I’ve been fascinated with cursed objects ever since my mom first scared me with stories about those paintings of crying children that would supposedly survive raging fires while the house around them burned. Despite later learning that most of these yarns are nothing more than urban legends, I still find myself oddly attracted to tales about evil taking on a more abstract shape.
And in honor of Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity taking the idea of cursed objects to the next level as the film unleashes horrors from its protagonist’s cabinet of curiosities, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six of the spookiest cursed objects in horror media.
For the purposes of this list, we’ll be avoiding haunted dolls like Chucky and Annabelle, as I think the article will be much more entertaining if we focus on non-humanoid objects that pose more of an abstract threat.
And in honor of Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity taking the idea of cursed objects to the next level as the film unleashes horrors from its protagonist’s cabinet of curiosities, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six of the spookiest cursed objects in horror media.
For the purposes of this list, we’ll be avoiding haunted dolls like Chucky and Annabelle, as I think the article will be much more entertaining if we focus on non-humanoid objects that pose more of an abstract threat.
- 8/22/2024
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
Karuho Shiina's enduring manga Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You is moving in leaps and bounds this summer—both because of the new season of the anime and thanks to a new collab with Under Armour! The ABC Mart store chain is collaborating with the beloved manga to promote two of Under Armour's most popular sneakers: The UA Charged Surge 4 and the UA Hovr Turbulence 2 Rs. The event is part of the store's 45th anniversary. The collab, titled "You gave me the courage to take a step forward," features brand new art by Shiina of the manga's protagonists sporting these shoes. This new art, plus original art from the manga, features in a new video for the collab: Related: Undead Unluck Anime 1-Hour Special Announced for Winter 2025 Related: From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke Season 3 Anime Releases Creditless Opening, Ending Videos Crunchyroll currently streams the...
- 8/22/2024
- by Kara Dennison
- Crunchyroll
Japanese filmmaker Kôji Shiraishi knows his way around a haunt, having established a reputation for scare crafting with documentary-style horror movies Noroi: The Curse, Occult, and A Record of Sweet Murder. The director occasionally showcased his sense of humor, dialing up the camp factor in commercial films like Sadako vs. Kayako. Kôji Shiraishi’s latest, House of Sayuri, splits the difference between serious scares and irreverent horror-comedy. A vengeful ghost doles out shocking violence in this haunted house, with a comically combative grandma standing in its way, making for a tonally disjointed effort as bizarre as that setup suggests.
After a cold open that establishes the haunting’s inciting event, House of Sayuri cuts to the present to introduce the Kamiki family, a tight-knit and cheerful group of seven who’ve just moved into the home, blissfully unaware of its history. The new home comes after years of blood, sweat,...
After a cold open that establishes the haunting’s inciting event, House of Sayuri cuts to the present to introduce the Kamiki family, a tight-knit and cheerful group of seven who’ve just moved into the home, blissfully unaware of its history. The new home comes after years of blood, sweat,...
- 8/5/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You, finally dropped its third season on August 1st! The show taught us the power of friendship, which turned shy girls into crazy romantics.
Set in Hokkaido, Kimi ni Todake is all about a high-school student named Sawako who looks a lot like Sadako from The Ring. But don’t let that fool you! She’s a sweetheart who just needs a little help. Kazehaya, the cool kid who likes her as she is, steps in and helps her grow.
With Season 3 hitting screens, fans are excited to unveil the magic of this show. If you’re a die-hard fan craving more, we’ve got you covered with top 6 shows similar to the romantic love story of Sawako that will keep you swooning!
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Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You, finally dropped its third season on August 1st! The show taught us the power of friendship, which turned shy girls into crazy romantics.
Set in Hokkaido, Kimi ni Todake is all about a high-school student named Sawako who looks a lot like Sadako from The Ring. But don’t let that fool you! She’s a sweetheart who just needs a little help. Kazehaya, the cool kid who likes her as she is, steps in and helps her grow.
With Season 3 hitting screens, fans are excited to unveil the magic of this show. If you’re a die-hard fan craving more, we’ve got you covered with top 6 shows similar to the romantic love story of Sawako that will keep you swooning!
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- 8/3/2024
- by Heena Singh
- KoiMoi
Japanese singer-songwriter imase released his new digital single song "etc" on August 2 and simultaneously posted the song's music video on his official YouTube channel . The song, which he says he created while reminiscing about his own school days, is featured as the third season of the From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke anime series. The long-awaited new season started streaming on Netflix on August 1. imase "etc" Music Video From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke Season 3 Creditless Opening Video imase made his major label debut in December 2021 on Virgin Music, a subsidiary of Universal Music. He composes all the music and writes all the lyrics himself. "etc" is his second anime theme song work, following "Utopia," t he theme song for Sand Land in 2023. He introduces "etc" on X (formerly Twitter) as "The work carefully depicts romance, friendship, and growth in high school life, so I tried to express it with falsetto,...
- 8/3/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Netflix’s animated series, From Me to You, is a beautiful high school drama that will surely make you nostalgic of all those high school crushes, first loves, and heartbreaks. I personally related to the journey of all these lead characters portrayed in the anime series. There was something unexplainable about their innocence and how they tried to come out of their shells to become a better person. Nevertheless, we will be talking about those complex feelings in our recap of the first two seasons, so without further ado, let’s dive straight into it.
How did Sawako make friends?
Sawako Kuronuma is a shy girl who was treated like an outsider because of her “weird” personality. Many people thought Sawako knew black magic, while others believed Sawako was some kind of sorcerer. They even said that looking at her for more than three minutes would cause her to haunt...
How did Sawako make friends?
Sawako Kuronuma is a shy girl who was treated like an outsider because of her “weird” personality. Many people thought Sawako knew black magic, while others believed Sawako was some kind of sorcerer. They even said that looking at her for more than three minutes would cause her to haunt...
- 8/1/2024
- by Sutanuka Banerjee
- Film Fugitives
It's like they never left. Following the much-anticipated release of Season 3 on Netflix today, the official accounts for the From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke anime released creditless versions of the new opening and ending sequences, which feature "Et cetera" by imase and "First Song Kimi ni Todoke!" by Goro Ito, respectively. From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke Season 3 Opening Video From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke Season 3 Ending Video Related: Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Anime Gets Everyone Dancing with Latest Creditless Ending Video Based on the manga by Karuho Shiina, From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke Season 3 is directed by Kenichi Matsuzawa at studio Production I.G, with series composition by Tomoko Konparu, character designs by Keiko Ota and Yuka Shibata and music by S.E.N.S Project. Viz Media publishes an official English version of the manga. Crunchyroll also streams the...
- 8/1/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
A medicine seller travels the land in search of mononoke , or spirits. It is his duty to slay them with his sword of exorcism. First, though, he must learn the form, truth and reason of the mononoke. Only then will the sword permit itself to be drawn. That is Mononoke , which despite its simple premise, is one of the most idiosyncratic anime series ever to air on television. Mononoke ’s primary strength is overpowering aesthetics. The show takes place in a past Japan of brightly colored doors and screens. These doors and screens form countless moving layers that misdirect the audience, isolate the characters and suggest hidden meanings. The camera zooms back and forth between these layers at dizzying speed. Characters move frame-by-frame, like juddering puppets, only to explode into fluid animation when pushed to their breaking point. Related: Mononoke Anime Film Sets Summer 2024 Release with New Visual, Trailer The...
- 7/25/2024
- by Adam Wescott
- Crunchyroll
Kimi ni Todoke – From Me to You Season 3, the returning anime adaptation based on the romantic comedy manga by Karuho Shiina, is heading to Netflix on August 1, 2024, and now the series has released a new trailer (below) previewing the opening theme song, “Et cetera”, which imase performs. Shueisha serialized the original Kimi ni Todoke – From Me to You manga from December 2005 – December 2017 in their Bessatsu Margaret shojo manga magazine. Viz Media also publishes an English language version. Kenichi Matsuzawa directs Season 3 at animation studio Production I.G. Tomoko Konparu provides the series composition, Tomoko Konparu and Michiko Yokote provide the scripts, Keiko Ota and Yuka Shibata provide the character designs, and S.E.N.S. Project provides the music. Kimi ni Todoke – From Me to You key art Related: Kimi ni Todoke Season 3 Anime Unveils 1st Trailer, New Visual, August 2024 Premiere Crunchyroll currently streams the previous two seasons of the series and describes...
- 7/9/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
“May December” is a drama movie directed by Todd Haynes starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.
“May December” is a cinematic gem that impresses critics and movie enthusiasts alike with brilliant performances from two of the industry’s leading actresses, a complex screenplay, stunning cinematography, a talented supporting cast, and a director who knows how to weave all elements into a special masterpiece. Rooted in the realms of discontent and deconstructed characters, the film explores the art of acting and self-discovery through the creation of a character.
Elisabeth, portrayed by Natalie Portman, is a well-known television actress preparing to play Gracie, a character played by Julianne Moore, a woman who ends up in jail for having an affair with a thirteen-year-old boy, Joe Yoo. Years after being released from prison, Joe and Gracie have a son and lead a serene life in Savannah.
The film pays homage to the cult...
“May December” is a cinematic gem that impresses critics and movie enthusiasts alike with brilliant performances from two of the industry’s leading actresses, a complex screenplay, stunning cinematography, a talented supporting cast, and a director who knows how to weave all elements into a special masterpiece. Rooted in the realms of discontent and deconstructed characters, the film explores the art of acting and self-discovery through the creation of a character.
Elisabeth, portrayed by Natalie Portman, is a well-known television actress preparing to play Gracie, a character played by Julianne Moore, a woman who ends up in jail for having an affair with a thirteen-year-old boy, Joe Yoo. Years after being released from prison, Joe and Gracie have a son and lead a serene life in Savannah.
The film pays homage to the cult...
- 7/6/2024
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
This article contains mild spoilers for "The Imaginary."
Animation and horror is a peculiar and difficult combination. Although the West has seen kids' animated movies descend into pure horror plenty of times before, it is trickier with anime, where more often than not horror is boiled down to simply a metric ton of blood or body horror. Still, even when the atmosphere of horror doesn't work in an animated movie, chances are it will still provide a horrifying monster or villain. This has been true since the early days of feature animation in the U.S., when "Snow White" gave countless kids nightmares with the Evil Queen.
That tradition has mostly gone away, as cartoons inspired by horror are becoming increasingly rare each year. This only makes the movies that do remember the power of horror in a kid-friendly setting all the more powerful. So is the case of "The Imaginary,...
Animation and horror is a peculiar and difficult combination. Although the West has seen kids' animated movies descend into pure horror plenty of times before, it is trickier with anime, where more often than not horror is boiled down to simply a metric ton of blood or body horror. Still, even when the atmosphere of horror doesn't work in an animated movie, chances are it will still provide a horrifying monster or villain. This has been true since the early days of feature animation in the U.S., when "Snow White" gave countless kids nightmares with the Evil Queen.
That tradition has mostly gone away, as cartoons inspired by horror are becoming increasingly rare each year. This only makes the movies that do remember the power of horror in a kid-friendly setting all the more powerful. So is the case of "The Imaginary,...
- 7/5/2024
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
The box office is finally seeing signs of life — once again, animation saves Hollywood — but that doesn't mean there aren't still reasons to stay at home and watch things on streaming. With the summer ramping up, and movies like "Despicable Me 4," "Twisters," and "Deadpool & Wolverine" giving us hope that the theatrical experience will remain a popular choice in the next month, we feel slightly less bad about recommending things to watch from the comfort of home.
Indeed, after a couple of slower months, Netflix is gearing up for one big summer, releasing some very highly anticipated titles, some surprising sequels, and also adding some modern classics with timely ties to movies still in theaters. With so many titles releasing on streaming every month and so little effort done by these platforms in advertising their own product, we're here to tell you what you should prioritize on Netflix in July.
Indeed, after a couple of slower months, Netflix is gearing up for one big summer, releasing some very highly anticipated titles, some surprising sequels, and also adding some modern classics with timely ties to movies still in theaters. With so many titles releasing on streaming every month and so little effort done by these platforms in advertising their own product, we're here to tell you what you should prioritize on Netflix in July.
- 6/30/2024
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
The Imaginary Image: Netflix Let’s address the big Totoro in the room right up front, shall we? The Imaginary, a new animated feature heading soon to Netflix, is not a Studio Ghibli film, though it looks and sounds an awful lot like one. There’s a good reason for...
- 6/17/2024
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
The ImaginaryImage: Netflix
Let’s address the big Totoro in the room right up front, shall we? The Imaginary, a new animated feature heading soon to Netflix, is not a Studio Ghibli film, though it looks and sounds an awful lot like one. There’s a good reason for that:...
Let’s address the big Totoro in the room right up front, shall we? The Imaginary, a new animated feature heading soon to Netflix, is not a Studio Ghibli film, though it looks and sounds an awful lot like one. There’s a good reason for that:...
- 6/17/2024
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
Hideo Nakata's 1998 J-horror sensation "Ring" ("Ringu") revolves around images, mainly the distortion of photographs that denote Sadako's (Rie Inō) marked victims, and the eerie, anxiety-inducing cursed tape that comes alive in grotesque ways. Even Gore Verbinski's 2002 remake employs this photographic distortion — smudged and blurred faces that hint at the tragedy that befell the ones photographed, as if their very souls were smudged out of the frame.
The idea that photographs capture the essence of our souls is not recent, nor is its relation to spirit photography far-fetched, as the shadows and aberrations captured are often considered proof of something amiss. When Nakata was asked about this concept in an interview with Offscreen, the director affirmed that the idea for the smudged photos was inspired by a real-life woman who could allegedly manipulate objects with her clairvoyance, just like Sadako's influence manipulated the photographs:
"Mister Takahashi, who wrote the script with me,...
The idea that photographs capture the essence of our souls is not recent, nor is its relation to spirit photography far-fetched, as the shadows and aberrations captured are often considered proof of something amiss. When Nakata was asked about this concept in an interview with Offscreen, the director affirmed that the idea for the smudged photos was inspired by a real-life woman who could allegedly manipulate objects with her clairvoyance, just like Sadako's influence manipulated the photographs:
"Mister Takahashi, who wrote the script with me,...
- 5/26/2024
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Tatsuki Fujimoto has always had an eye for talent, such could be easily seen with his former editors Tatsuya Endo and Yuji Kaku. Both of them now stand big in the world of shonen manga with Spy x Family and Hell’s Paradise. The former has already been ruling the hearts of the fans while the latter made its way to the top three of the dark shonen trio. Alongside Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man stands Kaku’s Hell’s Paradise.
Hell’s Paradise | Credit: Mappa
Each and every author has their own unique story when finding their calling for getting into their professions. From Akira Toriyama to Gege Akutami, everyone finds their calling with time. Yuji Kaku already had an interest in mangas when growing up. However, it was the genre that surprised many.
Yuji Kaku Bought Mangas Instead of Snacks
Yuki Kaku, during an interview with Crunchyroll, talked about how...
Hell’s Paradise | Credit: Mappa
Each and every author has their own unique story when finding their calling for getting into their professions. From Akira Toriyama to Gege Akutami, everyone finds their calling with time. Yuji Kaku already had an interest in mangas when growing up. However, it was the genre that surprised many.
Yuji Kaku Bought Mangas Instead of Snacks
Yuki Kaku, during an interview with Crunchyroll, talked about how...
- 5/13/2024
- by Adya Godboley
- FandomWire
Koji Suzuki's novel "Ring" was first published in 1991, and no one could have guessed that the simple, tech-based ghost story would spawn a decades-long, worldwide media franchise that incorporates multiple movies, crossovers, comics, audio dramas, and video games. If one does a deep dive into the entire "Ring" series, one will uncover a massively complicated mythos that repeatedly peels back layers of reality to reveal an onion-like media metafiction that Marshall McLuhan would be proud of.
The premise of "Ring" is wicked and fun, and would have been all the more terrifying in 1991 when VHS was still in vogue. In the book, an investigative reporter named Asakawa finds a cursed video cassette of a surreal, 20-minute short film. At the end of the video, a captain informs him that he has seven days to live. Asakawa takes the threat seriously, as several teenage girls who watched the video have already died.
The premise of "Ring" is wicked and fun, and would have been all the more terrifying in 1991 when VHS was still in vogue. In the book, an investigative reporter named Asakawa finds a cursed video cassette of a surreal, 20-minute short film. At the end of the video, a captain informs him that he has seven days to live. Asakawa takes the threat seriously, as several teenage girls who watched the video have already died.
- 5/6/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Nakata Hideo’s Dark Water is a more muted study in melancholy than Ring, which four years earlier had brought the director fame and ushered in the J-horror film invasion. Where the earlier film’s most indelible image is a lank-haired ghost girl emerging from a television set, Dark Water largely keeps its most spectral imagery in the background and slightly out of focus, evoking the slow-burn technique of John Carpenter’s Halloween.
In the midst of a difficult divorce, Matsubura Yoshimi (Kuroki Hitomi) is forced to move into rather dilapidated digs with her young daughter, Ikuko (Kanno Rio). During the course of a divorce-related interview, it’s revealed that Yoshimi spent some time in a mental facility before her marriage, owing to overwork as a proofreader of “brutal and sadistic” literature. This of course opens up the possibility that subsequent experiences of a supernatural kind may be attributable to her unstable personality,...
In the midst of a difficult divorce, Matsubura Yoshimi (Kuroki Hitomi) is forced to move into rather dilapidated digs with her young daughter, Ikuko (Kanno Rio). During the course of a divorce-related interview, it’s revealed that Yoshimi spent some time in a mental facility before her marriage, owing to overwork as a proofreader of “brutal and sadistic” literature. This of course opens up the possibility that subsequent experiences of a supernatural kind may be attributable to her unstable personality,...
- 4/7/2024
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
is a horror film directed by Alberto Corredor starring Freya Allan and Jeremy Irvine.
“Baghead” is one of those gothic horror movies with witches and legend stories reaching out to the characters from a bygone era. It might be that the effects do not work, the actors do not fully believe the script, or simply, we have seen similar stories too many times before. Simply put, a horror movie that fails to scare or fully develop.
Plot
A girl inherits an old pub from her deceased father that, coincidentally, comes with an extra: in the basement, there’s a witch that allows to communicate with the dead. The girl discovers that it’s she who controls the witch and she starts to unveil the ancient history of the witch.
Baghead About the movie
A movie that’s based on a short film by the same director, Alberto Corredor, proposes a...
“Baghead” is one of those gothic horror movies with witches and legend stories reaching out to the characters from a bygone era. It might be that the effects do not work, the actors do not fully believe the script, or simply, we have seen similar stories too many times before. Simply put, a horror movie that fails to scare or fully develop.
Plot
A girl inherits an old pub from her deceased father that, coincidentally, comes with an extra: in the basement, there’s a witch that allows to communicate with the dead. The girl discovers that it’s she who controls the witch and she starts to unveil the ancient history of the witch.
Baghead About the movie
A movie that’s based on a short film by the same director, Alberto Corredor, proposes a...
- 4/7/2024
- by Molly Se-kyung
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Fans of the romance genre eagerly awaiting the highly anticipated From Me to You Season 3 can now rejoice. Netflix has officially announced the worldwide release of this long-awaited installment, scheduled for August 2024.
From Me to You is based on the manga of the same name, written and illustrated by the popular manga artist Karuho Shiina.
Shota Kazehaya in From Me to You (Credits: Netflix)
The original manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Bessatsu Margaret magazine from 2005 to 2017, spanning an impressive 123 chapters that were compiled into 30 tankōbon volumes.
After a Decade in the Making, From Me to You Season 3 Finally Arrives
While shows like Black Butler are making a comeback after 10 years, the excitement surrounding this beloved series has been waiting for even longer.
After 13 years we’re finally getting a sequel and they are staying faithful to the old animation style
— ℗ (@Pulisicko10) April 3, 2024
We are so back pic.twitter.com...
From Me to You is based on the manga of the same name, written and illustrated by the popular manga artist Karuho Shiina.
Shota Kazehaya in From Me to You (Credits: Netflix)
The original manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Bessatsu Margaret magazine from 2005 to 2017, spanning an impressive 123 chapters that were compiled into 30 tankōbon volumes.
After a Decade in the Making, From Me to You Season 3 Finally Arrives
While shows like Black Butler are making a comeback after 10 years, the excitement surrounding this beloved series has been waiting for even longer.
After 13 years we’re finally getting a sequel and they are staying faithful to the old animation style
— ℗ (@Pulisicko10) April 3, 2024
We are so back pic.twitter.com...
- 4/4/2024
- by Mudassir Kamran
- FandomWire
1. Documentary Review: Until I Fly (2024) by Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty
At the same time though, and if one looks at the story in a wider prism, the issues with emigration and the racism that results from it are highlighted quite eloquently, along with a comment that problems like that become even more significant in small societies, where one can definitely not ‘hide in the crowd'. As such, the movie is induced with a more universal essence, which definitely helps raise the quality of its context.
2. Interview: Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty 3. Queer Japan (2019) by Graham Kolbeins
Choosing the protagonist wisely, “Queer Japan” gives space to a good sample of voices to be listened to. Butoh dancers, drag queens, club founders and owners, author of gay manga featuring bear gays, erotic drawing artist, politician. Gay, lesbian, bi, trans men, trans women, non-binary people, pansexuals, all kinds of various fetishes lovers and many many others.
At the same time though, and if one looks at the story in a wider prism, the issues with emigration and the racism that results from it are highlighted quite eloquently, along with a comment that problems like that become even more significant in small societies, where one can definitely not ‘hide in the crowd'. As such, the movie is induced with a more universal essence, which definitely helps raise the quality of its context.
2. Interview: Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty 3. Queer Japan (2019) by Graham Kolbeins
Choosing the protagonist wisely, “Queer Japan” gives space to a good sample of voices to be listened to. Butoh dancers, drag queens, club founders and owners, author of gay manga featuring bear gays, erotic drawing artist, politician. Gay, lesbian, bi, trans men, trans women, non-binary people, pansexuals, all kinds of various fetishes lovers and many many others.
- 3/18/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
As we have mentioned in the past, documentaries seem to offer much more opportunities for artistic experimentation in the last few years, through the concepts of the experimentalism and the mockumentary. Bo Wang moves a step beyond by combining the two, in a 37-minute hybrid film that has won a number of awards in festivals all over the world.
An Asian Ghost Story is screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The story unfolds through various types of cinematic elements, with the narration by the incarnate ghost of a deceased real hair donor providing the connection. A tour guide in Hong Kong, both of the present and of the past, news footage from the 60s and later on, and a dramatization of sorts where a teacher shares a story with her students (?) are just parts of the initial elements. In distinct experimental style, image and sound (narration if you prefer) do not always fit,...
An Asian Ghost Story is screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The story unfolds through various types of cinematic elements, with the narration by the incarnate ghost of a deceased real hair donor providing the connection. A tour guide in Hong Kong, both of the present and of the past, news footage from the 60s and later on, and a dramatization of sorts where a teacher shares a story with her students (?) are just parts of the initial elements. In distinct experimental style, image and sound (narration if you prefer) do not always fit,...
- 3/10/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Beloved shojo manga Kimi ni Todoke first hit the pages of Bessatsu Margaret in 2006 and ran until 2017, leaving such a lasting impact that a third season of the anime adaptation is due out later this year . But there's another reason that 2024 is Karuho Shiina's year, since it was just announced that the magazine will host a new series debut titled Toppu to Beat , her first since we met Sawako and Shota eighteen years ago, with the first chapter releasing March 13 . The story is set in a small seaside town in Hokkaido and follows a soul-searching high school girl named Nike and a boy often absent from school called Nemo. Toppu to Beat official art Related: Akira Amano Exhibition Packs 53 Iconic Characters into Official Visual Crunchyroll streams the 2009 anime adaptation of Kimi ni Todoke from Production I.G, describing the story as such: Sawako Kuronuma has had a difficult time fitting in.
- 2/13/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
This article contains spoilers for "Chucky" season 3, episode 3.
Alien vs. Predator. Freddy vs. Jason. Sadako vs. Kayako. Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash."
Throughout horror genre history, there have been numerous examples of characters crossing over into one another's universes, continuity, and canon. While cinematic universes featuring characters from other genres are all the rage these days (especially with regard to action and comic book superheroes), there remains something special about the horror crossover.
For one thing, horror was the first genre to birth a cinematic universe long before it became a buzzworthy term, thanks to Universal Pictures' "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" in 1943. For another, a horror crossover typically isn't like a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, where heroes from their own separate franchises team up to hang out, crack wise, and eventually take on a doomsday villain. Instead, it's all about the thematic weight of not one, but two...
Alien vs. Predator. Freddy vs. Jason. Sadako vs. Kayako. Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash."
Throughout horror genre history, there have been numerous examples of characters crossing over into one another's universes, continuity, and canon. While cinematic universes featuring characters from other genres are all the rage these days (especially with regard to action and comic book superheroes), there remains something special about the horror crossover.
For one thing, horror was the first genre to birth a cinematic universe long before it became a buzzworthy term, thanks to Universal Pictures' "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" in 1943. For another, a horror crossover typically isn't like a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, where heroes from their own separate franchises team up to hang out, crack wise, and eventually take on a doomsday villain. Instead, it's all about the thematic weight of not one, but two...
- 10/19/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Gore Verbinski's blue-soaked, melancholic "The Ring" incited a wave of J-horror stateside upon its release in 2002. A new century always brings new horror rules, and for the early part of this century, those rules mandated imported ghosties with tragic, complex backstories. Unlike most horror remakes, especially J-horror remakes, Verbinski's "The Ring" is arguably stronger than Hideo Nakata's original, no small feat given Nakata's status as one of this generation's premier Japanese horror auteurs. Post-millennium anxiety, digital unease, and swelling domestic discontent coalesced into more than hospitable conditions for "The Ring" to not just succeed, but succeed remarkably. $249 million worldwide isn't bad by any metric.
Beyond Verbinski's assured control of the material, the cast of new and familiar faces helped augment "The Ring's" most enduring scares. While Naomi Watts might be front and center, Daveigh Chase's contributions as chief baddie Samara Morgan cannot be overstated. With a dense,...
Beyond Verbinski's assured control of the material, the cast of new and familiar faces helped augment "The Ring's" most enduring scares. While Naomi Watts might be front and center, Daveigh Chase's contributions as chief baddie Samara Morgan cannot be overstated. With a dense,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
From the notorious play in Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow all the way up to Sadako’s viral videotape, horror writers have been fascinated with cursed media since time immemorial. After all, the idea that a piece of art can be powerful enough to affect the real world is a compelling thought in and of itself, especially when you consider that this also applies to works of evil.
That’s why it makes sense that there are so many scary movies about curses that spread through paintings, music and even video games. However, as a lifelong cinephile, I’ve always been fascinated by meta horror stories that explore the consequences of cursed films. With that in mind, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six of the scariest cursed films in horror, as movies don’t necessarily have to be real in order to scare you.
That’s why it makes sense that there are so many scary movies about curses that spread through paintings, music and even video games. However, as a lifelong cinephile, I’ve always been fascinated by meta horror stories that explore the consequences of cursed films. With that in mind, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six of the scariest cursed films in horror, as movies don’t necessarily have to be real in order to scare you.
- 8/31/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
J-Horror is among the most renowned internationally genres of Asian cinema, with the popularity of titles like “Ringu”, “Ju-on”, “Pulse” and so many others still echoing quite intensely. As such, it is quite interesting, even today, to shed a more thorough look to the roots, the motifs, and the reasons of success of these movies, also because some of the most central directors are still at large.
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As such, I have to begin the review by stating that shooting this documentary seems like a colossal endeavor, both for arranging interviews with the likes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Teruyoshi Ishii, Joji Iida, Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Mari Asato, and for tracking down Rie Ino'o, who played Sadako in the first two films, and Takako Fuji, who played Kayako in a number of entries of “Ju-on”. Add...
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As such, I have to begin the review by stating that shooting this documentary seems like a colossal endeavor, both for arranging interviews with the likes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Teruyoshi Ishii, Joji Iida, Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Mari Asato, and for tracking down Rie Ino'o, who played Sadako in the first two films, and Takako Fuji, who played Kayako in a number of entries of “Ju-on”. Add...
- 8/29/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Tattoo” is based on the story of Akiyoshi Umekawa, a Japanese mass murderer who killed a woman on December 16, 1963, and shot dead four people on January 26, 1979 during the notorious Mitsubishi Bank hostage incident. The film also signalled a change of direction for Banmei Takahashi, who was a veteran of pinku cinema up to that point, as the movie was a critical and box-office success and earned him an award for Best Director from the Yokohama Film Festival, along with a netting of 3rd best film of the year and a Best Actor for protagonist Ryudo Ozaki.
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The film begins with Akio Takeda (an alternative name was used for Umekawa) being carried in Osaka morgue after being shot by the police, with an officer informing his mother next, who believes that her son got in trouble once more. After the intro,...
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The film begins with Akio Takeda (an alternative name was used for Umekawa) being carried in Osaka morgue after being shot by the police, with an officer informing his mother next, who believes that her son got in trouble once more. After the intro,...
- 8/11/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The original horror classic, Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998) is crawling back to life on 4K Ultra HD from Arrow Video, with the upcoming release just announced this morning.
Here in the United States, you’ll be able to grab Arrow’s Ring 4K Uhd release in two different versions: The Standard 4K Version and the Original Artwork Slipcover 4K Version.
Up for pre-order now, both versions will release on September 19, 2023.
Arrow Video presents Ring, the film that started the J-horror wave, restored from the original negative in glorious 4K and supplemented by a wealth of bonus materials.
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film’s success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators,...
Here in the United States, you’ll be able to grab Arrow’s Ring 4K Uhd release in two different versions: The Standard 4K Version and the Original Artwork Slipcover 4K Version.
Up for pre-order now, both versions will release on September 19, 2023.
Arrow Video presents Ring, the film that started the J-horror wave, restored from the original negative in glorious 4K and supplemented by a wealth of bonus materials.
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film’s success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators,...
- 6/30/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
This post contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse."
"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is a triumph, a true miracle of animation, and a monumental film. Watching it today might be the closest thing to what audiences experienced back in the 1930s when Disney's animated classic "Snow White" first came out.
Everything "Into the Spider-Verse" did (which was enough to land it a spot on /Film's list of the 100 best movies of all time), its sequel does better. This is a movie that interrogates the very idea of canon in comic books the way "The Matrix Reloaded" does the Chosen One trope, while at the same time continuing to tell a poignant coming-of-age story about the web-slinger Miles Morales and giving us a new terrifying comic book villain. This movie also breaks every rule of animation to deliver one of the most visually stunning pieces of filmmaking ever made.
But one of the coolest,...
"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is a triumph, a true miracle of animation, and a monumental film. Watching it today might be the closest thing to what audiences experienced back in the 1930s when Disney's animated classic "Snow White" first came out.
Everything "Into the Spider-Verse" did (which was enough to land it a spot on /Film's list of the 100 best movies of all time), its sequel does better. This is a movie that interrogates the very idea of canon in comic books the way "The Matrix Reloaded" does the Chosen One trope, while at the same time continuing to tell a poignant coming-of-age story about the web-slinger Miles Morales and giving us a new terrifying comic book villain. This movie also breaks every rule of animation to deliver one of the most visually stunning pieces of filmmaking ever made.
But one of the coolest,...
- 6/4/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
The Ringu franchise has a much more convoluted history than most people realize, with Koji Suzuki’s original novel actually being part of a genre-bending trilogy that differs greatly from the established mythology of the films. In fact, before Sadako ever made the leap to the big screen (and consequently overseas), her first live-action appearance was in an obscure TV movie that preceded Hideo Nakata’s film by 3 whole years – and that’s not even mentioning the Korean adaptation from 1999.
My point is that the Ringu films have always thrived on iteration and innovation, with each new installment adding something new to the Suzuki’s original story and helping to propel Sadako to international infamy. These updates don’t always work, like in the case of 2012’s absurd Sadako 3D, but even then, the results are still usually entertaining. The latest of these narrative refurbishings comes in the form of Hisashi Kimura’s Sadako Dx,...
My point is that the Ringu films have always thrived on iteration and innovation, with each new installment adding something new to the Suzuki’s original story and helping to propel Sadako to international infamy. These updates don’t always work, like in the case of 2012’s absurd Sadako 3D, but even then, the results are still usually entertaining. The latest of these narrative refurbishings comes in the form of Hisashi Kimura’s Sadako Dx,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
After the success of the original film, the decision was made to explore the life of the beloved protagonist Sadako from the original Ringu with some of the same individuals behind the camera. With an adaptation of several stories in Koji Suzuki's short-story collection Birthday that contained several stories to fill in the details of Sadako's history and newcomer Norio Tsuruta filling in for director Hideo Nakata, this is a fine entry that helps to cement gaps in the story from the previous films.
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Prequel to the horror film “Ringu”, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako (Yukie Nakama) later became a vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her.
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Prequel to the horror film “Ringu”, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako (Yukie Nakama) later became a vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her.
- 5/9/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Following up on the release of the original Ringu, Kenji Suzuki's novels' were chosen as the basis for a sequel the next year which saw the release of the divisive “Spiral” arrive to conflicting reception even though it took its inspiration from the source novel. After the reaction to the film of attempting something more familiar to a crime-scene investigation that left fans of the ghost action unsatisfied, a proper sequel to the original film was commissioned with Nakata coming back to continue the saga of Sadako and her exploits to be a proper sequel to the original.
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Following the discovery of several bodies, Mai Takano (Miki Takano) is trying to learn more about the death of her professor when she hears stories about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a girl named Sadako (Rie Ino'o), who died many years earlier. Supposedly, anyone watching the...
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Following the discovery of several bodies, Mai Takano (Miki Takano) is trying to learn more about the death of her professor when she hears stories about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a girl named Sadako (Rie Ino'o), who died many years earlier. Supposedly, anyone watching the...
- 5/8/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The manga adaptation is back yet again, this time in the form of a live-action drama with upcoming stars and adorable chemistry. “From Me To You,” tells a story of kindness in a soft, easy-to-watch lighthearted drama with a lot of misunderstandings, love, and cuteness. Amongst all the fact paced content of today, sometimes something cozy is needed as a boost of energy.
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Season 1 Recap: What Happens In The Show?
“From Me To You” or “Kimi ni Todoke” follows Sawako, a freshman in high school who is misjudged by her peers as a scary and gloomy girl who wants no friends. She’s mislabeled as Sadako, the ghost of the popular Japanese horror franchise “The Ring,” because of her gloomy appearance. Sawako, though, is a very kindhearted girl who wants to help her classmates and takes on all the odd jobs that the teacher asks for because she...
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Season 1 Recap: What Happens In The Show?
“From Me To You” or “Kimi ni Todoke” follows Sawako, a freshman in high school who is misjudged by her peers as a scary and gloomy girl who wants no friends. She’s mislabeled as Sadako, the ghost of the popular Japanese horror franchise “The Ring,” because of her gloomy appearance. Sawako, though, is a very kindhearted girl who wants to help her classmates and takes on all the odd jobs that the teacher asks for because she...
- 3/31/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
With the oversaturated world of teen coming-of-age content on Netflix, it is easy to fall into a rabbit hole of overly sexualized teen shows that just glamorize the tricky parts of being a teen. Compared to the western teen world, the east prefers to teach life lessons through cute little romance shows inspired by popular anime or manga. Japan is not new to high school dramas, and “From Me to You” rekindles fond memories of school rather than bringing anything new to the screen. As someone who hasn’t watched the anime, I can absolutely understand why it would’ve been translated into a live-action show for high school students in Japan. The show subtly tackles issues such as school bullying, feeling like you’ve brought a knife in a gunfight, high-school exams, the fear of growing up, and many such struggles of a school student without ever coming across as a life lesson.
- 3/31/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke (君に届け) is a series directed by Takehiko Shinjo and Takeo Kikuchi. It is based on the manga by Karuho Shiina.
Today, we get to enjoy this Japanese series about teenage love, which is – curiously enough – about a girl called Sadako, like the girl from Ringu, and who is believed to be cursed. But not everything in life has to be a horror movie, and she meets the most popular boy in high school.
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It is a series that would be equivalent to Dawson’s Creek or something along those lines (just to give you an idea), it’s one of those initiation series that little by little show us what life is about and that, gradually – and at the protagonists’ sides – we grow up at the same time as we watch the characters grow up. It knows how to take its time,...
Today, we get to enjoy this Japanese series about teenage love, which is – curiously enough – about a girl called Sadako, like the girl from Ringu, and who is believed to be cursed. But not everything in life has to be a horror movie, and she meets the most popular boy in high school.
About the Series
It is a series that would be equivalent to Dawson’s Creek or something along those lines (just to give you an idea), it’s one of those initiation series that little by little show us what life is about and that, gradually – and at the protagonists’ sides – we grow up at the same time as we watch the characters grow up. It knows how to take its time,...
- 3/30/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
It’s been a year since Ringu‘s Sadako joined the ranks for Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight, but Dead by Daylight Mobile has sadly been missing out. Luckily, that’s been fixed with the recent update to Dead by Daylight Mobile, which has introduced the Sadako Rising Collaboration event that’s currently running from now until March 28th!
Alongside the update, which introduces a graphical overhaul to the game with new features such as the Relic System, Sadako is available as a playable Killer. Using stealth to her advantage, Sadako can teleport through TVs that appear on the map, allowing her to get the drop on any Survivors that enter her range of influence.
Sadako isn’t the only Ringu character joining Dead by Daylight Mobile, as Yoichi Asakawa is in the game as a new Survivor. Yoichi comes with the ability to stun Killers, as well as...
Alongside the update, which introduces a graphical overhaul to the game with new features such as the Relic System, Sadako is available as a playable Killer. Using stealth to her advantage, Sadako can teleport through TVs that appear on the map, allowing her to get the drop on any Survivors that enter her range of influence.
Sadako isn’t the only Ringu character joining Dead by Daylight Mobile, as Yoichi Asakawa is in the game as a new Survivor. Yoichi comes with the ability to stun Killers, as well as...
- 3/16/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Writer/Director Bishal Dutta refreshingly gives a new spin on demonic possession for his feature film debut, It Lives Inside. Dutta uses a familiar framework of teen horror as an accessible introduction to underexplored mythology exacerbated by a cultural divide and adolescence. While Dutta wears his influences on his sleeves, the gnarly new demon and the complexities of its characters mark this director as one to watch.
Like most teens, Sam (Megan Suri) wants to fit in at school, so much so that she’s tried to distance herself from her cultural background as an Indian-American teen. This includes distancing herself from former childhood friend Tamira (Mohana Krishnan), who’s taken to carrying a strange jar around, to avoid staring looks and hushed whispers. Sam’s insecurities spike when a frazzled Tamira corners her in the locker room, begging for help with a parasitic evil. In a moment of disbelief and anger,...
Like most teens, Sam (Megan Suri) wants to fit in at school, so much so that she’s tried to distance herself from her cultural background as an Indian-American teen. This includes distancing herself from former childhood friend Tamira (Mohana Krishnan), who’s taken to carrying a strange jar around, to avoid staring looks and hushed whispers. Sam’s insecurities spike when a frazzled Tamira corners her in the locker room, begging for help with a parasitic evil. In a moment of disbelief and anger,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult have a vampiric relationship that is sucking the life out of Dracula’s henchman in the first trailer for Renfield.
Universal dropped the nearly two-and-a-half-minute first look at the upcoming horror comedy Thursday, teasing the complicated — and exhausting — dynamic between Cage’s Dracula and Hoult’s henchman. Being at the beck-and-call of Dracula is demanding, and as those expectations — for the blood of nuns and cheerleaders — goes on and on, Hoult’s vampire lackey Renfield questions whether this is still the job for him.
The only problem is that the modern world is, as he says, “a dangerous place.” But with the arrival of Rebecca Quincy, a traffic cop played by Awkwafina, Renfield finally begins to feel seen and appreciated. “Did I see you cut a guy with a decorative serving platter?” she asks following an all-out brawl in a local bar where Renfield comes out on top.
Universal dropped the nearly two-and-a-half-minute first look at the upcoming horror comedy Thursday, teasing the complicated — and exhausting — dynamic between Cage’s Dracula and Hoult’s henchman. Being at the beck-and-call of Dracula is demanding, and as those expectations — for the blood of nuns and cheerleaders — goes on and on, Hoult’s vampire lackey Renfield questions whether this is still the job for him.
The only problem is that the modern world is, as he says, “a dangerous place.” But with the arrival of Rebecca Quincy, a traffic cop played by Awkwafina, Renfield finally begins to feel seen and appreciated. “Did I see you cut a guy with a decorative serving platter?” she asks following an all-out brawl in a local bar where Renfield comes out on top.
- 1/5/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s about time for Universal to start up the marketing machine for their horror comedy Dracula movie Renfield, which stars Nicholas Hoult as the title character and Nicolas Cage as his bloodsucking boss. The movie’s April 14, 2023 theatrical release date is not far away. But while we wait to see a trailer for this movie, there have been some interesting things said about it in interviews… like Cage’s list of things that have inspired his performance. He has said that his Dracula voice is meant to sound like a mixture of a Mid-Atlantic accent with some Sir Christopher Lee and a bit of Anne Bancroft. He has also said that some of his movements as the character were inspired by Sadako from Ringu. And now he has said that he was going for a sort of Andy Warhol pop art Dracula performance.
Speaking with Empire magazine (via Syfy), Cage said,...
Speaking with Empire magazine (via Syfy), Cage said,...
- 12/27/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
By now it’s safe to say that Naomi Watts is a bona fide Scream Queen. After more than a decade in small roles or B movies, the British actress finally found widespread acclaim in 2001 with David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. She followed this up with a star-making role in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring, and sky-rocketted to international fame. Watts has worked steadily since then, winning coveted parts like Ann Darrow in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Oscar Nominated roles in 21 Grams and The Impossible, and franchise fame in the Divergent series.
Born in England, Watts and her brother moved around the UK with her Welsh mother before relocating to Australia at the age of 14 where she broke into acting. Despite this international upbringing, Watts is most known in the horror world for starring in American remakes of acclaimed foreign films. Her role in The Ring was just...
Born in England, Watts and her brother moved around the UK with her Welsh mother before relocating to Australia at the age of 14 where she broke into acting. Despite this international upbringing, Watts is most known in the horror world for starring in American remakes of acclaimed foreign films. Her role in The Ring was just...
- 12/21/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
For his next career transformation, Nicolas Cage is looking to become the Andy Warhol of the undead.
Academy Award winner Cage teased upcoming dark comedy “Renfield” in a new cover story for Empire magazine. Cage stars as a modern day Dracula, whose servant Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) dreams of breaking free from his eternal tutelage under the undead bloodsucker. Renfield crosses paths with a traffic cop (Awkwafina) and mobsters, played by Ben Schwartz and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Chris McKay helms the Universal Pictures film, which is set to premiere April 14, 2023.
“When I got a sense of where McKay wanted to go, I realized the movie has a comedic, pop art attitude,” Cage told Empire. “So I thought: ‘This will be a pop-art Dracula.’ Warhol did a great black-on-black Dracula. This is in that Warhol vein.”
Cage called on original vampire masterpiece “Nosferatu” for inspiration. “I noticed all these little gestures that are,...
Academy Award winner Cage teased upcoming dark comedy “Renfield” in a new cover story for Empire magazine. Cage stars as a modern day Dracula, whose servant Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) dreams of breaking free from his eternal tutelage under the undead bloodsucker. Renfield crosses paths with a traffic cop (Awkwafina) and mobsters, played by Ben Schwartz and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Chris McKay helms the Universal Pictures film, which is set to premiere April 14, 2023.
“When I got a sense of where McKay wanted to go, I realized the movie has a comedic, pop art attitude,” Cage told Empire. “So I thought: ‘This will be a pop-art Dracula.’ Warhol did a great black-on-black Dracula. This is in that Warhol vein.”
Cage called on original vampire masterpiece “Nosferatu” for inspiration. “I noticed all these little gestures that are,...
- 12/21/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Author-director Giddens Ko (“You Are the Apple of My Eye”) returned to Golden Horse Award-winning form in 2021 with “Till We Meet Again”, a movie adaptation of his best-selling novel “God of Love”. Ko cleverly refreshes the run-of-the-mill romance genre with an infusion of local mythology about life and death. Ko reimagines his underworld as a chaotic dystopian realm, more frightening for its bureaucratic red tape and glitchy It when dealing with an overpopulation of human souls awaiting either reincarnation or eternal damnation. Traditional deities like Yama the King of Hell, his ghostbuster sidekicks Ox-Head and Horse-Face as well as the usual host of demons (including cameos by Sadako and Toshio) are not who they seem.
Kai Ko turns in an endearing performance as the happy-go-lucky Ah Lun. He suffers an untimely death, has amnesia and faces a choice to either reincarnate as a snail or join the underworld’s matchmaking...
Kai Ko turns in an endearing performance as the happy-go-lucky Ah Lun. He suffers an untimely death, has amnesia and faces a choice to either reincarnate as a snail or join the underworld’s matchmaking...
- 11/27/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has fully embraced horror in 2022. After slowly introducing new elements and genres over the past decade, the massive universe is getting spooky, particularly this year. There's "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" giving us that sweet Sam Raimi horror, with his fantastic camera work, love of practical zombies, and terrifying villains. There was also "Moon Knight" and its mix of horror and action adventure that reminded us of Stephen Sommers' "The Mummy." More recently, there was the first Marvel Studios Special Presentation, "Werewolf by Night," bringing classic horror monsters to the MCU. Now, Marvel is getting hardcore by introducing its scariest character yet: Grown-up Groot.
Kids grow up so fast. One day you have a potted sapling dancing happily to The Jackson 5 when nobody's looking, then they're the cutest baby in the galaxy dancing while his friends are in mortal danger, then they're a moody teenager obsessed with video games.
Kids grow up so fast. One day you have a potted sapling dancing happily to The Jackson 5 when nobody's looking, then they're the cutest baby in the galaxy dancing while his friends are in mortal danger, then they're a moody teenager obsessed with video games.
- 11/25/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
While promoting the 2022 psychological drama Tár, Cate Blanchett sat down with Sean Evans on First We Feast, an interview series with pop culture figures who answer questions while they eat progressively spicier food. In between bites of spicy Hot Ones wings, Evans asks Blanchett what her "scariest, quintessential" movie to watch on Halloween is. She replies the original version of "The Ring," "Ringu" directed by Hideo Nakata. Blanchett discusses her first experience watching the eerie film:
"We got so scared, we're in the house by ourselves, we got so scared back in the days of VHS that we had to, we turned the sound down, and then we watched it fast-forwarded, and we were still s****ing our pants. But that's how scary it was."
/Film's 20th anniversary retrospective piece about the American remake "The Ring" describes it as a powerful work with an "impactful horror story, one that has...
"We got so scared, we're in the house by ourselves, we got so scared back in the days of VHS that we had to, we turned the sound down, and then we watched it fast-forwarded, and we were still s****ing our pants. But that's how scary it was."
/Film's 20th anniversary retrospective piece about the American remake "The Ring" describes it as a powerful work with an "impactful horror story, one that has...
- 11/1/2022
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
It is very easy to underestimate the importance of a good, spooky horror soundtrack. Sound effects get all the glory for creating effective scares that make us jump out of our seats, but a great horror soundtrack can keep us up all night and make a horror movie iconic. After all, what would "Jaws" be without John Williams? What would "Suspiria" be if the gorgeous visuals weren't accompanied by the sounds of Goblin? Or "The Exorcist" without that 15-second bit from the absurdly long "Tubular Bells?"
Though it's hard to forget the sight of the iconic Sadako coming out of the TV, props should also be given to Hans Zimmer and his rare horror movie score in Gore Verbinski's "The Ring." Eclipsed by the long-lasting success of his "Gladiator" and coming out before Zimmer's one-two punch of "Madagascar" and "Batman Begins," his score for "The Ring" never quite...
Though it's hard to forget the sight of the iconic Sadako coming out of the TV, props should also be given to Hans Zimmer and his rare horror movie score in Gore Verbinski's "The Ring." Eclipsed by the long-lasting success of his "Gladiator" and coming out before Zimmer's one-two punch of "Madagascar" and "Batman Begins," his score for "The Ring" never quite...
- 10/31/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Western remakes of Japanese horror movies almost always miss the mark. More often than not, they are a shell of their original selves, sanding down deep allegories or cultural differences in order to appeal to the widest general audience. The vast majority of the time, it actually ends up backfiring significantly as this broader scope comes across as more pandering than anything. While these remakes are still a thing, they aren't nearly as prominent as they used to be throughout the 2000s.
Funnily enough, it was perhaps the first major remake that still remains one of the best. In 2002, Gore Verbinski brought the terrors of "The Ring" to American audiences, adapting the 1998 film "Ring" (aka "Ringu") by Hideo Nakata. While the original film's evil spirit Sadako is a uniquely Japanese ghost called a yūrei, the themes of the horrors of rapidly-adapting technology could easily be replicated for any culture. Many similar movies based on Japanese,...
Funnily enough, it was perhaps the first major remake that still remains one of the best. In 2002, Gore Verbinski brought the terrors of "The Ring" to American audiences, adapting the 1998 film "Ring" (aka "Ringu") by Hideo Nakata. While the original film's evil spirit Sadako is a uniquely Japanese ghost called a yūrei, the themes of the horrors of rapidly-adapting technology could easily be replicated for any culture. Many similar movies based on Japanese,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
As we recently told you, a brand new film in The Ring franchise is headed our way this year, with Sadako Dx once again bringing iconic horror villain Sadako out of her creepy well.
The Japanese film is headed to theaters in Japan on October 28, and the film’s official Twitter account has shared a creepy new video that seems to be viral marketing for the film.
The video, entirely in Japanese, watches along as Sadako herself sits in a darkened room lit only by two candles, and it essentially plays out like a creepy Sadako Yule Log of sorts.
Check out the video below, with the film’s teaser trailer underneath.
From director Hisashi Kimura, Sadako Dx stars stars Fūka Koshiba as Fuka Ichijo, a college student with 200 Iq who tries to unravel the curse of Sadako.
In the film, “The curse has mutated, spreading at great speed via the internet,...
The Japanese film is headed to theaters in Japan on October 28, and the film’s official Twitter account has shared a creepy new video that seems to be viral marketing for the film.
The video, entirely in Japanese, watches along as Sadako herself sits in a darkened room lit only by two candles, and it essentially plays out like a creepy Sadako Yule Log of sorts.
Check out the video below, with the film’s teaser trailer underneath.
From director Hisashi Kimura, Sadako Dx stars stars Fūka Koshiba as Fuka Ichijo, a college student with 200 Iq who tries to unravel the curse of Sadako.
In the film, “The curse has mutated, spreading at great speed via the internet,...
- 9/9/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Marie Iitoyo, Yu Inaba, Shota Sometani | Written and Directed by Hirotaka Adachi
The first film I watched from this year’s Fantasia Festival was a J-Horror sequel in the form of Sadako. My latest viewing is a movie that is heavily influenced by the best crop of J-horror in the late nineties and early two thousands, Stare.
In the same style as those J-Horror movies, we follow a couple of friends who are linked through some gruesome and surprising deaths. People’s eyeballs are exploding from them and autopsies are showing that the victims had heart attacks. But even when the murdered had someone standing right next to them at the point of death, no-one is exactly sure how they are happening. But we join a few main characters who start to investigate the deaths.
Stare wears its obvious influences on its sleeve. There’s no hiding the fact...
The first film I watched from this year’s Fantasia Festival was a J-Horror sequel in the form of Sadako. My latest viewing is a movie that is heavily influenced by the best crop of J-horror in the late nineties and early two thousands, Stare.
In the same style as those J-Horror movies, we follow a couple of friends who are linked through some gruesome and surprising deaths. People’s eyeballs are exploding from them and autopsies are showing that the victims had heart attacks. But even when the murdered had someone standing right next to them at the point of death, no-one is exactly sure how they are happening. But we join a few main characters who start to investigate the deaths.
Stare wears its obvious influences on its sleeve. There’s no hiding the fact...
- 7/22/2019
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
In an amazing coincidence that I presume will become more and more common as time goes along, Fantasia 2019 boasts not just one, but two films that utilize people entering buildings wherein deadly tragedies have occurred as a method of building their social media presence. The first was Nakata Hideo's opening night film, Sadako, the second is director Kimo Stamboel's solo directing debut DreadOut, a kind of free-form adaptation of a popular Indonesian video game. The two films may share similar plot devices, and even a few similar elements - both use open wells as central locations, oddly - but they couldn't be more different in execution. For those without the patience to explore the mythology of Nakata's Sadako, Stamboel presents more of a rousing...
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- 7/18/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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