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Cold Fish (aka Tsumetai nettaigyo), a Japanese film directed by Sion Sono (Suicide Girls aka Jisatsu sâkuru) is now available on DVD and several VOD options. Cold Fish only showed in limited art house theaters since it was released unrated. Starting today you can grab Cold Fish on DVD, ITunes, VOD, Xbox, PS3, Amazon Instant, Vudu, Cinema Now and Zune. Starting September 23, 2011 you can see Cold Fish on TV VOD channels. Cold Fish stars Makoto Ashikawa (Ju-on 2), Denden (Ju-on) and Mitsuru Fukikoshi (Samurai Zombie). Cold Fish captures the macabre in a way that is both tounge-in-check and terrifying in its levity. I thought that Cold Fish was both brilliant and interesting. Horror freaks should>>...

Cold Fish (aka Tsumetai nettaigyo), a Japanese film directed by Sion Sono (Suicide Girls aka Jisatsu sâkuru), will begin playing in art house theaters on August 5, 2011. (See below for listing). The film will be available on DVD and iTunes August 23, 2011 and on VOD September 23, 2011 through November 22, 2011. Cold Fish stars Makoto Ashikawa (Ju-on 2), Denden (Ju-on) and Mitsuru Fukikoshi (Samurai Zombie). Cold Fish is not exactly horror, and not really a horror comedy, yet manages to capture the macabre in a way that is both tongue-in-cheek and terrifying in it’s levity. Cold Fish starts out as a bit of a farce, and seems to >>...

Cold Fish (aka Tsumetai nettaigyo), a Japanese film directed by Sion Sono (Suicide Girls aka Jisatsu sâkuru), will be making its way to the Us unrated. In the film Cold Fish mild-mannered Shamoto's teenage daughter gets caught shoplifting. A generous fellow fish-store owner and his wife appear to help resolve the situation by having her work at their fish store. The inspiration for Cold Fish came from real events known as the "Saitama serial murders of dog lovers". Cold Fish stars Makoto Ashikawa (Ju-on 2), Denden (Ju-on) and Mitsuru Fukikoshi (Samurai Zombie). Since Cold Fish will be presented unrated it have a limited art house release (see below for listing) >>...

You know, rarely do I get excited about sequels. I loved the Ju-on movies, but for whatever reason, even with creator Takashi Shimizu at the helm of the American remakes, they still felt kind of stale. With the upcoming release of Ghost House Pictures' The Grudge 3 from Sony, some interesting surprises have been popping up. The latest one? Gone is the PG-13 rating, and in its place the MPAA has granted this third U.S. entry an R rating, the first in the franchise's history.

The rating was earned "for violence, disturbing images, and some language"; and I can't say I'm surprised given that Splinter director Toby Wilkins is at the helm. This dude can do horror, and he's not shy about the onscreen action getting messy. Strap in, folks; we may finally be getting us a ghost story with some much needed bite!

Shawnee Smith, Matthew Knight, Beau Mirchoff,...

We mentioned quickly last night that Tokyo Gore Police director Yoshihiko Nishimura had mentioned that the next film from the crew behind Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl would be Drill Bra Sisters and we had the chance to ask Nishimura for a few more details today. The film is still being written so details are scarce but one of the lead characters is obviously carrying forward from The Machine Girl - which raises the possibility of further character cross overs - and Nishimura confirmed that it will be Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi calling the shots on this one as well. As for Nishimura? Well, he’s got something big on the horizons himself as well: he will be taking over the reins of the hugely popular Ju-On films - remade in the USA as The Grudge. The next installment of the long running franchise is being written now,...

By Alison Willmore

If "Bangkok Dangerous," with Nicolas Cage as a hitman in Bangkok moping over both his career choices and a girl, felt familiar -- well, that's probably because it's derivative of many a sad assassin movie that's come before. But it's also a remake, and not just your run-of-the-mill Hollywood retread of a foreign film. "Bangkok Dangerous" finds Hong Kong-born sibling directing team Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun remaking their own debut, a 1999 Thai-language film of the same name, and joining that growing club of directors who've headed to the U.S. to try an English take on their own movie. While the set-up makes sense -- subtitle-avoidant audiences here prefer a language and actors they're familiar with, and who knows the ins and outs of a project better than whoever helmed it the first time out? -- these remakes have a higher chance of stinkiness than the already dubious average redo.

Stephen Susco is in negotiations to adapt The Grudge for Senator International and Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Senator-based genre arm Ghost House Pictures. The project is the English-language remake of the Japanese horror hit Ju-On, produced by Taka Ichise and written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. Susco will adapt the work, which centers on a murderous supernatural curse spawned from a grudge held by a person who dies in the grip of powerful anger. The curse is then passed -- like a virus -- from victim to victim in a growing chain of horror across a quiet neighborhood. Raimi and Tapert are producing the redo along with Ichise. Shimizu is set to direct for Ghost House and Senator International. Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee and Doug Davison will executive produce with co-producer Shin Shimosawa. At Senator, the project is being overseen by Nathan Kahane. Susco is repped by Agency for the Performing Arts, Tavel Entertainment's Chris Ridenhour and attorney Alan Hergott. He previously sold the untitled Harvard heist script to Escape Artists and Dumbstruck to Universal Pictures.