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Top 150 Asian Horror/Thriller Movies

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Quiet Dread; Spectral Ambience

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It's a certain ineffable feeling. Something like the cinematic equivalent of an Edith Wharton ghost story or a Ramsey Campbell novel.Recommendations are very welcome. (Yes, I'm already familiar with Robert Eggers / Ari Aster / etc.)

Gothic Cinema & Literature (Personal Canon)

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Chronological. Subject to constant change. Read my related articles:<a href="https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/article-abstract/1/2/257/404821/Gothic-Phenomena-and-Weird-Noumena-On-Writing-Dark" rel="nofollow">Gothic Phenomena and Weird Noumena: On Writing Dark Numinous Fiction</a><a href="https://inreviewonline.com/2025/06/19/the-pasteboard-masks-of-text-and-screen-on-writers-in-gothic-cinema/" rel="nofollow">The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema</a><a href="https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/plumbing-the-depths-haunted-writers-and-haunted-writings/" rel="nofollow">Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Haunted Writings</a>Essential Gothic Literature Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart Pat Barker, Another World Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil William Beckford, Vathek Algernon Blackwood, The Empty House and Other Stories; The Listener and Other Stories Robert Bloch, Psycho; Psycho II; American Gothic; Lori Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes; Long After Midnight Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; Edgar Huntly Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling Ramsey Campbell, The Nameless; Ancient Images Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White; The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins Barbara Comyns, The Vet’s Daughter Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol J. M. Dillard, Specters Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca; The Birds and Other Stories; Don't Look Now Tananarive Due, The Between Robert Dunbar, The Pines Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho; Lunar Park; The Shards William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; Sanctuary; Light in August Timothy Findley, The Last of the Crazy People Carlos Fuentes, Aura Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales; The House of the Seven Gables Anne Hébert, Children of the Black Sabbath James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Joris-Karl Huysmans, The Damned Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories; The Road Through the Wall; Hangsaman; The Bird’s Nest; The Sundial; The Haunting of Hill House;We Have Always Lived in the Castle Henry James, Ghost Stories of Henry James M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree Stephen King, Carrie; ’Salem’s Lot; The Shining; The Dead Zone; Pet Sematary; It; The Dark Half; Dolores Claiborne; Lisey’s Story; Revival Gwendolyn Kiste, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe Kathe Koja, The Cipher; Strange Angels; Kink; Catherine the Ghost Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby; The Stepford Wives Matthew Lewis, The Monk Robert Marasco, Burnt Offerings Richard Marsh, The Beetle Richard Matheson, I Am Legend; A Stir of Echoes; Hell House Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer Cormac McCarthy, Child of God Michael McDowell, The Elementals Maryse Meijer, The Seventh Mansion Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; Benito Cereno S. P. Miskowski, The Worst Is Yet to Come Toni Morrison, Beloved Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories; The Violent Bear It Away; Wise Blood Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People; Zombie; Beasts; The Accursed; Daddy Love; Jack of Spades Joyce Carol Oates [as Rosamond Smith], Snake Eyes; Soul/Mate; You Can't Catch Me; The Barrens Oliver Onions, Widdershins Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire Eden Robinson, Traplines; Monkey Beach Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet R. R. Ryan, The Subjugated Beast William Shakespeare, Hamlet; Macbeth Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Bram Stoker, Dracula Peter Straub, Julia; If You Could See Me Now; Ghost Story; Floating Dragon; The General's Wife; Koko; Mrs. God; Houses Without Doors; Mr. X; lost boy lost girl; Wreckage Donna Tartt, The Secret History Melanie Tem, Prodigal Emma Tennant, The Bad Sister Thomas Tessier, The Nightwalker; Fog Heart Jim Thompson, Heed the Thunder Thomas Tryon, The Other Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto Edith Wharton, Ghosts Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray T. M. Wright, Strange Seed"The romance-writers’ obsessive return to the scene of aristocratic crime on the one hand, and urgent repetitions of the restitution of social hierarchies on the other, could not be free of revolutionary resonances. This is not to say that the popular terror fictions of the time are coherent polemics. But they undeniably form part of a general socio-cultural problematic regarding Gothic manners and institutions, with pressing contemporary relevance." — E. J. Clery & Robert Miles, Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820"Indeed, what informs or sustains Gothic can be seen as a strange and compelling phenomenon, the ‘reality’ of which cannot be seized (unless one practises what Keats means by ‘negative capability’). What I mean to say is that Gothic, as such, is an emergence that, if deemed ‘uncanny,’ is so because the ‘reality’ it draws to us is already ineffable and remains so. To use Harman’s object-oriented terms, one could say that ‘Gothic’ is ‘always withdrawn or veiled rather than directly accessible, and therefore any attempt to grasp that reality by direct and literal language will inevitably misfire’.” In this regard, we can infer the ontology of that which informed the Romantics’ claim that the so-called ‘objective’ world is imbued with Mind, but also, and perhaps more significantly, we can infer that the nature of the world or such Mind may well be more-than-human. This is to say that Gothic is anathema to the mind/matter divide and, as a genre, is more than just a ‘spooky atmospheric story’. Gothic relentlessly draws attention to an ontological error—a fault line, perhaps—in the perception that ‘matter’ is inert or inanimate, and draws attention instead to the sense that physical ‘objects’ are just one kind of object among many others. Finally, alchemy and animism as emergent objects infuse Gothic metaphysics.""In the mid-eighteenth century, following Descartes and, let’s say, anticipating the Freud-Jung dyad, ‘Gothic’ emerges through/in/as literature and art to herald a foreign body within metaphysical dualism, in that, as a mode, Gothic was to raise the question of ontology and epistemology regarding mental states—dreams and even madness, for example—and to suggest a somewhat interred connection between these and manifestations of the spiritual essence amid empirical life." — Jodey Castricano, Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene"Terror and horror are so far opposite, that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes, and nearly annihilates them. I apprehend, that neither Shakespeare nor Milton by their fictions, nor Mr. Burke by his reasoning, anywhere looked to positive horror as a source of the sublime, though they all agree that terror is a very high one; and where lies the great difference between horror and terror, but in the uncertainty and obscurity, that accompany the first, respecting the dreaded evil?" — Ann Radcliffe, "On the Supernatural in Poetry""The Gothic is supremely the genre of the Fall. Who were the Goths, after all, but the tribe who brought down the glory of Rome? The word ‘Gothic’ in its usual eighteenth-century sense conveyed disapproval, since medieval taste in life and art was considered to be as barbarous and uncivilized as the Goths and Vandals. Walpole and his followers deliberately reversed that meaning, but even in their favorable light, ‘Gothic’ was still linked with darkness, mystery, and ignorance, was backward-looking and pessimistic rather than optimistic about the human condition." — Faye Ringel, New England’s Gothic Literature"Gothic describes a discursive strategy which produces monsters as a kind of temporary but influential response to social, political, and sexual problems. And yet, Gothic, as I have noted, always goes both ways. So, even as Gothic style creates the monster, it calls attention to the plasticity or constructed nature of the monster and, therefore, calls into question all scientific and rational attempts to classify and quantify agents of disorder. Such agents, Gothic literature makes clear, are invented not discovered by science." — J. Jack Halberstam, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters"While certain devices and plots, what might be called the stapes of the Gothic, are clearly identifiable in early Gothic texts, the tradition draws on medieval romances, supernatural, Faustian and fairy tales, Renaissance drama, sentimental, picaresque and confessional narratives as well as the ruins, tombs and nocturnal speculations that fascinated Graveyard poets.Apart from the period in which the key Gothic texts were produced, a period extending from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), it is impossible to define a fixed set of conventions. Even these dates seem arbitrary, straddling as they do the eras dominated by neoclassical and Romantic writing. Gothic forms, moreover, are not only shaped by literatures of the past: the styles prevailing in the respective presents in which they were produced also provide their specific shape." — Fred Botting, Gothic"The horrors that we all do believe in are of the sort that Dostoyevsky and Albee and Macdonald write about: hate, alienation, growing lovelessly old, tottering out into a hostile world on the unsteady legs of adolescence. We are, in our real everyday worlds, often like the masks of Comedy and Tragedy, grinning on the outside, grimacing on the inside. That’s a central switching point somewhere inside, a transformer, maybe, where the wires leading from the masks connect. And that is the place where the horror story so often hits home.The horror-story writer is not so different from the Welsh sin-eater, who was supposed to take upon himself the sins of the dear departed by partaking of the dear departed’s food. The tale of monstrosity and terror is a basket loosely packed with phobias; when the writer passes by, you take one of his imaginary horrors out of the basket and put one of your real ones in—at least for a time." — Stephen King, Night Shift (Foreword)"From the start in Walpole, consequently, the gothic found the essence of humanity in the mind." — Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text

Gothic Cinema & Literature (Personal Canon)

criterion closet? i only know juandibidi.

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keyword search: from:*username* *film title*(try either the original title or the english title; some titles are part of director filmography collections, you may also have the director's name as keywords)direct links are not provided in the notes to avoid detection and s*sp*nsion of juan’s acc.tv series: - penance - ren faire - sai - sleep with me (2022) - star wars: andor - station eleven

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Kinema Junpo - Best Japanese Films (1926-2024) [Imported]

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> The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. > > Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world. In 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that TIFF "is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity". In 2007, TIME noted that TIFF had "grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period". This is partially the result of TIFF's ability and reputation for generating "Oscar buzz". > > The festival's People's Choice Award—which is based on audience balloting—has emerged as an indicator of awards-season success. Past recipients of this audience accolade include Room, The Imitation Game, 12 Years a Slave, The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, Silver Linings Playbook, and La La Land. > > The following is a complete list of all feature-length films shown at the Toronto International Film Festival since 1976. Notes indicate the year the film was shown and if it was awarded a prize. Imported from https://letterboxd.com/selasor/list/kinema-junpo-best-japanese-films-1926-2024/. List originally assembled by 'selasor'.

Kinema Junpo - Best Japanese Films (1926-2024) [Imported]

Japanese Cinema

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List of every Japanese film I've watched<a href="https://boxd.it/7Cvum" rel="nofollow">Asian Cinema</a> <a href="https://boxd.it/3Sajy" rel="nofollow">South Korean Cinema</a> <a href="https://boxd.it/bdz1O" rel="nofollow">Chinese Language Films</a> <a href="https://boxd.it/58r1i" rel="nofollow">East Asian Films</a> <a href="https://boxd.it/cKHAM" rel="nofollow">Thai Cinema</a>

what is reality?

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meditations, ruminations, and explorations on the nature of reality and existence. includes experimentation with form and manipulation of perceived reality.comprised of projects i’ve watched and watchlist entries. organized by color.ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

What Is Reality

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Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2024)

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Updated November 24, 2025Best films often included on Kinema Junpo's Best Ten lists. Some years include many more popular films from a given year.For a list of just the "Best Ten" entries see:“<a href="http://letterboxd.com/eiganerd/list/true-kinema-junpos-best-ten-japanese-films" rel="nofollow">True Kinema Junpo Best 10 List</a>”

Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2024)

Japanese Horror

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Japanese horror films that I like - Crow's Blood - <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5788812/" rel="nofollow">www.imdb.com/title/tt5788812/</a>

Mes films

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Acervo Pompoarismo

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filmes postados no perfil Pompoarismo @prostatajogos e Pompoarismo II @Pompoarismo02 no twitterlink nas notas

my j-horror iceberg movie list

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If you want an English guide for the list, there's a YouTuber currently working on a comprehensive walkthrough of it. As of July 24th, ALL tiers have been completed. There is also someone covering the list in Spanish, but they have only covered the first **TWO** tiers so far.Link to English iceberg videos: Tier 1 + 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5h-goANgE&t=633s&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5h-goANgE&t=633s&ab_channel=Grief</a> (uploaded circa 23/05/22)Tier 3 part 1: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZgx1qujFU&t=2s&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZgx1qujFU&t=2s&ab_channel=Grief</a> (uploaded circa 29/05/22)Tier 3 part 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOsWTNFQsAU&t=6s&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOsWTNFQsAU&t=6s&ab_channel=Grief</a> (uploaded circa 05/06/22)Tier 4: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c11aYC0R75w&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=c11aYC0R75w&ab_channel=Grief</a> (uploaded 18/06/22)Tier 5: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDB-w4t6Qg&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDB-w4t6Qg&ab_channel=Grief</a> (uploaded 25/06/22)Tier 6: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O70G1yAwNN8&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=O70G1yAwNN8&ab_channel=Grief</a> (uploaded 03/7/22) Tier 7 + 8: <a href="https://youtu.be/q1mLFqNBMLM" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/q1mLFqNBMLM</a> (uploaded 16/7/22)Tier 9 + 10: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCdTRcibnc&t=13s&ab_channel=Grief" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCdTRcibnc&t=13s&ab_channel=Grief</a>**Link to Spanish iceberg video(s):**Tier 1 + 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcITQeATAL4&t=42s&ab_channel=Shikkoku" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcITQeATAL4&t=42s&ab_channel=Shikkoku</a> (uploaded 13/7/22)**MISTAKES IN THE LIST**While creating this list, I excluded some titles which I should've included. Most of these were forgotten because I make a mistake in the third tier, redid it and thought I'd already added them. These titles include: Demons (1971) One Missed Call (2003) One Cut of the Dead (2017) Belladonna of Sadness (1973) Violated Angels (1967).Were I to re-do the iceberg, I would've probably chosen some different films and included some more films in the lower tiers as well.

No Plot Just Vibes (complimentary)

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Movies where the plot is either minimalist or does not follow a traditional Hollywood story instead delving into surrealism, slice of life character study etc. Either way the focus is more on the visuals, music and overall atmosphere than a traditional Hollywood narrative.

Top 100

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