[a fool in paradise]

This is a society where hit films and dozens of knockoffs feature plotlines where someone plays a cursed video tape, answers a cursed phone call, or visits a cursed website, and then is haunted/killed/suicides.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yeah. However, they do make genuinely creepy horror movies, which can traumatize viewers without much blood and gore.

I heard a story that, years ago, a Japanese language class at some prep school included the viewing of one of such Japanese movies. Students had nightmares for days after seeing the movie. The instructor received an warning from school administration.