“Kibakichi” is the first of many films to come from MTI Videos new Asian label “Saiko films” The film is very unique. It’s basically a spaghetti western and a Samurai film all in one. It’s very violent and it has a horror feel to...
No warm-up, no backstage chit-chat, just a close-up of a face that looks like an autopsy of the Shroud of Turin; all of a sudden there’s this big tattooed fucker in a mohawk, a crown of barbed wire and bondage gear onstage with hooks and syringes poking out all over...
Editor / director Sheldon Wilson made the flawed but compelling SHALLOW GROUND a couple of years ago, a movie that displayed many hallmarks of a filmmaker destined for even better things with future movies. His follow-up, KAW, is an understated contemporary riff on...
Wow, talk about a great film! I have always been able to sit though even the most boring of serial killer films. I usually enjoy the whole psychological aspect of their lives, how they came to be, etc… This film however takes the cake. Now I might get heat for...
Perhaps the only comparable facet to the iconic gothic ghost child in J-horror is that the genre almost always has its finger on pulse of Universal Unconscious at turn of the 21st century. Though lesser known, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Kario/Pulse is part of this tradition...
Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi made only twenty-two films during his brief career. However, he stands as one of the most highly regarded filmmakers from the East (he was not favored in his own country). There is good reason for this: Kobayashi was able to exploit...
