“When all is said and done, these flaws are not detrimental to the fun to be found in this crazy narrative.”
Category: horror
Cure (1997) Review
“As we wander through the desolate narratives spaces, the shocking and scandalous truth Cure stages pulsates harder and harder: in every one of us resides a drive to destroy and desire to enact violence.”
Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017) review
“Sion Sono’s poetry questions enjoyment and its function within contemporary Japanese society with ultra-violent precision. This is, in other words, Sion Sono at its finest.”
I am a Hero (2016) review
“Sometimes disturbing and confronting, sometimes fun, but ever engaging, the narrative underlines the influence society, (…) has on the subject, and how the collapse of a symbolic structure opens up the possibility to rewrite one’s coming into being.”
Kuroneko (1968) review
Shindo’s film is not the feminist manifest some make it out to be and it is not a defense of paternalistic values either
Jigoku/地獄 (1960) Review
“A narrative that, by way of the cinematographic versatility of Nakagawa, unfolds into a true Japanese horror classic.”
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