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Apartment 7A is a psychological horror thriller film directed by Natalie Erika James who also co-wrote the film with Christian White and Skylar James. Based on the 1967 novel titled Rosemary’s Baby by author Ira Levin, the Paramount+ film serves as a prequel to the iconic 1968 film by Roman Polanski. Apartment 7A is set in 1965 in New York City and it follows the story of a young dancer who rents a room from an elderly couple after suffering from a serious injury that ends her career. Apartment 7A stars Julia Garner, Dianne West, Kevin McNally, Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Amy Leeson, Scott Hume, and Andrew Buchan. So, if you loved the psychological horror, edge-of-the-seat thrills, and compelling characters in Apartment 7A here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Rosemary’s Baby Credit – Paramount Pictures

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Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week — and since we’re off next week, you get an extra item!

Ghoulies Plushes from Toynk

Who among us hasn’t wanted to cuddle with the Ghoulies? Your dream can come true in the end, thanks to Toynk.

Summon 14″ plush toys of Fish Ghoulie, Cat Ghoulie, and Rat Ghoulie for $30 each. They’re currently eligible for a Buy 3, Get 1 Free deal.

Creature from the Black Lagoon Figure from Super 7

Creature from the Black Lagoon is joining Super7’s Super Cyborg line of “x-ray” toys next month for $125. Shipping is free with the code WINTER79.

The 11″ action figure features three removable panels that expose the anatomy of Gillman’s head, arm, and torso. It has seven points of articulation.

Ema (Hinako Sakurai), a temporary worker who is aiming for full-time employment, loses her job after protesting against her boss who has been sexually harassing her junior colleague. In desperation, Ema ends up helping at a perfume store run by the beautiful and elegant Yayoi (Hitomi Kuroki), who is also known as Ms Witch. With Yayoi's words of wisdom and the perfumes she creates, Ema decides to take charge of her own life and starts working at a fragrance company. How will Ema's destiny change as she works hard to carve out a future with the power of her witch's perfume “Parfum de prières”?

Written and directed by Yui Miyatake (Jazz Jii Men), this movie will open in Japan on June 16, 2023.

Laha Mebow became the first woman from Taiwan to win the best director prize for ‘Gaga’.

Taiwanese family drama Coo-Coo 043 won best film and Hong Kong crime drama Limbo picked up the most prizes at the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan on Saturday night (November 19) as Hong Kong cinema made a grand return winning nine awards.

The prizes were quite evenly distributed this year, with no single film sweeping the 59th edition of the annual ceremony, which was held at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.

Scroll down for list of winners

Chan Ching-lin’s feature debut Coo-Coo 043, set...

The Opening Ceremony for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022 was held at Line Cube Shibuya on June 7th (Tue). 9 awards were presented at the ceremony. U-25 Program, Shibuya Diversity Award, Biogen Award, Book Shorts Award, Amuse Musical Short Film Pitch Competition, Milbon Beauty Award, Save the Earth! Minister’s Award, the Ministry of the Environment & J-wave Award, and Global Spotlight Award.

Ssff & Asia received 5720 entries for the competitions including Official Competition supported by Sony from 126 countries & regions. The judges will select best short awards of each category: International, Asia International, Japan, Non-Fiction, and Animation among about 200 finalists. Grand-Prix is selected from winners of the Academy Awards Accredited 5 Competitions. Each winner will be eligible to the Oscar of the short film category next year and will be announced on June 20th at Meiji-Jingu Kaikan in Tokyo. Ssff & Asia 2022 has begun its screening from today till June 20th at Tokyo as well as Online Venue.

Directed by veteran-actress turned filmmaker Hitomi Kuroki, “The Devil Wears Jini-Hitoe Kimono” is a visually impressive movie that focuses though, a bit too much on impression instead of substance, much like its title.

Rai Ito is a young man who has failed 59 times to land a regular job, working mostly part-time in whatever work comes his way. His girlfriend is fed up with his failures, and inevitably dumps him, while his brother’s success in passing the medical school entrance exams, puts even more pressure on him, particularly since he feels that he does not fit even with his family. As the story begins, he is working on setting up an exhibition for classic novel “The Tale of Genji”, which the film synopsizes through a rather appealing retro-style animation. The parts about the two brothers, Ninomiya and Ichinomiya, resonate with him since he has a similar relationship with his younger brother.

Canada’S Largest Showcase Of Contemporary Japanese Cinema

Streams Across Canada

Saturday, June 5 – Sunday, June 27, 2021

Monday, May 10, 2021 – The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (Tjff) will be presented across Canada from Saturday, June 5 to Sunday, 27, 2021. During this period, Tjff screenings will be held online, using the Cinesend festival platform, with select onsite screenings at the Jccc’s Kobayashi Hall planned for October, public health protocols permitting. The festival is one of the largest film events of its kind in the world and is recognized by the Japanese film industry as a vital conduit for bringing Japanese film to international audiences.

“When we held the first Toronto Japanese Film Festival, we never dreamed we’d be celebrating our 10th anniversary during a pandemic, said Tjff Director James Heron. “We also never dreamed the festival would be so well attended, loved by Toronto audiences and embraced by...

The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (Tjff) will be presented across Canada from Saturday, June 5 to Sunday, 27, 2021. During this period, Tjff screenings will be held online, using the Cinesend festival platform, with select onsite screenings at the Jccc’s Kobayashi Hall planned for October, public health protocols permitting. The festival is one of the largest film events of its kind in the world and is recognized by the Japanese film industry as a vital conduit for bringing Japanese film to international audiences.

“When we held the first Toronto Japanese Film Festival, we never dreamed we’d be celebrating our 10th anniversary during a pandemic, said Tjff Director James Heron. “We also never dreamed the festival would be so well attended, loved by Toronto audiences and embraced by Japanese directors and actors as the place to introduce their films to North American audiences. On this...

Sada Abe, the name that became infamously linked to sexual obsession and desire in 1936. After she killed her lover by erotically asphyxiating him, she cut off his genitals and walked around with them in her kimono until she was arrested a couple of days later. This true story has been fascinating people for many decades and inspired several filmmakers to tell her story. Most famous is “Ai no korida”, internationally known as “In the Realm of the Senses”, a 1976 French-Japanese co-production that shocked audiences with its explicit sex scenes. This film, “Sada: Gesaku ・Abe Sada no shougai”, internationally simply known as “Sada”, tells the same story, but through the vision of director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

With the legacy of “In the Realm of the Senses” preceding it, it is immediately clear that Obayashi made his version of the infamous tale something completely different. He spends the first half...

The film is currently in production for local release this autumn.

Japan’s Toei has launched sales on romantic feature Taberu Onna (working title), directed by Jiro Shono (Time Lost, Time Found), at Filmart.

A tale of eight women of different ages, occupations and perspectives trying to find their own ways of living through food and sex, the film stars Kyoko Koizumi (Tokyo Sonata), Erika Sawajiri (Shinjuku Swan), Atsuko Maeda (Kabukicho Love Hotel), Kyoka Suzuki (The Kiyosu Conference), Alice Hirose, Yu Yamada, Dan Mitsu and Charlotte Kate Fox. Currently in production, it is set for release locally this autumn.

Toei...

Kirsten Howard Mar 31, 2017

From The Shining to I Origins, these are just some of the worst offenders when it comes to moving between floors...

This article contains spoilers for just about every film on its list.

I don’t know when it started exactly.

When I was very young, it was fine. I maybe even enjoyed getting on an elevator and being whisked off, but somewhere in the timeline of my life, something changed. I began to dread stepping onto one. My heart would pound, a cold sweat would creep down my neck and my breath would quicken.

“What’s wrong?” a bemused acquaintance would ask as we were about to embark.

“Oh! Nothing, really,” I’d respond as casually as I could for someone suddenly about to lose control of their bowels. “I just thought I might take the stairs. Bit of exercise, you know.”

“But it…it’s 18 flights,...

Hideo Nakata, having directed both this one and The Ring, established himself as the most commercially successful filmmaker of J-Horror. “Dark Water” won awards in festivals all over the world, including the Jury’s Choice Award at the 2009 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. An American remake with the same name was released in 2005. The book and its manga adaptation were also published in English in the Us.

Someone lingered

Yoshimi is a divorced mother who is seeking sole custody of her little daughter, Ikuko. While searching for an apartment, she chooses a run-down and cheap one. She enrolls Ikuko in a nearby kindergarten and she gets a job as a proofreader. Eventually, she realizes that the flat hides much more than the moisture in the walls. The family who lived upstairs also had a small daughter who disappeared mysteriously a year earlier. The couple moved, but a little girl with...

Bloodsuckers, the water-soaked paranormal, and a Herschell Gordon Lewis film collection are coming out on Blu-ray this October from Arrow Video, and the official special features lists and cover art for The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast collection, Dark Water (2002), and 1986's Vamp tease plenty to enjoy on all three releases:

"Mvd Entertainment Group furthers the distribution of Arrow Video in the Us with several new titles in October...

Dark Water [Blu-ray + DVD] (October 11th)

After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the "dead wet girl" to new heights of suspense and drama.

Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko.

Qin Hailu and Wang Qianyuan amongst new cast members.

Beijing Galloping Horse has announced four additions to the cast of John Woo’s The Crossing, including award-winning Chinese actress Qin Hailu and actor Wang Qianyuan.

Qin and Wang both previously starred in Chinese drama The Piano In A Factory. Qin’s credits also include Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian, for which she won best actress and newcomer at the Golden Horse Awards. Wang won best actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival for Piano.

Also joining the cast of Woo’s $40m two-part epic are veteran actress Feihong Yu (The Joy Luck Club) and Japanese actress Hitomi Kuroki (Paradise Lost).

Currently in production, The Crossing follows the journey of three doomed couples travelling from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949. The ensemble cast also includes Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Song Hye-kyo, Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Japan’s Masami Nagasawa.

Bgh is producing with Woo and Terence Chang’s [link...

"Yoshimitsu Morita, whose films depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of everyday life in conformist Japan, has died," reports Yuri Kagayama for the AP. "He was 61." His breakthrough came with The Family Game (1983), winner of five Kinema Junpo Awards — Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor (Yusaku Matsuda) and Supporting Actor (Jûzô Itami) — in which Matsuda plays "an offbeat tutor who forms a heartwarming relationship with a young man in a stereotypical middle-class family."

"Though even its most perceptive commentators reduce Kazoku geimu (Family Game) to a critique of 'affluent, middle-class nuclear family life in the city and nose-to-the-grindstone education systems' [Keiko McDonald in 1989], Morita's most widely known film is before all else hilarious," wrote Bob Davis in Senses of Cinema in 2006. "Its laughs derive from inappropriate and idiosyncratic behavior, unseemly frankness, slapstick antics, gross-out tactics, repetitions, exaggerations, explosive contrasts, and unnatural pacing." In Davis's "brazen 'ranking' of Morita's films, Family Game, Deaths in Tokimeki, Sorekara [And Then], Keiho,...

If the quality of mainstream American horror started to wane in the 1990s, that downward trajectory continued unhindered into the 21st century. If a horror movie was in the box office top 10 at any given point, more likely than not it was a remake, or at least a sequel. In a spectacularly unimaginative attempt to revive the genre, studios plundered their back catalogues and churned out remakes of just about every classic post-1970 horror movie, and many of the not-so-classics too. Slasher franchises in particular, many of which barely had any substance the first time around, were revived. James Wan’s movie Saw (2004) was a hit and produced six sequels (though still no Jigsaw Takes Manhattan).

Apparently even more enticing to studios was the prospect of remaking a foreign language movie; since some people simply won’t watch foreign movies then the material is bound to be new to them,...

In horror films, old dark houses have their place, but as hell is other people apartments are far spookier

In Dream Home, the owners of the flat on which Josie Ho is about to exchange contracts suddenly jack the price up beyond her reach, so she goes on a killing spree in the apartment block. Who can blame her? As anyone who has ever been gazumped, gazundered or gaziddled can attest, being cheated out of the property on which you've set your heart is enough to make anyone think bad thoughts, though I'd like to believe not many of us would go as far as Josie in the disembowelling and penis-lopping stakes.

I'm surprised there aren't more slasher movies set in flats. Tenants or flatmates can bring out the psycho in all of us simply by using electric drills in the middle of the night (Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights...