The Boy from Hell (2004)
日野日出志の怪奇劇場 地獄小僧
A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.
- Date of release
- 2004-10-04
- TMDB
- 3.9 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Horror
- Director
- Mari Asato
- Collection
- Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror
Casting
- Mirai Yamamoto — Setsu
- Mitsuru Akaboshi — Daio
- Baku Numata
- Hanae Shōji
- Kanji Tsuda — Detective
- Shota Sometani
Interesting facts
Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror, also known as the Kaiki Gekijou Hexalogy, is a series of six live action Japanese horror films from Pony Canyon. Based on several manga of Hideshi Hino, the series was released theatrically in Japan in year 2004, and later released in North America in 2006.
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