Matt Konopka looks back at Hideo Nakata's 'The Ring' and how Kôji Suzuki's eerie tale sparked the J-horror boom.

His “Ring” trilogy helped create a genre known as J-horror and spawned a multimedia franchise, including one of the ...

Featuring interviews with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse), Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge), and many more, the documentary is now streaming on Shudder. Reading time 3 minutes A pervasive feeling of dread. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January of 2005, I was a 12-year-old in my first year of junior high. After a period of adjustment, I finally made a friend, ...

Koji Suzuki, the celebrated Japanese author behind the iconic horror novel Ring, has passed away at the age of 68. Suzuki's ...

Visage draws inspiration from P.T. and J-horror, offering intense and punchy scares. The Mortuary Assistant delivers powerful scares through J-horror-based workplace supernatural encounters. The ...

You know director Kōji Shiraishi, even if you think you don’t. He’s directed J-horror classics like the acclaimed Noroi: The Curse and the campier classic, Sadako vs Kayako. If you’re looking for ...

The horror world is mourning the loss of Japanese author Koji Suzuki ('Ringu'), whose work ignited the J-horror boom. He was ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

When I was a kid, I was terrified of showering. I’d been scared by titles like Arachnophobia, Final Destination, and of course Psycho. If I took a shower, I was going to get murdered by a serial ...

Eihi Shiina as Asami wearing a blue jacket and smiling in Audition - Omega Project There are gnarly horror movies, and then there's Takashi Miike's "Audition." The 1999 film was based on the 1997 Ryū ...

Now streaming on Shudder, Yûta Shimotsu's tale follows a young woman who discovers an outrageous family secret—and spirals down from there. Reading time 3 minutes New Shudder release Best Wishes to ...