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From the brilliant and twisted mind of manga artist Shintaro Kago, a new collection of short stories rife with skin-crawling suspense, visceral body horror, and pitch-dark humor. In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago made his English debut with Dementia 21, a collection of absurdist manga short stories. Readers found themselves delighted and disgusted by his
Psychic Vision: Jaganrei is a 1988 Japanese faux-documentary/supernatural found footage horror film written by Chiaki Konaka and directed by Teruyoshi Ishii. Beginning his career in 1986 with the horror comedy short Daikanyama Wonderland Horror, Teruyoshi has since directed such films as the anthology horror Kuchisake-onna (1996) and action horror Viral Dead (2020), as well as
Celebrate renowned Hong Kong action classics, storytellers, and film icons with Shout! Studios’ new home entertainment series HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS™ Cult favourite HK movies, Hard Boiled (1992), City on Fire (1987), A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer (1989), Bullet in the Head (1999). Fist of Legend (1994), Peking Opera Blues (1986), and much more!
Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel “The Box Man” by Kōbō Abe (Woman in the Dunes), an adaptation 40 years in the making! Starring Masatoshi Nagase (Mystery Train) and Golden Globe winning actor Tadanobu Asano (Shogun) A man with a cardboard
Wings of the Abyss is a 2025 Japanese crime thriller written and directed by Yuki Kobayashi. The director is known for the action thriller Kamikaze Cowboy (2015), the comedy-drama Death Row Family (2017), and the sci-fi action thriller Rise of the Machine Girls (2019). A young intern, Jin, who loves skateboarding, struggles to balance his
Tired of the same old popular picks? Ready to challenge yourself with titles that dare to be different? We’ve handpicked eight groundbreaking anime experiences that critics and casuals alike have somehow missed — and it’s time to set the record straight. Prepare for brilliance. Kiss x Sis A bold exploration of love, boundaries, and what
Few things in life are as galvanizing as a truly remarkable film poster. Before one ever steps foot into the theater, before the flickering wizardry of the limelight takes hold of your very soul, it’s these posters—the bold splash of color, the cryptic imagery, the perfectly chosen tagline—that first whispers its enigmatic secrets to us.
The Unsolved Love Hotel Murder Case Incident is a 2024 Japanese found-footage horror film written and directed by Guy and Dave Jackson. An Osaka-based, English-born director, the mononymous Guy is known as the director of such films as The Sound of Summer (2022), as well as the short films The Rope Maiden (2013), Difficulty Breathing
2 Girls 1 Gut is a 2024 extreme horror short written and directed by Guy. A British ex-pat filmmaker based in Osaka, Japan, Guy has made a name for himself in the J-horror genre with titles such as Difficulty Breathing (2020), The Sound of Summer (2022), and the found footage horror The Unsolved Love Hotel
I have spent a significant amount of my tenure with Grimoire of Horror reviewing the latest films of Takashi Shimizu—the man responsible for the sensational Ju-On film series—and although none of his newer films have affected me as much as his earlier work (Ju-On: The Curse (2000) and Marebito (2004) specifically come to mind), I