Japan
2023 47 mins
OV Japanese
Subtitles : English
While on a fun excursion together, teenager Tamahi and her two friends Yu and Aki pass in front of a foreboding, dilapidated apartment complex. Immediately, bad things start to happen. Tamahi runs into the courtyard of the complex, followed by Aki, who suspects the grim concrete edifice might be a “carabi-yau” — a place where people suddenly disappear and never return. There are rumours of an experiment gone wrong at a nearby facility years before, but what the three girls will come face to face with on this ill-fated day will go far beyond any scientific explanation...
In 2018, Fantasia world-premiered ARAGNE: SIGN OF VERMILLION, an indie horror-anime feature created alone by Japanese director, writer, composer, and animator Saku Sakamoto. He returns to the twisted world he imagined with FEAST OF AMRITA, a brand-new prequel that stands firmly on its own, again descending into his mind-scarring melange of modern urban gothic, skin-crawling bio-horror, and impossible cosmic abomination, all unfolding with the deranged logic of an unrelenting nightmare. – Rupert Bottenberg