‘The Invisible Half’: Stylish J-horror anchored in a standout performance
Newcomer Risa Sierra plays Elena Takahashi, a high school transfer student who gets targeted by a monster with a bandaged head, in “The Invisible Half.” | © 2025 Test 8 Pictures All Rights Reserved.
Jul 31, 2026
Horror as a genre recycles more than it revolutionizes. The bandaged menaces of “The Mummy” (1932) and “The Invisible Man” (1933) are still terrorizing audiences almost a century later, if under new names and in new forms.
Their latest iterations can be found in “The Invisible Half,” Masaki Nishiyama’s polished and mind-bending debut feature, which has played widely on the festival circuit.
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