Aimee Kuge’s directorial debut feature, Cannibal Mukbang, dares to ask, “How far would you go for love?” This unsettling yet darkly compelling film explores some of society’s most intimate, and often destructive, relationships: with food, with sexuality, and with one another. Through the visceral lens of performative social media and the primal taboo of cannibalism,

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  TetroVideo is pleased to announce the distribution of Mors Omnia Solvit (aka “Frammenti – I Veneratori di Morte”), the Italian occult film produced and directed by Congrega Esoterica Padovana. Presented by the extreme label together with DarkVeins Records, Mors Omnia Solvit is a provocative film about death and Satanism and is inspired by extreme

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Here at the Grimoire of Horror, we were excited to take a look at the third volume of Halloween Girl, entitled Halloween Girl: Gods & Monsters. You can see our thoughts on the first two volumes here and here to see if this graphic novel series is one that piques your interest for Halloween tales year-round.

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It is no mystery to seasoned J-horror fans that many of the most prolific directors of the genre started their careers making low-budget short films for television or straight-to-video productions, otherwise known as V-cinema. Takashi Shimizu of Ju-On fame, for example, dipped his toes in the waters of V-cinema with 4444444444, In a Corner, and

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Kinbaku Flower, Blood Mania, eROTik 2, and Eros&ARThanatos among the new TetroVideo releases TetroVideo is back with a rich pre-order (from June 4 to June 23 on the official TetroVideo and Goredrome websites) dedicated to the new Ultralimited Mediabooks, available in two Covers, with numbered and personalized Blu-rays, Booklet, 4 Cards, Certificate, and Slipcover (the

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There’s something thrilling about watching a seasoned director’s first film. It’s like discovering the blueprint of what’s to come—a raw, unfiltered glimpse into the voice they’ll refine over the years. Sure, it may be rough around the edges, but you start spotting those telltale signs: the themes, the tone, the obsessions that will come to

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Six days of unforgettable cinema experiences are over. In its 25th anniversary edition, the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection once again set an audience record with around 20,000 visitors over six days and confirmed its position as the film festival with the largest audience in Hesse. Most of the film and cultural events at the

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Hotspring Sharkattack (also known as Onsen shâku) is a 2024 Japanese action comedy film written and directed by Morihito Inoue in his feature debut. There have been cases of mysterious disappearances of onsen visitors in Atsumi city in S prefecture. The victims were eventually found dead with signs of severe injuries to their bodies resembling

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