Here are some uncommon amazing facts: 1.    At an interview for the post of watchmen, liftmen and sweepers for Calcutta University, out of 400 applicants, 250 applicants were graduates and 15 had post graduate degrees. 2.    According to a British research on 150 business enterprises and over 4000+ employees, an employee waste... More

Not all Japanese horrors are classics. Even some of them are just like our Ramsay Brothers’ productions. The only difference is that female characters in these Jap movies are far cuter than the Indian counterparts. Once you go through the numerous forced nude scenes in Koji Kawano’s Zankoku Hanten (English Title: Cruel Restaurant),... More

There are several ways to die. E.g. you can hang yourself, consume poison, jump in front of a speeding vehicle (preferably a train), jumping off from a tall building, and there are some extreme machines used in ancient India to kill yourself. Death is guaranteed. This is all what you get in the Suicide Manual. Directed by Osamu Fukutani,... More

Takashi Ishii’s Freeze Me is one of those Japanese movies, which have rich visual characteristics with skilled editing and a constant pace on which it proceeds. Watching a movie based on rape revenge storyline is hard to digest, often it makes the audiences uncomfortable. The crimes shown in the movie is very painful and realistic.... More

When a curse moves from Japan to the US, it becomes deadly. But when Japanese horror movie is adapted by the Hollywood geniuses, often it becomes deadlier. This is exactly what happened with Toby Wilkins’ The Grudge 3. I had great hope on the adaptation of  Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge, but unfortunately Wilkins could... More

Chakushin Ari 2 (English Title: One Missed Call 2) is the sequel of the famous Asian supernatural horror Chakushin Ari. This sequel is directed by Renpei Tsukamoto and was released just after couple of years since the release of the first part. This Japanese horror movie continues with the bizarre accidents related to phone calls.... More

Ringu 2 is the sequel of Ringu, the masterpiece from Hideo Nakata. This movie is a part of a triology of three stories namely Ring, Loop and Sprial by Koji Suzuki. Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) is investigating the death of Ryuji, her boyfriend in Ringu 2. Soon she discovers the information about the cursed video tape of Sadako Yamamura... More

Kairo (English Title: Pulse), written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa can easily give a tough competition to movies like The Others, Ringu and The Sixth Sense. This Japanese horror movie begins with a young group of Tokyo residents’ experiences of strange incidents after one of their friends commits suicide. The vision of... More

Directed and co-authored by Takeshi Furusawa, Otoshimon (English title: Ghost Train) is one of the most popular J-Horror movies, which bears clear resemblance with movies like Ringu, Pulse and Ju-On. The story of Otoshimono forwards with Nina (Erika Sawajiri), a young school girl eye witnessing a train accident while going to her... More

Rinne (English title: Reincarnation) directed by Takashi Shimizu is considered as one of the best movies in the J-Horror cult. Released in 2006, this horror flick was appreciated well within in Japan as well as by the global audiences. The story of Rinne is about a story of a horror movie in a movie. Young and struggling Japanese... More

Uzumaki (English title: Spiral) deals with the weird concept of supernatural imagination. This film directed by Higuchinsky has earned a good reputation in the history of Asian Horror movies. Kirie Goshima (Eriko Hatsune), as a young girl comes across her boyfriend’s father videotaping a snail. The father is unaware of it (Kirie... More

From the Director of Ringu, Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara (English title: Dark Water) is yet another present for the lovers of Japanese cinema. This horror flick is one of the best J-horrors made by Hideo Nakata. Nakata has own International Critics Award at Gerardmer Film Festival along with several other awards for this movie. This... More

Odishon (English title: Audition) is considered as one of the most finest or you can say scariest horror movies in the history of J-Horrors. It is directed by renowned horror film maker Takashi Miike and it successfully hit the big screen during 1999. Odishon is a tale of a middle aged company executive Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi)... More

This Japanese horror movie Ringu is a landmark in the history of horror movies and it brought the Asian movie industry into more limelight. Ringu is based on a novel with the same name written by Koji Suzuki and the story line was further continued on three other novels called  Spiral, Loop and Birthday which were later converted... More

Chakushin Ari (Enlish Title:  One Missed Call) is a popular Japanese horror flick which has recently been remade in English. I have seen this original J-Horror movie and really enjoyed every bit of it. It is directed by the renowned director Takashi Miike. The movie starts with young Yoko Okazaki (Anna Nagata) receiving a voice... More

Written and directed by Sion Sono, Jisatsu Saakuru aka Suicide Club is one of the well made Asian horror flick that I have ever seen. It is based on a very abstract subject matter and often makes you feel suffocated, at least to some extent. The movie starts with a mass suicide of 54 Japanese school girls, who throw themselves in... More