A rich goldmine of cinematic terror, Japanese horror has long been celebrated for contributing some of the most effective and traumatizing films that the world has ever seen. There is no doubt that ...

Thought lost for nearly forty-five years, this silent horror film was the product of avant-garde Japanese artists known as Shinkankakuha. Eschewing more naturalistic representation, the film uses ...

This list might have just as easily been titled Ten great Japanese horror movies in the vein of Kuroneko, since we’re only dealing with a certain type of horror film here. Kuroneko, which premiers at ...

Quentin Tarantino loves Japanese cinema just as much as he loves horror movies so it's no surprise he called his Takashi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marilyn Burns in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) The firsthand account of Japanese audiences ...

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 ...

Tokyo Gore Police filmmaker Yoshihiro Nishimura, the master of Japanese horror genre, has died after battling liver disease ...