‘A nasty, nightmarish thrill ride from a master of gore’ Morbidly Gruesome ‘Energetic direction by Ryuhei Kitamura, excellent practical gore effects and strong performances’ Variety ‘Ramps up the gratuitous gore along with a clever twist that blurs the line between good and evil’ Cinemalogue Get more bang for…
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THE PRICE WE PAY *** USA 2022 Dir: Ryûhei Kitamura. 85 mins Japanese director Ryûhei Kitamura has been in the genre business since the late 90s, scoring a cult hit with the inventive low budgeter VERSUS (2000) and crossing over into visceral American genre fare via the suitably crunchy Clive…
VERSUS *** Japan 2000 Dir: Ryûhei Kitamura. 119 mins Legend has it that our world contains 666 portals to the ‘other side’ – the next dimension – and in Japan there is the 444th portal, which lies hidden in the Forest of Resurrection, where the whole of this movie takes…
NIGHTMARE CINEMA **** USA 2018 Dir: Joe Dante, Mick Garris, David Slade, Alejandro Brugues, Ryuhei Kitamura. 119 mins At last: a really satisfying horror anthology movie. The framing story features projectionist Mickey Rourke intimidating those who stumble across his old-fashioned Rialto movie theatre and referring to himself as “the curator…