JAPANESE HORROR 👻 Now playing on the Criterion Channel! https://bit.ly/4eqdWx8 Around the turn of the twenty-first century, a new wave of Japanese terror dubbed J-horror took international audiences by storm. While Hollywood horror films tend to rely on jump scares and explicit gore to generate fear, their Japanese counterparts often emphasize creeping mood and tension in ways that highlight the unknown and unseen and create a sense of lingering dread. From earlier precursors like Kaneto Shindo