No. 1 Cronengirly

If there's one thing that really shocks me, it's that the 2020s has become the decade that revived hagsploitation cinema. It's such a bizarre thing to see a resurgence of in this decade.

Apparently in the book Sadako is actually described as "a little tall," which is a new thing for me to be mad about whenever I see art of her that's so clearly just Samara from the American version but with a different name. THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS. THE AMERICAN VERSION IS NOT A FAITHFUL ADAPTATION. FUCK YOU.

So, I'm currently reading Ring by Koji Suzuki. I've already watched most of the films so I have a pretty good idea of how Sadako's curse functions, but one thing I don't recall is what happens if you try to pass it to someone who's already been cursed. Can you get re-cursed? Can two people keep passing the tape back and forth to prolong their deadlines indefinitely? Or do you become immune after passing it on?

NGL, watching the other works of Koji Shiraishi, especially Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi, made me understand and appreciate Sadako vs Kayako so much more

I love when I stumble on to a new obsession completely by accident. I was watching Koji Shiraishi's Noroi: The Curse the other day and, as I tend to do, I decided to search the Tumblr tags for the movie looking for any nice screengrabs, fan art or analysis. Then I found out that Noroi is just one film in an entire SHARED UNIVERSE of cosmic horror Japanese mockumentary films?? So I watched Occult (2009) after Noroi then started watching Shiraishi's Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi series, which is available in its entirety on YouTube with English subs. I'm currently five films into SKFK and I am OBSESSED, I need more people to get into this film franchise. It's nuts and all the movies seem to connect somehow. If you're a fan of J horror, ghost hunting or lovecraftian horror, I highly recommend checking these out. SKFK is best treated like a show imo, each film feels more like an episode and they all bleed into each other in some way.