Best horror films
Marebito (2004)īetween Grudge films, Takashi Shimizu directed this bizarre low-budget, semi-experimental plunge into HP Lovecraft territory. A wave of suicides turns out to be not entirely unconnected to a mysterious website, deviant glam rockers and long strips of human skin. Suicide Club (2001)įew opening scenes are more startling than that of Sion Sono’s surreal shocker, in which 54 schoolgirls cheerfully link hands and throw themselves under an oncoming train. Suicide Club … ‘Not for the squeamish.’ Photograph: AF archive/Alamy 16. Hideo Nakata’s remake of the Korean paranormal psychothriller Haunters (2010) is darker than the original and benefits from a lovely Kenji Kawai score. Monsterz (2014)Ī mind-controlling sociopath embarks on a battle of wits with the one man he can’t control, using bystanders as disposable pawns. It’s gangsters v zombies in Ryuhei Kitamura’s barking mad, low-budget brew of ninja action, wacky camerawork and some of the most OTT acting ever seen outside a Nicolas Cage film. Yakuza hitmen bury the corpses of their victims in a place called the Forest of Resurrection.
Director Takashi Miike plays by the J-horror rules, more or less, but it all flies off the rails in a bonkers final act.
Students get voice mails predicting their own violent deaths – which duly come to pass, although not without some black humour and a spooky vintage ringtone. Needless to say, things don’t go as planned. A psychic decides the only way to save a doomed schoolgirl from Sadako’s curse is to introduce another curse into the mix – and get the two to duke it out.
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Monster movie crossovers are usually a sign of a moribund franchise, but this Ring v Grudge combo is livelier than you would expect.