Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Autumn 2021 Special

Tastes of Horror(ko)

A new concept horror IP cross project that turns six selected works out of 19 serial webtoons of the same name (Tastes of Horror) into movies. "DingDong Challenge: The reason why you shouldn't do dance challenge carelessly", "Four Legged Beast: Story of meeting a doppelganger with broken neck", "Jackpot: what happened when I took a taxi nearby", "The Residents-Only Gym: A woman who appears after 10 PM", "Rehabilitation: Cruel clinical trials currenly underway in the lab", and "Gluttony: The strange things that happened during a live broadcast."

Ura Horror(ja)

A found footage anthology horror film by Kôji Shiraishi.

Grindsploitation: Trailerama(en)

The final entry in the "Grindploitation" series of anthology horror films, featuring fake trailers presented by both established and fresh genre faces.

An Hour To Kill(en)

Two assassins-for-hire have an hour to kill (so to speak) before their next hit. To help pass the time, they entertain themselves by regaling horror stories to one another. With bizarre titles such as "Valkyrie's Bunker" "Assacre" and "Hog Hunters" - which hit-man's story will be deemed most disturbing when all is said and done?

The Dark Tapes(en)

A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.

Scarlet Fry's Horrorama(en)

Shot-on-video omnibus feature hosted by Scarlet Fry.

Something Dark(en)

4 deadly stories of madness and mayhem! Mr. March goes about his day to day travels as he encounters 4 strangers who tell their tails of terror. Little does he know what reality awaits.

Ju-on: The Grudge(ja)

When social worker Rika is sent to check on a traumatized old lady whose family have moved in at the site of the notorious Saeki family murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that is transmitted via its victims further and further from its original source.

Juhou Special(ja)

Kitagawa Reika, a news anchor at News Fact, keeps seeing strange visuals. One night, she loses consciousness, and when she wakes up, she finds herself tied to the bed at a hospital. The doctor won’t let her leave, and she is chased by a mysterious little girl. She has to escape and find out the truth behind this mystery.

Dark Water(ja)

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Exhumed(en)

Three stories across the centuries of individuals given the power to raise the dead, set in feudal Japan, 1940s USA, and a post-apocalyptic future.

Do Not Disturb(en)

Five directors tackle five short stories playfully tied together in one dark, twisted, humorous film about what goes on behind the door of room 316.

Give Me An A(en)

Created by an all female filmmaking team, this 17-segment series focuses on the visceral gut reactions of each filmmaker to expand conversations about women’s reproductive rights and the importance of bodily autonomy and also addresses the issues of a democracy that does not protect the needs of the majority of the population.

School Ghost Story G(ja)

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series.

The Dark Dealer(en)

A trio of desperate men are forced to participate in a nightmarish game of blackjack for their souls. The circumstances behind how these fellows wound up in purgatory are revealed in three individual segments: Two vicious hoodlums break into the basement dwelling of an old hermit who isn't nearly as harmless as he appears to be; an unscrupulous entertainment lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he decides to steal several songs from a deceased blues singer; and a young ex-con agrees to help a scuzzy drug dealer rob a pharmaceutical lab in order to save his girlfriend from the clutches of said dope pusher.

True Accident Property Part 2 / Annihilation(ja)

Kinds of Kindness(en)

A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

Horror Noire(en)

An anthology film presenting six short horror stories from black writers and directors, featuring racist vampires, supernatural creatures, and Satan his damn self.

Sinister Visions(en)

Horror anthology featuring nerve shattering short horror stories, that will make your bones freeze.

Onibaba(ja)

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.