Featuring interviews with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse), Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge), and many more, the documentary is now streaming on Shudder. Reading time 3 minutes A pervasive feeling of dread. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January of 2005, I was a 12-year-old in my first year of junior high. After a period of adjustment, I finally made a friend, ...

Visage draws inspiration from P.T. and J-horror, offering intense and punchy scares. The Mortuary Assistant delivers powerful scares through J-horror-based workplace supernatural encounters. The ...

Matt Konopka looks back at Hideo Nakata's 'The Ring' and how Kôji Suzuki's eerie tale sparked the J-horror boom.

You know director Kōji Shiraishi, even if you think you don’t. He’s directed J-horror classics like the acclaimed Noroi: The Curse and the campier classic, Sadako vs Kayako. If you’re looking for ...

His “Ring” trilogy helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned a multimedia franchise, including one of the ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

When I was a kid, I was terrified of showering. I’d been scared by titles like Arachnophobia, Final Destination, and of course Psycho. If I took a shower, I was going to get murdered by a serial ...

Eihi Shiina as Asami wearing a blue jacket and smiling in Audition - Omega Project There are gnarly horror movies, and then there's Takashi Miike's "Audition." The 1999 film was based on the 1997 Ryū ...

Any horror fan around in the late 90s/early 2000s will be familiar with the J-Horror boom; the explosion of films like Hideo Nakata’s Ring, Takeshi Shimizu’s Ju-On, and Takashi Miike’s Audition. It ...