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BINZUME JIGOKU (1986)
AKA: Hell in a Bottle / Bottled Hell
Director: Yoshihiro Kawasaki
Starring: Chiyako Ogura, Minako Ogawa, Hitomi Kobayashi, Jun Numaoka, Saori Shinbori, Esumi Eimei
This is showing at the Curzon in Soho, this friday: 22/01/2010.
House (1977) Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Japan, 87 mins, Japanese with English subtitles
Curzon Midnight Movies and the Masters of Cinema bring you this rarely seen kaleidoscopic, supernatural, Japanese curio on the big screen – best described as ‘Scooby Doo on acid’ and compared to The Shining and The Yellow Submarine! When Angel takes her friends to her aunt’s isolated mansion, dormant secrets are set to terrify and test the girls to their limits.
Japanese Friday the 13th poster
This is from a fashion mag and nowt to do with any J-horror, but we sure do like it. Why does Japanese horror have such a fascination with hair?
LINKAGE: Just found this directory of Japanese Horror … what, none of them begin with “Q”?
