Gore From Outer Space (Chi wo sû uchû) retrospective screening at FrightFest, 29th and 30th August 2026, Writer Hiroshi Takahashi and director Hirohisa Sasaki’s Gore From Outer Space is, like Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), a paradoxical sequel. For much as Miike’s original Dead or Alive (1999) ended not only with its…
Crazy Lips (Hakkyousuru kuchibiru) retrospective screening at FrightFest, 28th and 30th August 2026 “What is happening inside this house” is the to-camera refrain of news reporter Yoshida, camped in a press pack outside the Kurahashi property. They are there because Michio Kurahashi (Kazuma Suzuki), chief suspect in the serial beheading of four local schoolgirls, has…
Six home releases from October 2023 first published by Little White Lies as entry 181 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsules of: The Others, Delicatessen, Meatcleaver Massacre, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Messiah of Evil, Door The Others (2001) It is 1945 and the war has ended, but on the contested ground of Jersey in the Channel Islands,…