By Ethan Mitchell Japanese Cyber Punk is a small subgenre of horror that blends visual elements of David Lynch’s Eraserhead with the body horror of David Cronenberg, but most importantly with these films there’s a sense of seclusion and anti-establishment. Most famously done in the film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Diving deep into the … More Sick Cinema: 964 Pinocchio (1991)
Is this movie secretly an adaptation of a Haruki Murakami novella? It almost could be, except for the fact that the protagonists never sit around quietly, listening to light jazz or cooking spaghetti while their cat goes missing. Have I lost you? DAIKANYAMA WONDERLAND HORROR takes place in Tokyo, in a little hipster disctrict near … More Schlock du Jour: Daikanyama Wonderland Horror (1986)
Shochiku’s brief foray into the horror genre only produced four films. Luckily for us lovers a weirdo world cinema, these four features are vastly different. In The X From Outer Space they gave us one of Japan’s goofiest Kaiju Eiga, in Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell we’re treated to an icky alien menace and a … More The Merits of Sin: The Living Skeleton (1968) (Japan)
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