Looking for a way to scare the crap out of yourself this evening without the bother of costumes or candy or clubbing??? Be our date and celebrate NrrrdyGrrrl’s birthday by joining us with our blankies and pop corn and these terrifying masterworks of Asian contemporary horror cinema.
Dark Water (仄暗い水の底から)
(2002) Hideo Nakata
Japan
WATCH ON YOUTUBE
Shutter (ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ)
(2004) Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom
Thailand
WATCH ON BUDAGEMOK
The Grudge (呪怨じゅおん)
(2002) Takashi Shimizu
Japan
WATCH ON DAILY MOTION
A Tale of Two Sisters (薔花, 紅蓮)
(2003) Kim Jee-woon
South Korea
WATCH ON VEOH HERE
One Missed Call (着信アリ)
(2003) Takashi Miike
Japan
WATCH ON YOUTUBE
The Ring (リング)
1998 Takashi Shimizu
Japan
WATCH ON DAILY MOTION
PART ONE
PART TWO
Our lovely friend Tananarive Due is noted for her work in many fields, genres and media but for Dark Matters’ POCtober, we want to draw your attention to her work in horror- on the page and on the screen.
Here’s a profile of Tananarive in The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror
Check out her films, videos & more at Tananarive Due’s YouTube Channel
And have a look at Tananarive Due’s official blog: Reading Circle
And her website TananariveDue.com
Watch and read about the horror short she made with Steven Barnes: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes’ Horror Short ‘Danger Word’, an adaptation of their novel “Devil’s Wake”.
And finally take a listen to this in-depth interview Tananarive had with Farai Chideya for National Public Radio in 2006:
A Conversation with Tananarive Due PART ONE
&
A Conversation with Tananarive DuePART TWO
LINK: WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE ON VIMEO
On Saturday, April 25, 2015, Guillermo del Toro took the Castro Theatre stage with San Francisco Film Society Executive Director Noah Cowan to discuss his career and inspirations as part of the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival, at which he received the Irving M Levin Directing Award.
Dark Tales of Japan (Nihon no Kowai Yoru) is a 2004 made-for-TV film anthology of five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Norio Tsuruta, Kōji Shiraishi, Takashi Shimizu and Masayuki Ochiai.
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