Ghost stories are as common as horror films that reveal humans to be the ultimate monsters. Writer/Director Dave Boyle combines both into Japanese supernatural chiller Never...
Japanese filmmaker Kenichi Ugana’s extremist satire on the pursuit of perfection will make the audience wince, but left wanting more. “Because you like chairs.” There can...
Yûta Shimotsu’s sophomore feature is an enlightening social satire about the dangers of conformity and assimilation, brought to life through a chilling body horror experiment. “Japan...
The late 90s and early 2000s were dominated by J-Horror. Be it through international home video sales or blockbuster remakes, franchises like The Grudge and The...
There’s no secret formula to figuring out just the right amount of friction to include in a video game. Every player has a different level of...
The Japanese horror boom of the 1990s wasn’t just limited to film, as most of the classic survival horror franchises that we now know and love...
By now everyone should know The Ring (2002) is a remake of Ring (1998). Less known is the fact that Hideo Nakata’s momentous film was not...
In a world where over-polished corporate products dominate the media landscape while the ever-growing threat of AI-generated “art” haunts the horizon, I can’t help but remember...
There was a moment in Japanese culture when writers and filmmakers began to update centuries-old fears so that they could still be effective storytelling tools in...
From “Real Ghost Footage” compilations on YouTube to staged ectoplasmic photographs, our species has been fascinated with attempting to record the supernatural ever since it first...
The Ringu franchise has a much more convoluted history than most people realize, with Koji Suzuki’s original novel actually being part of a genre-bending trilogy that...
There was a time when it was more likely for a successful foreign film to be remade in English than see a proper release in America....
Alpha and Omega is a recurring feature that examines a famous horror director’s best critically received film and their worst reviewed installment (according to Rotten Tomatoes). It...
Unless your name is Resident Evil, there’s not a lot too cheer these days as a Japanese horror franchise. The perspective-swapping Siren has seemingly been left...
A different kind of foot fetish. Over the last few weeks, Joe and I have made a brief detour into the world of television with the...
We endure the awful Dreamcast survival horror game that’s based upon ‘The Ring’ series, the perplexing disaster, ‘The Ring: Terror’s Realm’. “[RING], a killer computer program?...
A picture is worth a thousand ghost girls (who also happen to be lesbians).
One of the best qualities in Japanese Horror is the use of atmosphere; infusing environments with a sense of dread that instills players with fear and...
Before there was Bloody Disgusting there was J-horror. And before the internet became the beast that is it today, you had to hunt down those super...
Riding high after the phenomenal success of 1997’s Final Fantasy VII, Squaresoft decided to be a little ambitious. Its next projects not only included branching out...
“Before you die, you see…The Ring!” Long black hair. Pale white skin. CREEPY. ASS. GHOST. GIRL. CAGG for short. These words could describe numerous entries into...
It has been 10 years since Kiyoshi Kurosawa unleashed a horror film unto the world (2006’s Retribution), and even longer since his smash hits Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001). He...
Dark Water, a film I love, will be hitting Blu-ray shelves next week (October 25th) from Arrow Video and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at this...
The Japanese are better at so many things than us Americans. Their reality shows where they pretty much scare people to death? So much better than...
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