Back to Asia: One Missed Call (2003)

The first time I heard about One Missed Call was while going through list after list online of supposedly good horror movies.  One Missed Call was mentioned as a Japanese horror movie parody, which intrigued me. At the time though, I was looking for horror from somewhere else than Asia. Eventually, when a friend of […]

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The Devil’s Backbone (2001): A Look at Spanish Horror

I love Guillermo del Toro. I love Pedro Almodóvar. I didn’t care much for the Hellboy movies, but Guillermo charmed me with Pan’s Labyrinth. Pedro, well… Pedro is such a visionary that he can’t be summed up in a brief introductory paragraph. He’s ingenious and audacious. Being embarrassingly ignorant about other Spanish moviemakers, I can’t […]

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Classic Horror I Felt Obligated to Watch, or: An Unexpected Journey

I pride myself in being a fan of the more obscure horror movies. Therefore I’ve been feeling very guilty for a long time for not having seen certain classics of the horror genre. Invasion of the Body Snatchers I ticked off my list long ago, and I found that very psychologically interesting with themes that […]

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Mainstream horror that scared the crap out of me

I’ve been a bit boring and serious, writing about these solemn movies with psychological horror in them (Garth Mareghi being the exception). I thought that I should write a fun post for a change, so as to avoid people thinking that I’m a complete stuck-up killjoy when it comes to horror. So far, I’ve been […]

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Let the Right One In (2008): A Nordic Take on the Contemporary Vampire Story

I thought I’d write about a Swedish vampire movie since there’s this huge smear campaign about vampires going on, and I think this movie really has a unique angle to the contemporary vampire story. Now, you should know that by contemporary vampire story I do mean the kind where a vampire reaches out to a […]

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