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Suicide Forest Village trailer unveils Takashi Shimizu’s new film

Posted 4 years ago

Takashi Shimizu – the director and creator of the Japanese Ju-on: The Grudge franchise – is working on a new supernatural horror film, Suicide Forest Village. It is (loosely) based on Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mt. Fuji, which is infamous as a popular...

Cube trailer teases a Japanese remake of the cult classic

Posted 4 years ago

While there have been many talks of remaking the cult 1997 indie sci-fi horror film Cube for a while now, it seems Japan has up and done one themselves. The original director, Vincenzo Natali, is even executive producing it. You can see the...

Junji Ito-inspired Funko Pops officially released!

Posted 4 years ago

A couple days ago we reported that Funko Pop has designed some grotesque and horrifying figurines, in the style of popular horror manga artist Junji Ito! This included Souichi Tsujii, Tomie Kawakami, Fuchi and Slug Girl! Now they've been offiical announced by...

Live-action adaptation of Junji Ito’s Tomie coming to Quibi

Posted 5 years ago

Mobile-only streaming service Quibi – which is still a thing apparently, even though they reportedly lost 90% of users after their free trial ended – is attempting to win those users back by adapting the popular manga TOMIE from acclaimed artist...

New photos revealed for Netflix’s upcoming Ju-On: Origins series

Posted 5 years ago

JU-ON is a classic Japanese horror franchise, which was remade for American audiences as THE GRUDGE – twice – with the last one coming out this year. However, it is still extremely popular in Japan (to the point that at...

Godzilla: King of the Monsters director wants a prequel with no humans

Posted 5 years ago

Writer/Director Michael Dougherty was recently in the news for having signed on to write HBO's upcoming HELLRAISER (sequel?) series. But before that he wrote/directed the fun and underrated (if still flawed) GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, which was about Members of...

Trailer for Kaiju mockbuster film Raiga: God of the Monsters stomps online

Posted 5 years ago

Since GODZILLA came out in 1954, kaiju films have been a mainstay in Japanese film culture. In fact, Rodan and Mothra were originally stars of their own series before joining up with Godzilla in pre-AVENGERS-esque crossovers. Now, some kaiju stood the test...

Director of Japanese cult classic Hausu Nobuhiko Obayashi passes away

Posted 5 years ago

HAUSU is probably one of the craziest filmgoing experiences I've ever had a pleasure to witness. It's beautiful to look at, surreal, and – above all else – unique. There's nothing out there quite like it. And that's all thanks to the...

Netflix has announced 12 new anime series and one full-length feature

Posted 8 years ago

Lately, I've bouncing between a few different anime offerings on Netflix, by tuning into shows and movies like: LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA, DEATH NOTE, YOUR LIE IN APRIL, and PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA. Now, it's been announced that the premiere streaming service will...

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