When it comes to mythical and cryptid beasts, Asia has such a rich and varied tapestry of folklore to draw upon that it’s a crime we don’t see more of them in horror films. Take Folklore, HBO Asia’s well-regarded horror anthology series as an example — here, directors from throughout Asia made short-form concept films […]
Right at the beginning of South Korean director Syeyoung Park’s The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, a young woman tells her narcoleptic boyfriend about a shocking discovery she made in a nearby river. She and her team, she recalls, found an unusually high number of dead “dolphins” there, which bewildered the group. But when they conducted further […]
In recent years, there’s been a small wave of domestic horror films whose source of terror comes from within. Rather than being haunted by a monster or a psycho killer, the threat instead comes from within the family lineage, manifesting family pressures, illnesses, and hidden anxieties into ugly, hideous forms. Perhaps most recognizable within the […]
In a perfect world, there would be way more horror-inspired music videos. Sure, you could go with the run-of-the-mill “band rocks out in front of a cool background” set-up, but nothing quite captures your attention (and your mind) like colorful blood splatters, creative monsters, and the straight-up horrific. As a wise person once told me, […]
When you get down to it, Mike Gan’s “School Spirit” is a story that we’ve all heard before. A combination of the we’re-not-so-different-after-all cloyingness of The Breakfast Club, and the teenage debauchary of many a teenage horror movie (Friday the 13th, etc), it’s a film that won’t turn too many heads from the premise alone. […]