japan

Blind Beast (REVIEW)

Submitted by Brett on Friday, Oct 12th 2012

Every now and then I’ll stumble across a movie at my university library that I imagine someone must have snuck by an unwitting librarian. Such is the case with "Blind Beast", a bizarre Japanese sexploitation film from 1969.

Blind Beast tells the story of a blind sculptor who is so obsessed with a particular nude model that he decides to kidnap her with the help of his mother, and take her back to his art studio in the hopes of creating an entirely new genre of art for blind people (and doing a lot of groping).

Kuroneko (Black Cat) (REVIEW)

Submitted by Brett on Saturday, Sep 15th 2012

In "Kuroneko", a woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by a roving band of samurai. After their death the woman and her daughter-in-law swear their loyalty to the devil in order for them to be able to return to the world as cat-like ghosts and kill every samurai they possibly can. They then lure unsuspecting samurai to their home, deep in a bamboo forest, where the daughter-in-law proceeds to get the samurai drunk and seduce them. When the samurai are at their most vulnerable the mother and daughter-in-law reveal their true forms and kill them.

Noroi: The Curse (REVIEW)

Submitted by Angelo B on Thursday, Jul 7th 2011

Despite what my track record on the site would indicate, I actually really dig Japanese horror films. At least the original ones that don’t have cursed video tapes, Youtube channels, cell phones or text message based novels (yes, I’ve reviewed all of those) or that annoying wet girl ghost from like 80 other movies. “Noroi: The Curse” came heavily suggested to me by a friend, so I went into it open-minded, hoping for the best. While it’s certainly not an amazing film, it has some legitimately creepy things in it and is one of the most inventive uses of the first person style I’ve seen.