The Film Theorists’ has just uploaded a video essay built around the question of which element do Japanese horror films make them effective. The answer, gathers “Frame by Frame,” is with how these films make intelligent use of sound design and engineering. It’s an agreeable diagnosis, what with the wave
Tag: The Grudge
‘Sadako Vs. Kayako’, starring a woman unlucky enough she’s cursed, twice
So. This is what it has become. We have officially crossed over (ha! Me and my puns!) to the abyss of no return—the franchise crossovers. You would think it natural for Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kreuger, but not for Sadako and Kayako. You would think it’s Western Spirit, the kind
