According to Variety, MGM has hired the writing team of Stiles White and Juliet Snowden to pen the obligatory remake of Poltergeist. Originally scripted by Steven Spielberg (and others) and directed by Tobe Hooper, the 1982 PG horror movie told of a family being tormented by the ghosts trapped in their home. Craig T Nelson [...]

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After the experimental but ultimately disappointing Loft (review), Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with Retribution, a crime thriller with ghostly elements akin to Cure and Kairo. While I won’t tout this as Kurosawa’s return to form, it is a culmination of many of his films previous styles, and once again has a lot to say [...]

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Ghost cat films, based on Japanese folklore, were abundant in the 1950’s and 60’s. Films such as Nobuo Nakagawa’s Black Cat Mansion, Kenji Misumi’s Ghost Cat: Wall of Hatred, and Yoshihiro Ishikawa’s The Ghost Cat of Otam-ag-Ike cemented the genre as effective as well as profitable. So an entry from 1968 may seem little [...]

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I definitely get a kick out of anthology flicks. They’re generally a fun diversion, and if one segment sucks, you know it won’t last too long and you’ll be on to the next pretty soon. The horror anthology in Japan can be traced back all the way to Masaki Kobayashi’s masterpiece Kwaidan, but thanks [...]

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In a new telling of the Hans Christian Anderson tale of a pair of cured red shoes, Yong-gyun Kim delivers The Red Shoes, a film detailing the plight of a single mother who finds a pair of red shoes and decides to take them home and wear them. She soon finds out that she [...]

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