New Group

A suffocating, surreal slide from everyday school pressure into eerie conformity horror, tense and quietly absurd.

Directed by

Yûta Shimotsu

Genres

Science fiction, Thriller, Horror

Starring

Anna Yamada, Yuzu Aoki, Pierre Taki

Overview

Ai is a high school girl who feels suffocated by social pressure, but finds it hard to fight going with the flow. One day, the people in her school inexplicably start to form a human pyramid. The principal and other teachers start to act weird and encourage taking part in it, and the various gymnastic formations start to spread and take over the whole town. Eventually only Ai and Yuu, a transfer student who finds it hard to fit in, are left to rebel against the conformity madness.

How it feels

Eerie, tense, absurd and dark. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, identity, rebellion, conspiracy

Content

Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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