In the course of his follow-up to the most successful film in Japanese history, Hideo Nakata attempts to continue his narrative while expanding upon the genesis and phenomena found within Ringu. During the process, unable to maintain the many irons in which he has...
Director Hideo Nakata single-handedly kicked started the J-horror movement after making the highest grossing film in Japanese history, Ringu. By merely revamping the traditional ghost story, he subtly posits a renunciation of technology while successfully pulling the...
I’m aware that this is going to merit a lot of viewer’s ire in my granting Hideo Nakata’s sequel, The Ring Two, a star rating while refusing to even score Gore Verbinski’s blockbuster effort, The Ring. However, once one considers that Nakata didn’t merely remake his...
Though Gore Verbinski’s rendition of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu is a slightly downgraded effigy of its forerunner, which I liked, I cannot advocate The Ring because it stands as a blatant admittance that many people are unwilling to watch a film if it contains subtitles or...
The Masters of Horror Series has been pretty good so far, and while I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing most of the Second season DVD’s so far, I knew I was bound to find one that didn’t go over so well with me. That’s the case with Right to...
Released by Lion’s Gate in the UK just a couple of days ahead of the 5th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001, RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR is a small scale but frighteningly credible movie about a world forever shaken and changed by what happened on 9/11 and...
