J-Horror in the current Esquire

[Mark Nornes]

Comin' to Getcha
  The latest Japanese import? Pure, unadulterated fear .
  by Mike D'Angelo | Apr 01 '05

The most terrifying moment I've ever experienced in a movie theater 
happened four years ago, at the Toronto Film Festival, roughly half an 
hour into a Japanese picture called Pulse . Like most Japanese horror 
films of the past century, Pulse is a ghost story, and like much recent 
"J-horror" (as the genre has come to be known to U.S. film buffs), it's 
predicated on a fear of modern technology, with a plot involving a 
haunted Web site. The scene that got the hair on my forearms and the 
back of my neck doing the wave, however, is decidedly low ......
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 1351 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/private/kinejapan/attachments/20050314/ac7cca35/attachment.bin