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Other New York premieres include Ti West's Yankee ghost story "The Innkeepers," the offbeat vampire drama "Midnight Son" and "The Cat," a Korean film inspired by the so-called J-Horror genre that makes an emphatic case against stray-animal adoption.
Don't be Afraid of the Dark Steve Dollar 2011
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The Pang Brothers 2002 original is a lot less preposterous, deploying the various tics and tremors of Japanese J-Horror films to amp up the scares when a blind violinst Angelica Lee receives a miracle corneal transplant.
Rocking and Rolling in the Wild, Wild East Steve Dollar 2011
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Also: The gang offers an appreciation of Steve Jobs and discusses the recent spate of announced projects taking on the Frankenstein legend; and Dan gets all sloppy over the deliciously bizarre J-Horror film, The Sylvian Experiments.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Real Steel Dan Persons 2011
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Very much along the same lines as Kairo (Pulse) - like Jonathan McCalmont pointed out in SF Signal, this is essentially the best kind of J-Horror in fiction form.
intertribal: never look at a movie the same way again! intertribal 2010
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Very much along the same lines as Kairo (Pulse) - like Jonathan McCalmont pointed out in SF Signal, this is essentially the best kind of J-Horror in fiction form.
never look at a movie the same way again! intertribal 2010
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Also: The gang offers an appreciation of Steve Jobs and discusses the recent spate of announced projects taking on the Frankenstein legend; and Dan gets all sloppy over the deliciously bizarre J-Horror film, The Sylvian Experiments.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Real Steel Dan Persons 2011
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Borrowing from J-Horror films like Ring (1998) and Pulse (2001) as well as ergodic works such as Danieleweski's House of Leaves (2000) it uses emails, blog posts, chat logs, press releases and transcribed interviews to tell the story of a baroquely shot 1920s snuff film that manages to escape its original medium.
REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010
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This newly released Lions Gate film is essentially a J-Horror rip-off dressed up as a Native American ghost story.
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Sick of all the J-Horror rip-offs that have flooded the horror market since the success of Ringu, Ju-On and their American remake counterparts The Ring and The Grudge?
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If you are unfamiliar with J-Horror, Haunted Forest might thrill you for a while, but its repetitive storyline will wear you out, and not in the good way.
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