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Nosferatu Casket from Titan Casket

In the wake of the Nosferatu popcorn bucket and Nosferatu sarcophagus bed, the ante has been upped with the official Nosferatu casket.

Created by Titan Casket, the limited edition casket features a vampiric black high gloss finish steel exterior with a red velvet interior featuring the film’s logo on the head panel and gold hardware.

It costs $3,999, which isn’t a bad price considering you’ll spend eternity in it. Plus, Titan plants 10 trees for every casket purchased!

Nightmare on Elm Street & Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Posters by Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee lends his Doppelgangers art style to A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 for...

Having made a name for himself on the strength of his previous shorts “The Rope Maiden” and “Difficulty Breathing,” British-born but Japanese-based exploitation maestro Guy has taken up the mantle laid down from underground filmmaker Shozin Fukui as the new name to watch for extreme experimental horror. Trying his hand at a long-form feature film following those acclaimed shorts, Guy's first film “The Sound of Summer” is now available to the masses from Unearthed Films.

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In the relentless heat of the grueling summer, temperatures soar to blistering levels as cicadas emerge to sing their ear-shattering song. Months of continued exposure is enough to make anyone start to feel a little off. Anyone, that is, except that oddity the locals call ‘The Cicada Man'. Who is that strange man (Shinya Hakawa) and why is he always walking around with boxes full of live cicadas?...

“A rebellious high school student is brought back to life in a strange underground facility after committing suicide. Now, she must piece together not only how and why she has been resurrected, but also confront the fragmented memories of her past and the horrors of the laboratory that want to send her back to the afterlife.” (Ablaze)

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“Zombie Makeout Club” is the brainchild of Peter Richardson, notable for the clothing design site whose sleek aesthetics and admiration of Japanese counter-culture have made it a recognizable and sought-after brand. Spinning out of this concept came an original webtoon to compliment the work, while further expanding on the lore behind the brand. In the footnotes of this release, Richardson notes that the work was inspired by Japanese Cyber-punk features like “Tetsuo The Iron Man” and “Rubbers Love”. This much becomes obvious in the final product,...

Yohta Kawase was born on December 28, 1969 in Kawasaki, Japan. He started his career as assistant director to Shozin Fukui in the 90s, but soon turned into acting. Currently, he has more than 150 films under his belt, most of which belong to the pinku genre. His latest works include “Blank 13” by Takumi Saitoh, “Demolition Girl” by Genta Matsugami and “A Balance” by Yujiro Harumoto, which premiered at the latest Berlinale.

We speak with him about his prolific career, acting in pink films, Takahisa Zeze, Yutaka Ikejima and Daisuke Goto, the latest generation of Japanese directors, his latest work, “Rageaholic” and many other topics.

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You started your career in pinku films and you have won many awards for your performances. How did that come about and how was your experience of acting in those films? Was it difficult acting in all those sex scenes?

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It’s kind of incredible that the Crypt of Curiosities has gone on so long before I wrote about Japanese Cyberpunk. As longtime readers of the column (or anyone who has glanced at my Twitter feed) knows, some of my absolute favorite things in the world are sci-fi, goopy monsters, body horror, and wild underground Asian cinema. Naturally, Japanese Cyberpunk’s often low-budget, always boundary-pushing, maverick sci-fi/horror sensibilities and I go together like peanut butter and jelly, or more appropriately, man and nightmarish mechanical implant. So, in this entry, we’ll be taking a look at the works of one of the movement’s most out-there, boundary-stretching patron saints: the infamous Shozin Fukui.

Shozin Fukui is, for lack of a better term, one weird dude. In the ’80s, he made his first steps into the industry by directing music videos, the Possession (1981)-inspired “vomit terrorism” short Gerorisuto (1986), and the...

There are lots and lots of different movies on the indie horror market these days, but very few of them feel anything like those of Sculpting Fragments’ Guy Pearce. No, not the Memento star, the former YouTube film critic turned underground horror director. While he only has two short films currently available—the comedic Guinea Pig send-up The Rope Maiden (2013) and the highly disturbing psychological horror movie Difficulty Breathing (2017)—he’s already defined a unique voice built on a deep knowledge and real burning passion for bizarro cinema.

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to Guy and picking his brains about Japanese cyberpunk, aggressive soundscapes, meeting oddball filmmaker extraordinaire Shozin Fukui, and more.

It’s clear you take a ton of cues from underground Japanese cinema, particularly Japanese cyberpunk and extreme horror. What about these films inspires you?

Guy Pearce: The Japanese cyberpunk genre defies all law and logic of cinema—it’s great!

Shozin Fukui is one of Japan's hidden cyberpunk talents. After a period of experimentation that resulted in three short films, he burst onto the scene with his first full-length feature film: 964 Pinocchio. It's not what you call a very accessible film, probably one of the most relentless films I know, but cyberpunk fans really owe it to themselves to check it out as it takes the whole punk atmosphere to a new level.When people are talking about Japanese cyberpunk (not your everyday conversation topic, but still) the conversation inevitably centers around Shinya Tsukamto (Tetsuo, Vital, Tetsuo: Bullet Man, Nightmare Detective 2 and Sogo Ishii (Dead End Run, Kyoshin, Electric Dragon 80000V, August In The Water). Dig any deeper and you're likely to encounter Fukui's...

From the excellent Nippon Cinema comes the trailer for a 29 minute short film which delves into some of my favorite territory: It's experimental and post apocalyptic! And better yet, it's from Shozin Fukui (Pinocchio 964, Rubber's Lover).

A virus called S-94 has wiped out most of human civilization by 2010. Only two women survive the pandemic and now live together within the confines of a secluded shelter: Miu (Nozomi Hatsuki), who desperately wants to live, and the suicidal Ice (Yuko Tatsushima). Even though they have opposite outlooks, they’ve been able to maintain balance so far. That balance is shattered one day when a new survivor named Shuma (Yuya Ishikawa) enters the picture. They find out about his existence through a radio broadcast and begin to fight over him in the face of an otherwise hopeless future.

Trailer after the break.

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