It's been awhile since J-horror has been at the forefront of the genre, but it still has a lot of fans so when word of the worldwide release of Alter Ego, an "undiscovered" film from 2002 that Takashi Shimizu was involved with, we figured you'd want to hear about it.
From the Press Release:
Eagle One Media is proud to announce it will distribute Takashi Shimizu’s undiscovered Japanese film Alter Ego to worldwide audiences for the first time.
Shimizu, the famed director behind The Grudge and Ju-on horror franchises, was intimately involved as a supervising director on Alter Ego, and the feature film has never before been released outside of Japan. A North American DVD is set for February 18 with the film immediately available on digital platforms iTunes and Amazon Instant.
Produced by King Records, Alter Ego features the involvement of some of the masters of today’s Japanese horror...
From the Press Release:
Eagle One Media is proud to announce it will distribute Takashi Shimizu’s undiscovered Japanese film Alter Ego to worldwide audiences for the first time.
Shimizu, the famed director behind The Grudge and Ju-on horror franchises, was intimately involved as a supervising director on Alter Ego, and the feature film has never before been released outside of Japan. A North American DVD is set for February 18 with the film immediately available on digital platforms iTunes and Amazon Instant.
Produced by King Records, Alter Ego features the involvement of some of the masters of today’s Japanese horror...
- 2/10/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes DVD release details for Chastity Bites, trailers for Alter Ego and Founders Day, The Walking Dead Hawaii poster, reviews for The Halloween Experience: Volume One, Open Grave, and Still: The Web Series, and much more:
Chastity Bites DVD Release Details: “Grand Entertainment Group (Geg) wants You to celebrate “Women in Horror” month this February with the DVD release of Chastity Bites on February 11. The horror-comedy, which has been slaying festival audiences and has been praised by media, is created by a team of strong and vibrant women including writer/producer Lotti Pharriss Knowles, co-producer Wendi Mirabella and executive producer/lead actress Allison Scagliotti (Syfy’s “Warehouse 13″).
Directed by John V. Knowles (Shadow.Net), the film stars Francia Raisa (ABC Family’s “Secret Life of the American Teenager”); Louise Griffiths...
Chastity Bites DVD Release Details: “Grand Entertainment Group (Geg) wants You to celebrate “Women in Horror” month this February with the DVD release of Chastity Bites on February 11. The horror-comedy, which has been slaying festival audiences and has been praised by media, is created by a team of strong and vibrant women including writer/producer Lotti Pharriss Knowles, co-producer Wendi Mirabella and executive producer/lead actress Allison Scagliotti (Syfy’s “Warehouse 13″).
Directed by John V. Knowles (Shadow.Net), the film stars Francia Raisa (ABC Family’s “Secret Life of the American Teenager”); Louise Griffiths...
- 2/9/2014
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On, 7500) served as a "supervising director" on a new Japanese film called Alter Ego and it appears it is finally making its way to the U.S. (the film was made a decade ago). We have a trailer inside.
This J-horror offering combines a spooky ol' abandoned school (naturally) with three young models who are using the building as the backdrop for their first photo shoot.
Without warning strange events begin occurring that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity as one by one they begin dying an agonizing and painful death. Deaths seemingly caused by none other than themselves. Issei Shibata directs.
Eagle One Media is handling Alter Ego's release, but it has not set a release date yet. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime, check out the trailer inside.
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This J-horror offering combines a spooky ol' abandoned school (naturally) with three young models who are using the building as the backdrop for their first photo shoot.
Without warning strange events begin occurring that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity as one by one they begin dying an agonizing and painful death. Deaths seemingly caused by none other than themselves. Issei Shibata directs.
Eagle One Media is handling Alter Ego's release, but it has not set a release date yet. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime, check out the trailer inside.
Read more...
- 8/15/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Phantom Film has released the first five minutes of Real Onigokko 2, the slightly bigger budget followup to Issei Shibata‘s 2008 sleeper hit The Chasing World.
In the original film, Takuya Ishida played a high school kid named Tsubasa Sato who gets sucked into a parallel world where everyone named Sato are relentlessly hunted by soulless masked soldiers under orders from a malevolent king. Due to circumstances which are never really explained, a death in the parallel world would cause the same person to mysteriously drop dead in Tsubasa’s own world. Thus, he spends the entire film desperately trying to protect the alternate version of his sister, Ai (Mitsuki Tanimura).
In this film, Tsubasa finds himself stuck in yet another world where people named Sato are hunted, but this reality is ruled by a shogun named Suzuki. Tsubasa again tries to protect another version of his sister, this time played by Jun Yoshinaga,...
In the original film, Takuya Ishida played a high school kid named Tsubasa Sato who gets sucked into a parallel world where everyone named Sato are relentlessly hunted by soulless masked soldiers under orders from a malevolent king. Due to circumstances which are never really explained, a death in the parallel world would cause the same person to mysteriously drop dead in Tsubasa’s own world. Thus, he spends the entire film desperately trying to protect the alternate version of his sister, Ai (Mitsuki Tanimura).
In this film, Tsubasa finds himself stuck in yet another world where people named Sato are hunted, but this reality is ruled by a shogun named Suzuki. Tsubasa again tries to protect another version of his sister, this time played by Jun Yoshinaga,...
- 5/25/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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