While not quite as popular as Ghost of Yotsuya, Botan Dōrō, aka The Peony Lantern, is a cornerstone of classic kaidan. It came to Japan...

The second film in Radiance Film’s Daiei Gothic collection is Tokuzo Tanaka’s The Snow Woman, which combines two popular kaidan tropes...

Japanese ghost stories – or kaidan (sometimes translated as kwaidan) – are rooted in an ancient pantheon of conventions, stock characters...

I don’t have the pertinent data on hand to prove it, but it feels like the end of the period between 1998 and 2002 was a bit of a black...

Notorious scumbag and art-ruiner Harvey Weinstein barely meddled at all during the post-production of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth...

Following their releases of All Ladies Do It and Frivolous Lola, Cult Epics brings Tinto Brass' Cheeky! to 4K UHD. Those who have seen...

In El Mariachi, a young mariachi player (Carlos Gallardo) looking for work drifts into town and finds himself in the middle of a mistaken...

Hellbound killed off its star monsters too quickly and without much of a fight, but the twist that the Cenobites were all once human...

Pinhead and the other Cenobites get the spotlight, but Julia is the real breakout villain of the Hellraiser franchise, highlighted here...

Coming out of the late ‘60s avant-garde theater scene, future literary superstar Clive Barker became a regular Theatre of the Imagination...