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International horror: J-horror, European extremity, Latin American shocks and the films Hollywood keeps remaking.
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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 grant wishes with xxxHOLIC. xxxHOLIC (2006) follows the story of a teenage boy who has the ability to see demons and ghosts that makes his social life non-existent. The boy then goes to a shop where you can have wishes granted as long as what you can pay matches the price of the wish. For his wish to lose his ability he must be the mysterious shopkeeper’s cook and errand
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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 paint the town red with Blood-C! Blood-C (2011) is the third installment of the “Blood” franchise, the story follows Saya, by day she’s a typical high school girl who is sweet, kind, and a bit clumsy but by night she hunts and kills monsters. Things soon go wrong when the monsters she fights at night start appearing in the day and the town Saya lives in is not what it
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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 numb our minds with Paranoia Agent. Paranoia Agent (2004) is about the chain of events caused by a bat-wielding boy on roller skates called Lil’ Slugger who attacks people seemingly at random and involves a large cast of characters who are all affected by his actions. The anime is based on a novel of the same name and is a psychological thriller showing in an extreme case how mass hysteria
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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. Today we’ll be looking at Requiem from the Darkness. Requiem from the Darkness (2003), also known as The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma, follows a young writer who wants to write a book of a hundred ghost stories as he travels around Japan, on his journey he encounters a trio of supernatural good doers that bring karmic justice to those deserving. The art style of this anime
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ForeignHalloweenMovies
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. Things are getting fishy with the OVA Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack. First, what’s an OVA? An OVA is an Anime film or series that’s not broadcast first on TV but instead sent straight to video/DVD and have higher budgets than their broadcast counterparts. Now onto Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012). The film centers around a couple that while on vacation, encounter fish with legs that seem to infect people causing them
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 chase a killer in Monster. Monster may not 100% be considered a horror, but the dark psychological spider web it weaves says otherwise. The story follows a Japanese brain surgeon living in Germany and after performing lifesaving surgery on a little boy, a strange string of murders occur in with the surgeon was a suspect, years later the killings happen again and the doctor, though again being accused, discovered the
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 head to school with Another. Another (2012) is a horror mystery that takes us to a junior high class where students will die in Final Destination ways because of a “calamity curse” that affects this class only because of all things…one of the students in the class that year is an “extra” and unbeknownst to that student as well as their classmates…they’re a ghost. Based off a 2009 novel of
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 keep the blood flowing with HELLSING. HELLSING (2001) is a vampire anime based on the manga of the same name follows the secret organization Hellsing that fights creatures of the night, mainly vampires. The organization has an ace up its sleeve, a powerful vampire within its ranks, Alucard. The story also centers on a young woman named Seras Victoria, a former police officer that was turned into a vampire by
Continue reading →
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Flying saucers from the planet Paira, which lies on the opposite side of our sun, appear in the skies over Tokyo. The occupants of these craft, a race of human-sized cyclopean starfish, are hellbent on warning mankind about their eminent destruction at the hands of a runaway celestial body, Planet R by name. The big problem with all of this is that humans will doubtless be up to their tits in fear over giant starfish from space and won’t listen to their apocalyptic info, so our friendly buddies from beyond the stars transform one off their own into the likeness of a comely nightclub singer. To that end they attempt to contact a Japanese egghead that’s developed a potent new energy source which they hope to use to construct a big ass bomb that will blow that pesky planet to pieces thus saving Earth and Paira… but before any of that can happen, the scientist is kidnapped by enemy agents
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. So without further ado let’s kick off this month’s list with Ghost Hound. Ghost Hound (2007) follows the story of three high school boys who learn to perform out of body experiences at will in order to learn about the traumatic past of one of the boys who wishes to seek answers to the kidnapping of himself and his older sister years prior; as a result, the three are actually able
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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 grant wishes with xxxHOLIC. xxxHOLIC (2006) follows the story of a teenage boy who has the ability to see demons and ghosts that makes his social life non-existent. The boy then goes to a shop where you can have wishes granted as long as what you can pay matches the price of the wish. For his wish to lose his ability he must be the mysterious shopkeeper’s cook and errand
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 paint the town red with Blood-C! Blood-C (2011) is the third installment of the “Blood” franchise, the story follows Saya, by day she’s a typical high school girl who is sweet, kind, and a bit clumsy but by night she hunts and kills monsters. Things soon go wrong when the monsters she fights at night start appearing in the day and the town Saya lives in is not what it
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 numb our minds with Paranoia Agent. Paranoia Agent (2004) is about the chain of events caused by a bat-wielding boy on roller skates called Lil’ Slugger who attacks people seemingly at random and involves a large cast of characters who are all affected by his actions. The anime is based on a novel of the same name and is a psychological thriller showing in an extreme case how mass hysteria
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. Today we’ll be looking at Requiem from the Darkness. Requiem from the Darkness (2003), also known as The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma, follows a young writer who wants to write a book of a hundred ghost stories as he travels around Japan, on his journey he encounters a trio of supernatural good doers that bring karmic justice to those deserving. The art style of this anime
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloweenMovies
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. Things are getting fishy with the OVA Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack. First, what’s an OVA? An OVA is an Anime film or series that’s not broadcast first on TV but instead sent straight to video/DVD and have higher budgets than their broadcast counterparts. Now onto Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012). The film centers around a couple that while on vacation, encounter fish with legs that seem to infect people causing them
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 chase a killer in Monster. Monster may not 100% be considered a horror, but the dark psychological spider web it weaves says otherwise. The story follows a Japanese brain surgeon living in Germany and after performing lifesaving surgery on a little boy, a strange string of murders occur in with the surgeon was a suspect, years later the killings happen again and the doctor, though again being accused, discovered the
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 head to school with Another. Another (2012) is a horror mystery that takes us to a junior high class where students will die in Final Destination ways because of a “calamity curse” that affects this class only because of all things…one of the students in the class that year is an “extra” and unbeknownst to that student as well as their classmates…they’re a ghost. Based off a 2009 novel of
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 keep the blood flowing with HELLSING. HELLSING (2001) is a vampire anime based on the manga of the same name follows the secret organization Hellsing that fights creatures of the night, mainly vampires. The organization has an ace up its sleeve, a powerful vampire within its ranks, Alucard. The story also centers on a young woman named Seras Victoria, a former police officer that was turned into a vampire by
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviews
Flying saucers from the planet Paira, which lies on the opposite side of our sun, appear in the skies over Tokyo. The occupants of these craft, a race of human-sized cyclopean starfish, are hellbent on warning mankind about their eminent destruction at the hands of a runaway celestial body, Planet R by name. The big problem with all of this is that humans will doubtless be up to their tits in fear over giant starfish from space and won’t listen to their apocalyptic info, so our friendly buddies from beyond the stars transform one off their own into the likeness of a comely nightclub singer. To that end they attempt to contact a Japanese egghead that’s developed a potent new energy source which they hope to use to construct a big ass bomb that will blow that pesky planet to pieces thus saving Earth and Paira… but before any of that can happen, the scientist is kidnapped by enemy agents
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. So without further ado let’s kick off this month’s list with Ghost Hound. Ghost Hound (2007) follows the story of three high school boys who learn to perform out of body experiences at will in order to learn about the traumatic past of one of the boys who wishes to seek answers to the kidnapping of himself and his older sister years prior; as a result, the three are actually able
Continue reading →
