The Shock Labyrinth (2009)

The movie was less than ten minutes in when I first noticed major themes and details that both appear in Takashi Shimizu's films "Tormented" and "The Shock Labyrinth". "The Shock Labyrinth" was made two years before "Tormented" and set the tone by using the same location of the fun park located in the shadow of Mt Fuji and the "hospital" neighboring it. In fact, the hospital in "The Shock Labyrinth" is actually another carnival ride, set up as a haunted house attraction. The next detail I noticed between the two films was the over emphasis on the spiral staircase; in fact, both movies center in on someone falling from the staircase. The final and most important shared detail between the two films is the rabbit doll! In "The Shock Labyrinth", the doll is actually a backpack that one of the main characters is wearing and in "Tormented", the two main characters are actually watching "The Shock Labyrinth" when the doll magically floats out of the screen and into young Daigo's hands. "The Shock Labyrinth" isn't as strong of a film as "Tormented" but it does contain more scares and overall creepy moments. 

Ken has returned to his old hometown after moving away ten years ago. While his friend Motoko is picking him up, Motoko's girlfriend Rin is visited by a panicked old friend Yuki. Motoko and Ken soon join Rin and everyone is shocked to see Yuki, who is still in a state of distress. They bring Yuki to her parents home, where her younger sister Myiu insists that Motoko is dead, at least that was what her late father had told her. Yuki is badly injured in a fall and the four teens take her to the nearest hospital, but once there, they can't find anyone to help them and Yuki runs off into the darkness. The four teens go off and look for her but begin to have visions of the past and they become aware that there are not in a hospital but in an old carnival haunted house that they had snuck into ten years ago, and quickly remember the horrible accident that occurred. The four teens are faced with the decisions that they made ten years ago and the consequences of dealing with Yuki's angry spirit.....