For fans of the found-footage genre, Noroi: The Curse is a really good J-horror movie that skillfully blends folk horror with the found-footage format. Not as good as the likes of Dark Water and Ju-On: The Grudge but still a good watch nonetheless.
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Folk Horror Genre
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Another book with all of the occult stuff (but again more in the ia ia Cthulhu fhtagn way more than Satanic) that everybody raves about is Laird Baron's "The Croning," but I found it a hard read (it just wasn't written in my particular style). Still, that many people must love it for a reason.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
This was back in the day but The Boggy Creek Monster was a huge hit at the time, based off allegedly true accounts.
I've just finished watching Impetigore. I found it phenomenal. To think that Joko Anwar directed both that one and The Queen of Black Magic, another great horror movie that also released last year, is incredible.
I think Impetigore is the better of the two, though. Highly recommended!
I think Impetigore is the better of the two, though. Highly recommended!
I just saw this! How did you like it at the end in specific? I personally
absolutely love how captivating it was and the fact that it leaves the viewer to guess who the hero and the villain were.
Edit: Also, @Meow Mix has yet to watch it, and I've been spamming her with recommendation of it. Would you like to add your own endorsement as well to get her into the Wailing squad?
Last year, I recommended it to a guy who wasn't even into horror. His reaction was similar to yours when he was done watching. It really is an extraordinarily good movie.
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Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
I just saw this! How did you like it at the end in specific? I personallyabsolutely love how captivating it was and the fact that it leaves the viewer to guess who the hero and the villain were.
Edit: Also, @Meow Mix has yet to watch it, and I've been spamming her with recommendation of it. Would you like to add your own endorsement as well to get her into the Wailing squad?
Last year, I recommended it to a guy who wasn't even into horror. His reaction was similar to yours when he was done watching. It really is an extraordinarily good movie.
I loved the twist. Everyone sympathizes with the wrong character until it's too late.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Sure! Let's twist her arm.
I loved the twist. Everyone sympathizes with the wrong character until it's too late.
I'm actually still unsure who the "wrong character" was. In my opinion, this is a core aspect of the plot's brilliance: it has two possible interpretations that are both diametrically opposed.
There was a theory I read a while back that the Japanese man was a good shaman who performed rituals on the dead to prevent them from getting possessed. However, when he himself died, there was nobody to perform that ritual on him, so he got possessed at the end.
It makes sense but doesn't rule out the other theory that he and the shaman were the bad guys working against the mysterious woman/guardian angel.
There was a theory I read a while back that the Japanese man was a good shaman who performed rituals on the dead to prevent them from getting possessed. However, when he himself died, there was nobody to perform that ritual on him, so he got possessed at the end.
It makes sense but doesn't rule out the other theory that he and the shaman were the bad guys working against the mysterious woman/guardian angel.
Sure! Let's twist her arm.
Sure! Which arm do you want to twist? I call dibs on whichever has the bigger tattoos.
@Meow Mix
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
It makes sense but doesn't rule out the other theory that he and the shaman were the bad guys working against the mysterious woman/guardian angel.....This is my interpretation.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
You take the one arm you want first. I'll take the other.
That's on my list. I've been too busy going through Asian horror, and I certainly haven't been let down so far!
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Asian horror rarely let's us down.