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International horror: J-horror, European extremity, Latin American shocks and the films Hollywood keeps remaking.
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ForeignHalloweenNetflix
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s check out the NETFLIX original, Sirius the Jaeger. Sirius the Jaeger (2018) follows a group of vampire hunters known as Jaegers who go to 1930’s Japan after chasing a group of vampires from China. Among the team of Jaegers is a man named Yuliy, the last living “Sirius”, a member of an ethnic group of Werewolves. Things get tricky when Yuliy finds his out his dead older brother is still
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Oh look, more vampires in Vampire Knight! Vampire Knight (2008) follows Yuki, a girl who was saved by a vampire when she was young, years later she now serves on a protection committee at an elite boarding school to protect the Day Class from the Night Class (which is made up of vampires) who’s head of the group is the vampire that saved her when she was young and had now
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s play a game with King’s Game: The Animation. King’s Game: The Animation (2017) Is about a class of students who all receive a mysterious text message telling them that they’re in The King’s Game, and when the King gives an order to a particular student, they must perform it or be punished (killed), one of the students in the class has played the game before and was the lone survivor.
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Writer-director Angel González‘s award-winning Spanish horror-thriller Compulsion is headed your way this October. “A fairytale relationship comes to an end when a shy woman suspects that her boyfriend is cheating on her. She follows him and sees him meeting up with another woman. Although devastated, she decides not to tell her boyfriend in order to learn more about his lies. But when she finds out the dark and deadly secret he’s been hiding, her life turns into an endless nightmare.” Starring Susana Abaitua, Pol Cardona, Marina Esteve, and Paco Manzanedo, and produced by González and José Pastor, Compulsion is out On Demand on October 27th from Level 33 Entertainment.
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ForeignIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Genre specialist sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired Australian horror “The Slaughterhouse Killer.” We’ve got the new trailer that teases a dark and brutal indie film. A passion for slaughter keeps Box in line at the local abattoir where he can quench his thirst for blood. When Nathan, a young parolee arrives in town, Box is instructed to take him under his wing, and soon the two men bond over a murder. Unable to resist the bloody temptations, the two form a friendship revolving around their sickness for killing. A friendship which is bad news for everyone in town. Shot in Tasmania, Australia, the film, directed and co-written by Sam Curtain and co-writer Benjamin Clarke, who also produce, Slaughterhouse Killer stars Craig Ingham, James Mason, Kristen Condon, and Dean Kirkright.
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s see the world through the red eye of Psychic Detective Yakumo! Psychic Detective Yakumo (2010) follows a mysterious college student Yakumo, who works as a psychic detective as he was born with one red eye that allows him to see spirits that in turn help him be able to solve crimes. After helping a fellow student with a case, he can’t seem to get rid of her. This 13 episode
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. The freaks come out at night in Red Garden. Red Garden (2006) takes place in New York City and follows 4 high school girls who are all from different cliques but all have amnesia from the same night. The girls soon learn that at night they will be summoned to fight monsters and will have to band together to face the truth about their new lives all the while trying to
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s go old school with Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror. Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror (2006) is an anthology of three Japanese ghost stories, one being the Japanese classic about Oiwa and Tamiya Lemon, another based on a Kabuki play by Kyoka Izumi, and the last being an original story told in Ukito-e art style. The first two stories are told over a course of 4 episodes each with that last only having
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s ask for revenge with the help from Hell Girl! Hell Girl (2005) is about a website that can only be accessed at midnight where a person enters the name of someone they want revenge against, the person will be sent to hell and the one requesting the vengeance will have their soul taken to hell too when they die. The show also revolves around the one who operates the website,
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ForeignGamingHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s try something we saw on the internet, what could go wrong right? Let’s find out with Corpse Party: Tortured Souls! Corpse Party: Tortured Souls (2013) follows a group of classmates and a teacher who partake in a “friends forever” ritual that one of the students found on the internet, after performing it everyone involved is then spirited away to an otherworldly elementary school where ghosts stalk and kill anyone who
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ForeignHalloweenNetflix
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s check out the NETFLIX original, Sirius the Jaeger. Sirius the Jaeger (2018) follows a group of vampire hunters known as Jaegers who go to 1930’s Japan after chasing a group of vampires from China. Among the team of Jaegers is a man named Yuliy, the last living “Sirius”, a member of an ethnic group of Werewolves. Things get tricky when Yuliy finds his out his dead older brother is still
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Oh look, more vampires in Vampire Knight! Vampire Knight (2008) follows Yuki, a girl who was saved by a vampire when she was young, years later she now serves on a protection committee at an elite boarding school to protect the Day Class from the Night Class (which is made up of vampires) who’s head of the group is the vampire that saved her when she was young and had now
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s play a game with King’s Game: The Animation. King’s Game: The Animation (2017) Is about a class of students who all receive a mysterious text message telling them that they’re in The King’s Game, and when the King gives an order to a particular student, they must perform it or be punished (killed), one of the students in the class has played the game before and was the lone survivor.
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
Writer-director Angel González‘s award-winning Spanish horror-thriller Compulsion is headed your way this October. “A fairytale relationship comes to an end when a shy woman suspects that her boyfriend is cheating on her. She follows him and sees him meeting up with another woman. Although devastated, she decides not to tell her boyfriend in order to learn more about his lies. But when she finds out the dark and deadly secret he’s been hiding, her life turns into an endless nightmare.” Starring Susana Abaitua, Pol Cardona, Marina Esteve, and Paco Manzanedo, and produced by González and José Pastor, Compulsion is out On Demand on October 27th from Level 33 Entertainment.
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Genre specialist sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired Australian horror “The Slaughterhouse Killer.” We’ve got the new trailer that teases a dark and brutal indie film. A passion for slaughter keeps Box in line at the local abattoir where he can quench his thirst for blood. When Nathan, a young parolee arrives in town, Box is instructed to take him under his wing, and soon the two men bond over a murder. Unable to resist the bloody temptations, the two form a friendship revolving around their sickness for killing. A friendship which is bad news for everyone in town. Shot in Tasmania, Australia, the film, directed and co-written by Sam Curtain and co-writer Benjamin Clarke, who also produce, Slaughterhouse Killer stars Craig Ingham, James Mason, Kristen Condon, and Dean Kirkright.
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s see the world through the red eye of Psychic Detective Yakumo! Psychic Detective Yakumo (2010) follows a mysterious college student Yakumo, who works as a psychic detective as he was born with one red eye that allows him to see spirits that in turn help him be able to solve crimes. After helping a fellow student with a case, he can’t seem to get rid of her. This 13 episode
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. The freaks come out at night in Red Garden. Red Garden (2006) takes place in New York City and follows 4 high school girls who are all from different cliques but all have amnesia from the same night. The girls soon learn that at night they will be summoned to fight monsters and will have to band together to face the truth about their new lives all the while trying to
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s go old school with Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror. Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror (2006) is an anthology of three Japanese ghost stories, one being the Japanese classic about Oiwa and Tamiya Lemon, another based on a Kabuki play by Kyoka Izumi, and the last being an original story told in Ukito-e art style. The first two stories are told over a course of 4 episodes each with that last only having
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s ask for revenge with the help from Hell Girl! Hell Girl (2005) is about a website that can only be accessed at midnight where a person enters the name of someone they want revenge against, the person will be sent to hell and the one requesting the vengeance will have their soul taken to hell too when they die. The show also revolves around the one who operates the website,
Continue reading →
ForeignGamingHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s try something we saw on the internet, what could go wrong right? Let’s find out with Corpse Party: Tortured Souls! Corpse Party: Tortured Souls (2013) follows a group of classmates and a teacher who partake in a “friends forever” ritual that one of the students found on the internet, after performing it everyone involved is then spirited away to an otherworldly elementary school where ghosts stalk and kill anyone who
Continue reading →
