Day 8: Trevor Brown
By Sam Reeve I hadn’t heard of Trevor Brown before, but a friend suggested him to me, so I looked him up. I was sold when I saw this: Trevor Brown, originally from England, likes to explore pedophilia,...
View ArticleDay 8: Highschool of the Dead (2010)
By Sam Reeve Today’s feature is something that really annoyed me from the first episode, but could appeal to some of you, so I’m going to share it anyway and hope that I’m the sole person who got...
View ArticleDay 10: Ghost Hunt (2006-2007)
By Sam Reeve The last anime show I talked about for Japanese Horror Month was one I couldn’t get into, but fortunately Ghost Hunt is one I find much more promising. Unlike many of the other anime...
View ArticleDay 13: Bio Hunter (1995)
By Sam Reeve Today for Japanese Horror Month we’ve got Bio Hunter, an hour-long anime film from the 90’s. The original manga was authored by Fujihiko Hosono, and the animated adaptation was directed by...
View ArticleDay 21: Vampire Hunter D – Bloodlust (2000)
By Sam Reeve Today for Japanese Horror Month we have Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, which is based on the third novel in Hideyuki Kikuchi‘s Vampire Hunter D series. Kikuchi also wrote the novel on which...
View ArticleDay 27: Blood – The Last Vampire (2000)
By Sam Reeve Today for Japanese Horror Month we have the anime short film Blood: The Last Vampire. It was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo, who also was a key animator of Akira. In 2009 a live-action...
View ArticleDay 30: Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
By Sam Reeve Our last anime movie for Japanese Horror Month is Demon City Shinjuku (aka Makaitoshi Shinjuku). Hideyuki Kikuchi, who wrote the original book, also wrote Wicked City and the Vampire...
View ArticleTwisted Tuesdays: Animated Gif Apocalypse Rorschach Test
by Tracy Vanity I’m really glad I don’t know how to make animated gifs because I spend enough hours a day dicking around on the internet. Thankfully there are people out there who have dedicated their...
View ArticleTETSUO!!! – A review of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira
By S.T. Cartledge Big explosions! Motorcycles! Clown gangs! Drugs that give you telepathic powers! Children with old-people faces! Akira is a bizarro cult classic through and through. It’s a six-volume...
View ArticleWeird Art Month: Saccstry
By Sam Reeve Happy winter solstice! From now on the days will only get longer, so thank goodness for that. Today’s artist, known as Saccstry, specializes in creating terrifying, grotesque and adorable...
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