His “Ring” trilogy helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned a multimedia franchise, including one of the ...

With the passing of Koji Suzuki, he leaves a legacy of horror with his novel Ring. This book alone inspired a franchise that ...

Koji Suzuki, the celebrated Japanese author behind the iconic horror novel Ring, has passed away at the age of 68. Suzuki's ...

The horror world is mourning the reported loss of legendary Japanese author Koji Suzuki, whose work forever changed ...

Featuring interviews with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse), Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge), and many more, the documentary is now streaming on Shudder. Reading time 3 minutes A pervasive feeling of dread. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January of 2005, I was a 12-year-old in my first year of junior high. After a period of adjustment, I finally made a friend, ...

When I was a kid, I was terrified of showering. I’d been scared by titles like Arachnophobia, Final Destination, and of course Psycho. If I took a shower, I was going to get murdered by a serial ...

Eihi Shiina as Asami wearing a blue jacket and smiling in Audition - Omega Project There are gnarly horror movies, and then there's Takashi Miike's "Audition." The 1999 film was based on the 1997 Ryū ...

Visage draws inspiration from P.T. and J-horror, offering intense and punchy scares. The Mortuary Assistant delivers powerful scares through J-horror-based workplace supernatural encounters. The ...

Any horror fan around in the late 90s/early 2000s will be familiar with the J-Horror boom; the explosion of films like Hideo Nakata’s Ring, Takeshi Shimizu’s Ju-On, and Takashi Miike’s Audition. It ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Paranormasight is a well-crafted mystery-horror that leans more into the mystery while keeping things light with a snappy script. Richter Kai, if you’re reading this I am free on Monday night. If you ...