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Film Review: I Drink Your Blood by David Durston

Jim Cox Jan 13, 2021
Film Review: I Drink Your Blood by David Durston

B-movies have become a staple in popular culture over the recent years, with cult classics from the 1970s and 1980s finally receiving the wider attention…

Overlooked J-Horror: Director Koji Shiraishi

Straight Outta Kanto Jan 12, 2021
Overlooked J-Horror: Director Koji Shiraishi

Konnichiwa! Ni Hao! Hola! Straight Outta Kanto here with a little director spotlight for you this week! Just like you guys I am a die-hard…

Anime Review: The Magnetic Rose, a Sci-Fi Horror by Kōji Morimoto

Jim Cox Jan 11, 2021
The Magnetic Rose OVA

Isolation and vast emptiness are a very basic fear for humanity, the mind often creating horrors far greater than anything set in reality as paranoia…

Japanese Folklore: The Bakenko and Nekomata as Spirit Cats

Grimoire of Horror Jan 11, 2021
Ume no Haru Gojūsantsugi" (梅初春五十三駅) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. A shapeshifting cat. A kabuki that was performed in 1835

The Bakeneko (化け猫, “changed cat”) is a mischievous yōkai in Japanese culture that is one of the more commonly found ghosts in Japan. A Bakeneko…

Japanese Folklore of Fate/Grand Order: The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Victor Lacerda Jan 7, 2021
Folklore-fate-grand-order

You may already be aware of the hit mobile game Fate/Grand Order, which has a really fun mix of anime, historical figures, folklore, waifus and…

Interview: Matthew Meyer “There’s Essentially a Yokai for Every Occasion”

Jim Cox Jan 6, 2021
Interview-with-artist-historian-matthew-meyer

Mathew Meyer’s is an American artist best known for his traditional Japanese style representations of Yokai, drawn with loving detail to the woodblock printing technique…