They say you can’t buy happiness, but you can sacrifice for it—literally. Best Wishes to All is another Shudder original coming to greet us with a bloody smile this June 2025. This movie is going to teach us a disturbing tradition of how one can obtain happiness, even though it is limited luxury in the world.
Best Wishes to All, Trailer Insight
On June 13th, 2025, Shudder Original will debut a new Japanese horror film from the twisted minds of Yûta Shimotsu and Takashi Shimizu called Best Wishes to All. The movie poster’s quote is enough to capture the motive and foreshadowing of what we will sacrifice to just possess a morsel of happiness. Japanese horror has the upper hand in the world of perturbing events and situations at make normal moments seem suspicious and foreboding.
The trailer begins with a girl traveling to visit her grandparents during a school break, but soon devolves into a tense atmosphere after her elders ask if she is happy. Gruesome imagery and worrisome dialogue of the community harboring a dark secret reach a peak when the main character starts to fall under their ritualistic spell. The pure chaos of the cut scenes portrays a whirlwind of fear and strange but gory joy. Bloody smiles and tears, a mutilated man, and the mundane calm of the community will send chills down our spines.
Will We Be Happy With It?
From the trailer so far, Best Wishes to All promises to be a bloody ordeal of suspense and will not pull any punches. We don’t have a solid clue of what to expect story-wise, however, we can expect this upcoming piece will be worth watching. Bloody Disgusting has reported that the film won the “Scariest Feature” award at the Overlook Film Festival. They comment that despite it not being a masterpiece, you will not be disappointed by the unique Japanese horror style of soul-crushing the last bit of humanity right out of us.
Final Thoughts
In times of chaos and everyday worry, happiness is becoming an endangered feeling. Best Wishes to All’s concept will play with an unsettling, intrusive thought of being willing to do whatever it takes to reach some contentment. Amid that starvation, the people reasoned that desperate measures must be taken. Clawing the way through blood, sweat, and tears, they will not stop until we cradle that blissful piece in our gnawed hands. And we can’t wait to see what they will do in June.
