any good rare J-Horror movies?
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klownz — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 07:40 AM)
I only know a small handful of users on this board that seem to watch Asian horror on a regular basis and on all other horror forums i have used its the same way with only a small minority actually watching on a regular basis.
I am on a few facebook groups dedicated to Asian horror & even they are dead most the time (other than my group of course
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One theory i came up with for a reason why this might be is lots of the most popular mainstream films are ghost flicks & some people mistakenly think "all Asian horror is the same" when it really isn't.
Another complaint i have seen a few times is all "Asian people look the same"
so are more difficult to follow.
And there are more practical problems as well like availability & availability of subtitles + mainstream horror sites don't cover them much even bloggers don't cover them much (going by my twitter feed i get tagged a lot for retweets by lots of bloggers & very rarely are they ever about Asian films.)
One last thing i notice is most people into Asian horror who i have spoken with got into it in a similar kind of way starting with the mini boom seen after Ringu, Ju-On etc. so haven't been watching Asian horror anywhere near the amount of time they have been watching other horror like USA & Italy for example which you could pick up easy at any VHS rental shop back in the day i don't recall ever seeing a single Japanese horror film available on vhs as a teenager. -
AlamoScout210 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 02:33 PM)
Yeah your right about that, I don't recall Asian horror being all that prevalent in the 80's and really didn't go out looking for it but at the same time, there were a lot of TOHO pictures and other asian horror flicks like Daijiman, Dogora and Mantango playing on Saturday afternoons that the older generation like myself grew up on, and so when Asian horror started gaining mainstream western attraction it was great but also a double edged sword since now were flooded with just as much crappy asian horror as we are western horror, which is good or bad I guess.
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NoseofNicko — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 02:01 PM)
I think it's more that they don't want to read subtitles. IMO people who avoid horror movies that have great reputations only because they would have to read subtitles shouldn't call themselves real horror fans.
CG gore is the worst thing that has ever happened to the horror genre. -