Horror is iterative, but it just as regularly moves through the same cycles decade after decade, ostensibly breaking new ground, when in reality, the genre is simply doing what is has always done. Today's horror landscape, for as remarkable and diverse as it is, is principally a landscape of legacy sequels. The horror of yesterday is new again, and commonly, old faces and names are dredged up to headline the latest nostalgic bloodbath. Reasonably, the present iteration could be decried as Hollywood's lack of originality, though seasoned horror veterans have seen this cycle before.
The early aughts were replete with imported horrors. Hollywood studios regularly borrowed transnational scares, repackaged them, and presented them as the next big thing. They were successful, too. Gore Verbinski's "The Ring," a remake of Hideo Nakata's "Ring," grossed nearly $250 million when released in 2002. Hollywood studios also remade the likes of "A Tale of Two Sisters,...
The early aughts were replete with imported horrors. Hollywood studios regularly borrowed transnational scares, repackaged them, and presented them as the next big thing. They were successful, too. Gore Verbinski's "The Ring," a remake of Hideo Nakata's "Ring," grossed nearly $250 million when released in 2002. Hollywood studios also remade the likes of "A Tale of Two Sisters,...
- 1/14/2024
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
J-horror films, the Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium, could guarantee two things – ghastly ghostly apparitions, and sleepless nights for the viewer. Among the pinnacle of J-horror are the Ju-on films, a trilogy of terror named after a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage – all who come into contact with it are doomed! The J-horror genre proved so popular, and so scary, that numerous titles were remade for the US market, including Ju-on, which so impressed Evil Dead director Sam Raimi that he invited the director to helm two Hollywood remakes.
To celebrate the release of Arrow Video’s Ju-on: The Grudge Collection on Uhd & Blu-ray, here are six of the best scenes from the most terrifying J-horrors – watch if you dare!
Ringu (The Ring) – 1998
Based on the bestselling book by Kôji Suzuki, and directed by Hideo Nakata,...
To celebrate the release of Arrow Video’s Ju-on: The Grudge Collection on Uhd & Blu-ray, here are six of the best scenes from the most terrifying J-horrors – watch if you dare!
Ringu (The Ring) – 1998
Based on the bestselling book by Kôji Suzuki, and directed by Hideo Nakata,...
- 12/23/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
From huggable dolls coming to life as voodoo-powered murderers to lovable St. Bernards becoming rabid monsters, there’s nothing more disturbing than the subversion of innocence. That’s why the horror genre is simply chock-full of creepy children. From ghostly apparitions to undead cannibals, these pint-sized horrors make great villains precisely because of their disarming demeanor. After all, like Narciso Ibáñez’s 1976 film once asked: Who Can Kill a Child?
Of course, not all killer kids are created equal, and after our previous article celebrating some of the best Final Kids in horror, we thought that it was time to give the juvenile villains a chance to shine with a list celebrating six of the best evil child performances in horror movies. After all, every evildoer has to start somewhere…
Like last time, we’ll be choosing characters based on the child actor’s performance and memorability, not necessarily the...
Of course, not all killer kids are created equal, and after our previous article celebrating some of the best Final Kids in horror, we thought that it was time to give the juvenile villains a chance to shine with a list celebrating six of the best evil child performances in horror movies. After all, every evildoer has to start somewhere…
Like last time, we’ll be choosing characters based on the child actor’s performance and memorability, not necessarily the...
- 11/7/2022
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
Announced by Arrow Video this morning, Ju-On: The Grudge Collection is due out this December, featuring a brand new 4K restoration of Japanese classic Ju-On: The Grudge.
This one is a UK Release, headed our way on December 19, 2022.
“Ju-On”: the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed… Collected together for the first time, writer-director Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge series represents the flesh-crawling pinnacle of Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium.
The films introduce the anonymous family house in the suburbs of Tokyo where an unspeakable evil lingers alongside its residents, the ghastly mother-son pairing of Kayoko and Toshio Saeki. Shimizu’s disconcerting approach to plotting, unnerving eye for the uncanny details in the dark corners of the frame and an innate talent...
This one is a UK Release, headed our way on December 19, 2022.
“Ju-On”: the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed… Collected together for the first time, writer-director Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge series represents the flesh-crawling pinnacle of Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium.
The films introduce the anonymous family house in the suburbs of Tokyo where an unspeakable evil lingers alongside its residents, the ghastly mother-son pairing of Kayoko and Toshio Saeki. Shimizu’s disconcerting approach to plotting, unnerving eye for the uncanny details in the dark corners of the frame and an innate talent...
- 9/30/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
A cynic and observant twenty-year-old named Kenji meets the strong-build American tourist Frank in order to guide him and eventually accompany him in Tokyo’s sex district two nights before New Year’s Day.
Jack of all trades Ryu Murakami tells the story of the constant battle between western and Asian culture in the most unorthodox narrative in his short book “In the Miso Soup’, a novel published in Japan in 1997, but translated in English in the early 00’s following the trend of a Japanese literature invasion in Europe and America. Here, the subject of misinterpretation is addressed in a horrific rather than in a sociological way.
Of all the anti-heroes of contemporary literature that broke the barrier of the norm, young Kenji doesn’t look much different. In ten years, by the time of the narration of his encounter with Frank, he is going to be bleaker than Patrick Bateman,...
Jack of all trades Ryu Murakami tells the story of the constant battle between western and Asian culture in the most unorthodox narrative in his short book “In the Miso Soup’, a novel published in Japan in 1997, but translated in English in the early 00’s following the trend of a Japanese literature invasion in Europe and America. Here, the subject of misinterpretation is addressed in a horrific rather than in a sociological way.
Of all the anti-heroes of contemporary literature that broke the barrier of the norm, young Kenji doesn’t look much different. In ten years, by the time of the narration of his encounter with Frank, he is going to be bleaker than Patrick Bateman,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Christina Litsa
- AsianMoviePulse
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