers try to revive their dogs (screenshot, YouTube)

The movie "Antrom" (Photo: IMDB, official website)

The movie has a section that only those who can see it will find their death (screenshot, YouTube)

The movie "Antrom" (Photo: YouTube, screenshot)

The film is also available for viewing on Amazon Prime and those who watched it at home, it seems, are indeed alive. Many said they could barely survive - some that found him too scary to watch and others bored to death. "Antrom was very effective in making me feel like I was watching something I shouldn't see. Super scary, uncomfortable, disturbing, but I couldn't take my eyes off it," wrote a viewer in response to IMDB, where the film received a low score (4.8 out of 10) . Another viewer thought differently: "I really tried to give this film a chance. I liked that it was a movie that was supposed to 'kill you', but it didn't give that feeling. Except for one disturbing scene (the devil scene), the rest of the movie was just uninteresting."