Angel Dust
Angel Dust (1994) is an energetically bleak film about the terrific ease with which we surrender our minds.
Noroi: The Curse
When Noroi: The Curse was released in Japan in 2005, it quickly became a word-of-mouth must-see, deemed one of the scariest found-footage films ever made.
Spider Forest
The guilty mind passes the time by inventing new escapes and tortures. Song Il-gon’s Spider Forest (2004) is the story of a troubled television producer walking back through his memories in search of clues to a savage murder at a cabin in the woods.
Onibaba
The opening images of Kaneto Shindo’s exquisite, dread-drenched, medieval Japan–set Onibaba (1964) are overlaid with telegraphic fragments of text: “THE HOLE. DEEP AND DARK…”
Woman in the Dunes
The tale of an amateur entomologist (Eiji Okada) lured by seemingly amiable rural folk into a sand pit from which he is unable to escape, Woman in the Dunes would seem to generate its particular strain of terror from our primal fear of sequestration and austerity.
The Ghost Bride
Marriage and remarriage have forever been prominent motifs in the comedy genre. But with matrimonial success rates not exactly encouraging in much of the world, and divorce illegal in the Philippines, they’re equally suitable grist for the horror mill.