In Grudge – titled Kin in its original Turkish – an upstanding police officer sees his life begin to fall apart when he becomes the target of a vengeful conspiracy he never saw coming. Set in Istanbul ...

In January of 2005, I was a 12-year-old in my first year of junior high. After a period of adjustment, I finally made a friend, Ivan, who I’m very lucky to still have in my life. Ivan and I bonded ...

It was the late-1990s when Hideo Nakata’s pioneering masterpiece Ringu sparked a global interest in Japanese horror. In the immediate years that followed, movies like Pulse, Dark Water, and One Missed ...

In its quest to appropriate global filmmaking trends, Hollywood has honed in on a series of Japanese cult horror pics most notable for bad acting and pedestrian direction. First came DreamWorks' ...

The curse never dies, and with "The Grudge 2" scaring up a solid $22 million in its opening frame, expect theaters to be visited by still more nonsensical installments in this intermittently scary ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...