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In an odd turn of events, this list has a number of films that don’t have English-language titles. They just go by whatever the original title was. Good for us. What we do see in this portion of the list is a few movies that weren’t really created specifically to be horror films, but their themes and visuals made it so. In addition, we have some heavyweights of non-horror cinema creating horror films that push the genre all the more upward. “Thinking man horror,” if you will.

20. Le locataire (1976)

English Language Title: The Tenant

Directed by: Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski has made one of the greatest horror “trilogies” of all time with 1965′s British production Repulsion, 1968′s American production Rosemary’s Baby, and 1976′s French production The Tenant, completing his “Apartment Trilogy.” Unlike the other two, Polanski actually stars in The Tenant as Trelkovsky, a reserved man renting an apartment in Paris.

Toshio, the ghost boy who made audiences scared of cat meowing, is back. After being announced just a few months ago, an official trailer has already been released for Ju-on: Owari no Hajimari, or The Grudge: Beginning of the End, the seventh entry in the popular Japanese Ju-on horror franchise.

Set to be released in Japan on June 28th, Ju-on: Owari no Hajimari is written and directed by Masayuki Ochiai (2008 remake of Shutter) and stars Nozomi Sasaki and Kai Kobayashi. This is the first Japanese Ju-on film since 2009′s Ju-on: White Ghost (2009).

“An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who’s been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrific tragedy which occurred in the Saeki household 10 years earlier. A cardboard box left in a closet holds the key to revealing a long-hidden truth.

A new installment of J-horror series 'Ju-on: The Grudge' is heading our way. It's been 5 years since the Ryuta Miyake and Mari Asato helmed double feature 'Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost' which celebrated the tenth anniversary in the series. 'Shutter' helmer Masayuki Ochiai will both write and direct 'Ju-on: Owari no Hajimari' (Aka 'The Grudge: Beginning of the End') and the movie is set for a theatrical release over in Japan from 28 June 2014. 'Owari no Hajimari' will mark the seventh chapter in the original Japanese series which also spawned an American remake and a further 2 sequels. Check out the plot synopsis below....

Apollo 18 , Undocumented and Ju-On: White Ghost/Black Ghost are reviewed in this latest edition of Shock Waves featuring Shock Till You Drop's Ryan Turek and FEARnet's Lawrence Raffel. Also on the conversation slab: Their thoughts on Stephen King's "Under the Dome" and Showtime's planned adaptation of the novel. Also, is The Walking Dead lost without Frank Darabont? The two take a look at some of the horror-themed apps out there for your iPhone/iPad such as the Army of Darkness and Evil Dead games and, finally, for the "feature presentation" section of the podcast, a discussion about the "forbidden fruit" films of horror. We hope you dig it! Also, we always want to know what you think of the podcast, so please feel free to review us at...

Like a chalk-faced, black-haired female ghoul crawling backwards at you across a ceiling, the Grudge franchise refuses to die. Two years after Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures denied any possibility of a fourth American instalment, Bd have the scoop that The Grudge 4 is indeed in the works.It's a curse that keeps on being reborn, which is appropriate, given that that's the hook of the entire unwieldy series. Beginning with short films and two Japanese TV movies in the late 90s, director Takashi Shimizu spun the Ju-On tale into two theatrical Japanese features in 2003. He then helmed a Hollywood remake of the first starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2004, and stayed around for 2006's The Grudge 2, which again featured Gellar but was a stand-alone movie not based on Ju-On 2. Following this so far?Then in 2009, we have two new non-Shimizu Japanese entires in Old Lady in White and...

Well Go USA will release the two latest Japanese horror films to bear the Ju-on name series in a two-movie package. Ju-On: White Ghost / Black Ghost—consisting of the 2009 films The Grudge: Old Lady in White and The Grudge: Girl in Black—will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 17.

There's more J-horror lurking on the horizon in Ju-on: White Ghost/Black Ghost.

The two movies are not official sequels to the Takashi Shimizu’s original Ju-on films from the early 2000s (which launched the J-horror craze and a slew of American remakes in the U.S., which has since settled down a bit). Still, they both look to be pretty creepy and complete with the ghostly, scary-as-hell images of long-haired children that frightened the hell out of us when we first saw the films years ago.

Here are some quick synopses of the two films:

Ju-on: White Ghost...