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Mermaid Forest is a 1991 anime OVA adapted from Rumiko Takahashi’s manga Mermaid Saga, published from 1984 to 1994. Directed by Takaya Mizutani and produced by Pierrot, the anime was followed by a sequel, Mermaid’s Scar (1993), directed by Morio Asaka, and produced by Madhouse. Yuta, a young man who accidentally consumes mermaid flesh and
In recent years, foreign films have taken the horror genre by storm with such titles as Parasite (2019), Raw (2016), and Veronica (2017). The Argentinian director Demián Rugna‘s 2023 film, When Evil Lurks aims to join the ranks of such foreign films with a new take on possession and a mix of supernatural horror and psychological
With the year drawing ever closer to its conclusion, we cast our mind’s eyes back on the monumental releases over the past 12 months. Join us at Grimoire of Horror as we contemplate some of, what we consider to be, the stand-out films that were released over 2023. List Contents: Infinity Pool (2023) Talk to
A bizarre blend of Phil Tippett’s Mad God and Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Robert Morgan’s feature debut Stopmotion (2023) is an indie horror film that weaponizes the maddening process of stop motion animation to aim at its audience’s nerve endings, with fabulously gnarly results. If Phil Tippett’s epic 2021 passion project uses stop-motion animation to look outward
Pinku softcore porn films were big business for Japanese studios throughout the 1970s; so lucrative were these films, that when Nikkatsu was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1971, they were able to save themselves by focusing almost their entire output on the soon-to-be highly successful Roman Porno line. It wasn’t just big studios such
Devils is a 2023 South Korean crime thriller, written and directed by Kim Jae-Hoon in his first feature-length work. The film stars Jang Dong-yoon (Project Wolf Hunting), Jae-ho Jang (The Spies Who Loved Me), and Choi Gwi-hwa (Train to Busan). After his brother-in-law is murdered at the hands of a vicious ring of serial killers,
Tales from the Rez is a captivating look into the ghost stories of the Blackfoot Nation, presented in a format that’s instantly familiar to lovers of horror anthologies! Director Trevor Solway worked with Blackfoot Nation Films to bring to life the stories he heard growing up on a Native Canadian reserve. These ghost stories, overheard
Romi is a 2023 Canadian sci-fi horror, written by Susie Moloney, and directed by Robert Cuffley. Susie is most notable as a writer on the TV shows Blackstone (2015), and Fear Thy Neighbor (2016), as well as on the feature-length film Bright Hill Road (2020). Robert is known for directing features such as Eyes for
Tetromaniac: 61 – Scorecard Killer is a 2023 Italian extreme horror, written and directed by Domiziano Cristopharo and Poison Rouge. Domiziano is known as the writer and director of such films as Bloody Sin (2011), and The Transparent Woman (2015). Whereas Poison Rouge is known for directing American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice (2016), and 7 Sins
Bloody Sin is a 2011 English-language Italian extreme horror film, written and directed by Domiziano Cristopharo, with additional writing from Jay Disney and Filippo Santaniello. Being particularly well-known in the Italian extreme horror scene, Domiziano is known as the creator of such films as House of Flesh Mannequins (2009), Red Krokodil (2012), and Virus: Extreme