There are those horror films that exist that for all intent and purposes are cursed films. Those films you watch that afterwards makes you feel uneasy, questioning if you have been cursed. Enter Incantation a brilliant found footage J horror that will take you on a journey you will never forget. We are introduced to […]
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When the found footage subgenre was really tipping back and forth between innovative and overplayed after the smash-sucess of ‘The Blair Witch Project’, there were a handful of outliers that really stand strong all these years later. One of the most effective ones was a film that was relatively unseen for decades – Japan’s ‘Noroi:
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Japanese ghost stories have become so timeless and pronounced that they are almost just as widely known by Western audiences as they are in their homes. The early 00’s saw a big J-Horror remake trend where we were given American versions of highly regarded classics such as ‘The Grudge’ and ‘Ringu’, and while some of
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The lore of Japan’s Aokigahara (AKA ‘the suicide forest’) has grown to reach everywhere in the world, including modern Western culture. The idea of a forest that has an energy that calls for hurting people to enter and take their own lives is not only a scary idea, but also a pseudoreality. While there isn’t
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‘Jigoku’ translates to ‘Hell’ in Japanese tongue. And while this film is 60 years old, it has some of the most transgressive, arguably explicit images of Hell that you’re apt to see. When two friends do a hit-and-run, their consciences are ridden with guilt until they meet their own demises. And from then on, we
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