Western ghosts: haunt like one house. Japanese ghosts: apocalyptic hate plague. Western ghosts need to step up their game.

To quote Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Retribution…. “I am dead. So please, I want everyone to die too."

Do you ever really get over being a scaredy cat in the aughts and sobbing to the point of being sick because there’s just NOTHING you can do? Broad daylight, rain of shine, Kayako will fucking get you and you can’t even judge or hate her because how could we begin to fathom the rage of the murdered?

the earth weeps for the death of black sun, as do you, fair prince

There's a great maze of tunnels, a Labyrinth. It's like a great dark city, under the hill. Full of gold, and the swords of old heroes, and old crowns, and bones, and years, and silence.

After her hair, my second favorite thing about Kirsty is she is the most annoyed Final Girl in horror. She didn’t open the box, she wants nothing to do with her dad’s domestic woes, and now she has to deal with Hell’s middle management. Kirsty is BEYOND over it 😂

Frodo 💛

Me.

You cannot remake whatever the hell was wrong with Lucio Fulci. This is an exercise in futility. Not worth the hard drive.

In college when I was just starting to get into the genre I watched Ju-On: The Grudge and Carpenter’s Halloween pretty close together and they impressed so strongly on me how much is possible in horror just through precise geometry and timing. No monster is ever scarier than the medium itself can be

“What If Fire Walk With Me was Shirley Jackson’s Blair Witch Project?” and then we all stomach-ached dry-heaved for the rest of our fucking lives

Sometimes you’ve just gotta stare at Japanese Hellraiser posters for an inordinate amount of time

Completely feral folkloric cinema.

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), Jaromil Jireš Puberty as witchcraft, sexuality as sweet kisses between girls locked between the gnarled teeth of vampiric and ghoulish heterosexuality. Patriarchy as incest in cobwebbed crypts, the Church a pack of decomposing pedophiles.