Completed in 1973 (edit: according to the commentary on this disc, it was actually completed in 1969 or ‘70), but not released outside of...

Post-WWII, Cold War angst produced an enduring legacy of American science fiction and horror films that helped audiences process their...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 pop samurai feature Yojimbo drew inspiration from American westerns and was also based loosely on Dashiell Hammet’s...

Following the glorious ascension of new generation directors, including Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel, and Joko Anwar...

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...

IT’S SEQUENTIAL DRAWINGS VERSUS FLESH & BLOOD ACTORS IN A SHOWDOWN OF MULTIMEDIA PROPORTIONS! Since the advent of filmmaking, people have...

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...