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...Until recently, Asian horror movies?with titles like Chinese Torture Chamber Story and Reborn From Hell: Samurai Armageddon?were geared to what are politely referred to as niche audiences. That all changed in 1998 with Ichise's stylishly creepy Ringu, which Hollywood remade as The Ring. Ringu earned nearly $20 million, the sequel took in double that, and the Hollywood remake grossed $230 million. Viewers found themselves face to face with a new Asian beast: scare flicks that kept them suspended in fear, instead of grossed out by gore. As a result, says Danny Pang, co-director of the Hong...
...Japan in 1997 after a stint in Hollywood, he discovered a clique of talented young directors, including Ringu's Hideo Nakata and Ju-on's Takashi Shimizu, absorbed with making straight-to-video ghost stories. Working with budgets of about $10,000 per one-hour segment forced Asian horror's avant-gardists to rely on suspense instead of special effects. "With horror, bigger budgets don't necessarily mean better movies," says Ichise. "This group was making terrifying stuff on a shoestring. The Asian horror-movie boom that everybody's talking about grew out of that scene." To make Ringu, Ichise...
...Inspired by the success of Japanese horror, other moviemakers around Asia have also embraced the genre. Most of the resulting films are ghost tales that overlay rustic superstitions onto a canvas of urban, middle-class life. They're populated by loners (like a suicidal psychic girl in Korea's The Uninvited), broken families (a traumatized single mother and her daughter in Nakata's Dark Water)?and the disheveled, raven-haired girl ghosts that have come to symbolize Asian horror. Settings are as alienating as the characters are alienated: cramped, paranoid visuals draw out the spooky possibilities of creaky old buildings...
THEATER | The Rocky Horror Show...
...case you just can’t do the “Time Warp” at the Saturday night performances at the Harvard Square Loew’s, try The Footlight Club’s live version of The Rocky Horror Show. Leave your water pistols and rice at home: the producers want to keep the historical Eliot Hall in good condition. Tickets $21. 8 p.m. Running through Nov. 13. Call (617) 524-3200 for more info. Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain...