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The West has a tendency to lump horror from East and Southeast Asia into one basic but limiting category. Because of this, someone might write off an entire continent’s contributions to the genre based solely on a few popular movies with similar plots and executions. However, Eric Khoo’s series Folklore highlights — not to mention celebrates — the differences that make each episode’s depicted culture so unique. That’s not to say there isn’t an overall theme here. This anthology show emphasizes a commonality among its stories; every tale of terror draws from the supernatural. More specifically, each self-contained episode is based on a local custom, myth or superstition. And as the second season demonstrates with both flair and potency, defying the past and ignoring tradition has serious consequences.

Like other anthology series, there is no specific order when watching the episodes. Skipping around is surely an option,...

A bulky selection of new stills from the Masayuki Ochiai ('Shutter') directed horror sequel 'Ju-On: Beginning of the End' have arrived bringing with them more spooky images of Kayako and Toshio amongst some new faces set to come across this ghostly duo in the latest installment. The next chapter in the the long-running J-horror franchise will be making an appearance at this months Fantasia International Film Festival and was unleashed into Japanese theatres last month. Nozomi Sasaki, Sho Aoyagi, Kai Kobayashi, Reina Triendl, Miho Kanazawa and Haori Takahashi all star. Check out the new images below....

In honor of it playing as part of this year's Fantasia Film Festival, we now have over a dozen images from Ju-on: Beginning of the End for you cats to start screeching over. Or maybe that screeching is just Toshio again. In any event...

Directed by Ochiai Masayuki (Infection, Hypnosis and the 2008 remake of Shutter), the sequel stars Nozomi Sasaki, Sho Aoyagi, Kai Kobayashi, Reina Triendl, Miho Kanazawa and Haori Takahashi.

Synopsis

An elementary school teacher named Yui (Sasaki) visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki (Kobayashi), 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.

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While we wait for the recently announced second remake of Ju-on (aka The Grudge), a seventh installment in the original Japanese franchise is on its way, set to open in Japan on June 28th. It's titled Ju-on: Beginning of the End, and today we've got the Japanese trailer for ya...

...which is guaranteed to make those pesky little hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Enjoy!

Directed by Ochiai Masayuki (Infection, Hypnosis and the 2008 remake of Shutter), the sequel stars Nozomi Sasaki, Sho Aoyagi, Kai Kobayashi, Reina Triendl, Miho Kanazawa and Haori Takahashi.

Synopsis

An elementary school teacher named Yui (Sasaki) visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki (Kobayashi), 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.