Category: Features

The Legend behind Japan’s Suicide Forest

May 6, 2016
9 mins to read

With Natalie Dormer chiller The Forest set to hit DVD in June, we take a look at the disturbing real life Suicide Forest in Japan that provided inspiration for the film. The Legend behind Japan’s Suicide Forest Every year, assembled groups made up of Japanese police and volunteers comb through the thirty-five kilometer expanse known …

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Paul Pinn: A Tribute

May 5, 2016
10 mins to read

I didn’t know Paul Pinn that well on a personal level; we met in person once or twice, spoke on the phone a handful of times and corresponded by email. He wasn’t much taller than me, as I recall, with long dark greying hair pulled back in a ponytail and a strong London accent. There …

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The Cutting Room – Sadako vs. Kayako

May 5, 2016
2 mins to read

A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki. Why we’re looking forward to this: What’s better than a new film featuring your favourite monster or psychopath, or indeed a new film …

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Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly and Diseases Of The Teeth by Simon Kurt Unsworth

May 3, 2016
5 mins to read

Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly “Connolly balances both human and supernatural horrors with aplomb.” Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, …