October 23–31, 2020

J‑Horror!

Japanese horror has always set the bar high when it comes to making your skin crawl.”

Anne Billson, The Guardian

Let’s see. Dead-eyed, pallid-skinned ghoul children? Manic visions of transhumanism run amok? Slow-burn chills that one-eighty into stomach-turning gore? Gonzo, goofy, ghost-story psychedelia? Yep, boxes are checked for The Cinematheque’s J‑horror primer this Halloween, featuring five benchmark blood-curdlers from the land of high-art horror, Japan. Four of the films arrive in optic-frying new restorations, with a digitally refurbished Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) receiving its North American theatrical debut. There’ll be nightmare fuel aplenty, dear scream seekers! As if 2020 wasn’t already scary enough…

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List of Programmed Films

Date Film Title Director(s) Year Country
2020-Oct Ring Hideo Nakata 1998 Japan
2020-Oct Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto 1989 Japan
2020-Oct Dark Water Hideo Nakata 2002 Japan
2020-Oct House Obayashi Nobuhiko 1977 Japan
2020-Oct Audition Takashi Miike 1999 Japan