Gyo by Junji Ito is a truly terrifying display into the mind of the horror manga storyteller. Seeing the horrific images of the story in front of your eyes adds an extra layer of intensity for the reader, such as myself. I have been a fan of him a long …
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FUNIMATION and CRUNCHYROLL invite you to tune in to DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA – ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT ARC! The latest chapter in the popular anime series is streaming now on both platforms. Check out the trailer, then read on for the details! DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA – ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT …
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Funimation is partnering with Polygon Pictures for the film release of Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars. The two companies are bringing the film to theaters in September! The film is based on the anime series and set a thousand years in the future. An alien race threatens …
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This whole month, I’ve been trying to watch horror anime that demonstrates the range of the medium. We’ve had emotional stories, thrillers and impossibly weird non-linear storytelling, and all of it fits into one subgenre of horror or another. One thing we’ve been missing, though, is a mind-peeling, hair-whitening, balls-through-the-wall …
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It’s week 2 of PopHorror’s month long horror anime deep dive. This means it’s time for something different. In last week’s article on When They Cry (read that one here), we discussed this quintessential horror anime, which is full of hyperbolized emotions, wonky pacing, reliance on Japanese folklore, and environmental …
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“Curse of the Spiral – The Fingerprint of Life.” Uzumaki is one of my personal favorite J-Horror films, and I’ve seen it numerous times. This is a unique, weird, creepy tale indeed, and makes us aware of how nature affects us in many complex ways – on several levels of …
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“Fight against the aliens.” I’m an huge fan of Japanese cinema, and the film Gantz (2010) is at the top of my list. If you thought that Hollywood was the only one tapping into comic books to gather their inspiration and material for films, you’re highly mistaken. Japan has a rich culture …
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It is hard to believe that almost 25 years have passed since we met Jack Skellington, his dog, Zero, Sally and the other residents of Halloween Town. It is also surprising that there hasn’t been a sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas. However, nightmare fans, we will be getting a sequel, …
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