Fatal Frame III, also known as Zero ~shisei no koe~ in Japan and Project Zero III: The Tormented in Europe, is the third instalment to the Fatal Frame video game series. The game focuses on Rei Kurosawa, a photographer who has recently lost her fiancée, Yuu, in a tragic accident. In order to get her mind off of him, Rei takes random jobs. After developing the pictures she discovers that one of them is of Yuu. Determined to find out what is happening, she returns to the haunted house and enters the dream world known as the "Manor of Sleep". The central antagonist of the game is a tattooed female ghost, whose tattoo very much resembles the one Rei has. This tattoo grows over the span of the game until the ghost is finally encountered.

Unlike the previous game, the dominant contrasting colour throughout the game is a luminescent but sombre blue, signifying and setting the tone for the theme of dreams and ethereal slumber.