Marvelous Videos presents under-loved B-horror films from great directors…. Even famous niche directors have underrated gems in their filmography. They’ve created so much wonderful content for audiences (and fans!) to digest that some of their smaller/undermarketed works fly under the radar. Which is a shame because they put just as much effort into them as […]
October Horrors 2020 – Cure (1997)
Cure, 1997. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. SYNOPSIS: Detective Takabe is perplexed by a series of grisly murders in which the perpetrators claim to have no memory of the crime. While seemingly random and unrelated, the murders all share one common trait, the carving of the […]
Blu-ray Review – Pulse (2001)
Pulse, 2001. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, and Kurume Arisaka. SYNOPSIS: After a computer programmer commits suicide his friends start to experience strange happenings through their computers. Arrow Video delve back into their vault of millennial J-horror with Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 cult favourite Pulse, a morose meditation on isolation, death […]
60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Creepy (2016)
Creepy, 2016. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Masahiro Higaside and Teruyuki Kagawa. SYNOPSIS: Retired detective turned university professor Takakura is called upon by a former colleague to help in the investigation of a family that vanished six years prior, with the daughter of the family being the sole remaining member and […]
Fantasia International Film Festival Review – Creepy (2016)
Creepy, 2016. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yuko Takeuchi and Haruna Kawaguchi. SYNOPSIS: Takakura, a recently retired police detective with a specialty in serial killers, has moved to a new neighborhood with his wife Yasuko. The pair quickly learn that their neighbors are of an odd sort, particularly the off-putting Nishino. […]
Movie Review – Hitchcock/Truffaut (2016)
Hitchcock/Truffaut, 2016. Directed by Kent Jones. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut. SYNOPSIS: Filmmakers look at the impact Francois Truffaut’s 1966 book ‘Cinema According to Hitchcock’ had on Hitchcock’s reputation, and their own films. […]
