Category: thriller

A Strange House (2024) review

Uketsu, your work deserves better. 

Kisaragi Station Re: (2025) review

This fun horror-thriller invites the spectator to consider the dynamic between the lurking presence and the visitors it constantly eyes as staging the uncomfortable truth of our contemporary societal field. 

Dollhouse (2025) review

Yaguchi’s horror will please audiences new to the J-horror genre as well as long-time fans of the genre.

Lumberjack the Monster (2023) review

A great example of a filmic experience that is helmed by a director that is uninvested in the material and, consequently, merely does his bare minimum

Exit 8 (2025) review

Genki Kawamura delivers an engaging and visually arresting psychological horror narrative that takes the concept of liminality to its anthropological origin.

Cloud (2024) review

Kurosawa delivers a biting critique of way capitalism and consumerism has transformed our subjectivity and the way we interact with others.

Abashiri Prison (1965) review

Teruo Ishii delivers an interesting exploration of the frailty of the social bond between criminals as well as the trauma that, in some cases, animates the criminal reflex.

A Man (2022) review

A compelling and thrilling exploration of the reality of identity fraud and the damaging effect societal discourses can have on a subject and his ego.