Top 1. 0 Japanese Horror Movies That Are Crazy. The word “crazy” is usually never used as a positive, unless it’s referring to maybe a work of art, an unbelievable performance onscreen, onstage, or, ahem, in the bedroom, but we can all pretty much agree that it has a negative connotation overall, right? Yet it seems that the more horror movies come out, the more they can be classified as buttshit remakes of classic 8. And as a result, the word “crazy” can’t really be used to describe a horror movie anymore. But thankfully, this is almost never, EVER the case when it comes to Japanese horror films. And no, I’m not talking about the ultra- B horror films from Japan that are a cross between something you can film with your iphone and something a student would submit as a mid- term project for a special effects class. And I’m definitely not even going to use the word “crazy” in reference to all the torture films from Japan, like “Grotesque” or the infamous “Guinea Pig” series. Those need another word entirely to accurately convey the brutality and almost too fucked up to watch acts of violence and gore they deliver. No, I think the word “crazy” has its own special category of Japanese horror films that if you watch them, the very first thing you’ll think to yourself when their credits roll is, “What the fuck did I just watch? That shit was craaazy!”I know, because for every movie on my top ten Japanese horror movies that are crazy listed below, I said those exact words at least once, and usually the second I got done watching them. I have a novel, entered in a contest but not published yet, that is written in first person. I chose that because much of the book is interior dialogue and it just. The best source for the latest horror movie news, videos, and podcasts. Watch scary movie trailers, and find the top streaming horror movies. Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying. Information from the Internet Movie Database about the 1976 film Carrie. Share this Rating. Title: The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) 4.4 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Everybody likes horror movies, but not everybody has the time to really delve into them and explore the genre. There are just too many, and unless you’re actively. And here’s the thing, J- Horror has been part of the world’s consciousness for awhile now. I would venture to say that movies like Ringu and Ju- On and their American remakes catapaulted at least one brand of J- Horror, the long, black haired, white funeral shroud, no footed Yurei out for revenge type, into everyday American households and stores. That kind of opened the floodgates for Hollywood to either remake J- horror films or other Asian horror films as quickly as possible, in order to capitalize on the success of the remakes of films like Ringu and Ju- On. I mean, I remember walking into Wal- Mart, of all places, and seeing Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s PULSE in the dvd section, and also one day seeing tons of translated Asian horror films beginning to pop up on the shelves at Hollywood Video. It was kind of a Golden Era of J- Horror, if you will, circa 1. It was during this Golden Era that I not only began watching every single J- horror film I could rent or buy, but I started to see how much MORE there was to J- horror than what made it over here to America. I have websites like Mandi Snowblood Apple and Asian- Horror- Movies. To thank for that. Read on. So I moved to Chicago back in 2. I only stayed in Chicago for exactly a year) was working at a three story, mental health complex. It was actually full of apartments that housed both young girls and young men who had issues that ranged mostly from anorexia to bulimia, but also suicide, drug abuse, and even psychotic disorders. It wasn’t such a bad job, as I learned an enormous amount from the people I worked with, in particular my supervisor who taught me stuff that to this day I have never forgotten, but at the same time, it was extremely scary for me. I often pulled the night shift, working from 1. I also did double shifts on the weekends, working from 3 p. Something always felt off about the 1. I did as well. For example, most nights, I could hear murmuring inside the air vents that ran throughout the building. I mostly kept to the first floor office and living room area during my all nighters, but I would do routine checks on every floor to make sure everyone was okay, and every time, I swear you could hear the walls talking. I’m sure it was just the residents (which on any given shift, numbered between 6 to 1. Yet those voices were there, almost every night. Want to read a Japanese horror story? Buy KAI today on Amazon. Another thing that was creepy was when a patient was on suicide watch and had to come down to the living room area and I had to keep an eye on them from the office, which was adjacent to the living room. So many times, a patient who was confined to sleeping on the couch in the living room area would wake up with severe night terrors. This was especially freaky when these patients had cut themselves up earlier in the day (cutting was a frequent occurrence for many of the girls there. That was never fun cleaning the bloody arms of these poor girls who thought that was a good solution to dealing with their psychological problems). I can remember seeing these girls wake up, screaming and with their noses running, their hair a tangled mess, and their arms up in the air, protesting as though somebody was trying to grab them from the air above the couch, and there it was: All the cuts opening up and turning red because the girls had scratched the band- aids and gauze wraps right off their wounds. I am a night owl, always have been, and in fact right now it’s four in the morning as I write this. And falling asleep was never a problem for me working at this residential building full of girls who cut themselves and have night terrors, for what I’m sure you realize by now are obvious reasons. But the one thing that truly kept me awake all those nights was something else entirely. It was this “crazy” thirst I had for downloading and lining up one Japanese horror film after another on the office computer for me to watch as each night progressed into the next morning. I had to download them, you see, because at exactly 1. It wasn’t like that when I first started doing shifts overnight there, but on one lovely evening that I worked, a girl nearly killed herself because she was in some chat room online at two- something in the morning and was encouraged by some assholes in that room to leave this world because she was too fat and too ugly for anyone to possibly ever love her. She was about 8. 0 pounds soaking wet, tall, thin, not a single facial blemish. She easily could be a model, even if she did gain a healthier weight, but reading these words of encouragement by these fuckstains in the chat room was enough to make her come down to the living room screaming hysterically and almost needing hospitalized too. So yeah, that ended the internet for everyone, which meant that after this incident, as soon as I got to work for my night shifts or double shifts, I would start downloading movies online to watch all night that were full of things that I can only call “crazy.” How fitting, I suppose, given where I was working, but it was also inspiring to me as well. I was writing my first novel, KAI, at the time, which is. A Japanese horror story. Funny how the world works like that, eh? So this list isn’t something I just threw together to score points with Google, or even to wax nostalgic about nights like the ones I spent as a counselor in Chicago watching Japanese horror films. This list seriously contains some of the craziest Japanese horror films I’ve ever seen, and they are definitely the top ten films of Japanese horror that I probably love more than any others. And it’s because of this reason you aren’t going to find classics like the 1. Japanese horror film, Jigoku, or even Ringu or any of the Ju- on titles. Don’t get me wrong. But for me, it takes a certain kind of demented mindset to create the kind of story found in what I considered to be a crazy Japanese horror movie. So yeah, no torture films, black and white throwbacks, or Yurei tales, all of which have their own special place in my heart, of course, but to me, play second fiddle to stories that deal with things like the perfect psychological revenge, a simple fight between roommates that turns into a bloody free for all, and a game that asks how much would you challenge another person to do for a gigantic sum of money? These kind of things are what haunt my mind after years of seeing them. And perhaps they will haunt your mind as well. Ichi the Killer. So no list of Crazy Japanese movies would be a list of crazy Japanese movies without Ichi the Killer being on it. I should preface what I’m about to write with the fact that I am not the biggest fan of this movie, nor is it my favorite Takashi Miike film. I think Takashi has done way better, and way worse, than Ichi the Killer, in his long and storied career making batshit insane films. I could probably fill this entire list up with movies by Miike that are certified loony, but as it so happens, I only felt like two of his films make the final cut (uh, no pun intended). Ichi is one of them. To think that Ichi is already a decade old and then some is probably one of the craziest things about the movie to me now. But I remember first watching it way back when it came out, in 2. And wouldn’t you know it? I found out later that it was based on a manga, by famed artist Hideo Yamamoto. The entire story, plot (if you can find the plot, that is), and the almost caricature- driven portrayals of every single person in this movie, are just more suited for something you would see in 2. D. I think that is why when I watch Ichi that I feel a sense of disorientation, like I am good with the movie for about thirty minutes, then I kind of can’t follow it as much as I would like to, or maybe I’m just blocked from following what’s happening because the plot sort of just disappears into the violence and gore that piles up until the very last scene of the film. BUT, that all sounds too negative of me, and I do have a very valid reason or two for including Ichi on my list. I think above all, any movie that can combine horror with elements of Yakuza films deserves a badge of honor. And Ichi doesn’t disappoint here. There is so much Yakuza madness going on that you suspect you’ve been transported right in the middle of Shinjuku’s seedy underworld. Ways You Can Use a First- Person Narrator to Tell a Better Story. Using a first- person narrator is tricky and should be attempted only by the most experienced hand. In- house editors know this, which is why they no doubt cringed when they saw the opening chapter of my new release The Cat Lady’s Secret. Not only is it in first- person, it’s in present tense. To make matters worse (to make those poor souls snatch themselves baldheaded) the second scene is in third- person, past tense. Oy vey! Since no one outside friends and family knows me from I Love Lucy (except maybe the few hundred who read my first book or follow my blog), I’m lucky I found a publisher. Seriously, that’s how tricky writing in first- person is–and playing around with the tenses doesn’t help the editors’ confidence. I don’t recommend this technique for everyone, but I had my reasons for doing it, and it worked for my manuscript. Fortunately, the good folks at Pelican Book Group agreed. First- person is the deepest of deep POVs, which is what makes it so tricky. There’s a lot to consider before you even start to write. Like why you need to tell the story in first- person to begin with. Here are a few reasons: Use a First- Person Narrator to Present the Story From the “Horse’s Mouth”Try as you might, you’ll never get as deep in third- person as you can in first, because you can’t get past the idea the author is telling the story. But when you use first- person, you are creating the illusion it’s the character telling the story. That’s the character speaking! And even though you can create a terrific voice for your third- person character, you can get away with tons more with a first- person narrator because you’re always in his voice–you can’t afford to shift into your own authorial voice. Let me show you this, from The Cat Lady’s Secret. Millie, my first- person POV character, is eavesdropping on a phone conversation: I don’t want to be too obvious about how far my ear is stretched in Annie’s direction, so I keep my eye on a yellow tabby? Using “she doesn’t want” and “she kept her eye” is telling. The author stepped in to describe the action. Can’t get around it. It’s telling in first- person too, but it’s done in the character’s voice–which means I got away with “telling” instead of “showing.” Like I said, you can get away with a lot in first- person! Use a First- Person Narrator to Tell the Reader the Story of Another Character. In this case, the POV character is an observer/reporter of another character’s life or an event in that life. This gives the illusion of credibility–“I know this to be true because I watched it happen with my own eyes.” The emphasis is on the other character, someone who, for some reason, can’t tell the story herself. This is a built- in blessing, because it automatically raises the question, “Why can’t she tell the story herself?” Play your cards right, and readers will hang out to discover the reason. The POV character probably isn’t as flamboyant as the one he’s describing–who is actually the main character of the story being told. We don’t need to know as much about him as we do about the subject of his discussion, so we’re likely to be more interested in his credibility than, for instance, his physical description. Use a First- Person Narrator to Tell a Character About Another Character. Perhaps it’s a letter or perhaps it’s from a journal–whatever it’s from, it’s point is to tell someone what happened to someone else. Why your mother gave you up for adoption. Why your lover never came back from Iraq. Why I left your father. Why you have one green ear and one red one mixed in with your other two purple ones. But it isn’t always a sad tale. It can start with “Dear Alia, here’s what happened” and end with “just so you know” or “please believe/forgive me” or “the ball’s in your court” or “tag! You’re it!” The bookends frame the story and set the tone. The story itself can be anything. Did you notice that inherent in all these reasons to write in first- person is the question, “Who is your character talking to?” When you’re telling your reader a story from the horse’s mouth, your character is talking to the reader. When the narrator is telling a story about another character, he’s going to be addressing either the readers or another character. Why you choose to write in first- person will inform who your character is talking to. If you can figure this out before you sit down to write, the process will become twice as easy. Tell me your opinion: Have you ever written a story with a first- person narrator? What made you choose that approach? Rafflecopter giveaway.
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