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Nippon Horrors: Horrors of Malformed Men (Teruo Ishii, 1969) 23 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm
Although it has achieved a certain level of cult notoriety in the West following its release on American DVD, Teruo Ishii’s ‘Horrors of Malformed Men’ remains largely unseen in its country of origin. ...
Deathblog Round-up: Some Summers They Drop Like Flies. 15 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Sadly, it has come to my attention that a number of people whose work has enriched the world we like to trample around in here at Breakfast In The Ruins have passed away in the past month or so. As is...
Nippon Horror Interlude: Yokai Smoke. 8 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
One of the best birthday presents I received this year was this set of authentic ‘Yokai Smoke’s. Apparently still available from shabbier newsagents and sweet shops in Tokyo, and featuring wonderfull...
Nippon Horrors: The Woman From The Sea (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1959) 3 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
--- VIEWING NOTE: At present I do not own a copy of this film, and the review below is written on the basis of a screening that I attended as part of the BFI’s Nikkatsu centennial season in June. As ...
Nippon Horrors: Fear of the Ghost-House:Bloodthirsty Doll (Michio Yamamoto, 1970) 28 Jul 2013 | 03:41 am
Despite being home to one of the most productive popular film industries in the world during the ‘60s and ‘70s, Japan is usually perceived as having played only a marginal role in the explosion of ho...
The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt, 1925) 21 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
It may not be readily apparent based on my writings thus far on this weblog, but over the past few years I’ve developed an inexplicable fondness for what I suppose you might call ‘lost world / explore...
Pelican Time: The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney (1970) 15 Jul 2013 | 05:28 pm
(Gustave Doré) (Illustrated London News, 1852) (George Cruickshank) (‘Preparing for an execution at Newgate, 1848’. Mansell Collection.) (‘A Spree in a Railway Carriage’, about 1850. Mansell Colle...
Pelican Time: Witchcraft by Geoffrey Parrinder (1958) 12 Jul 2013 | 04:07 pm
As one might expect given the sober academicism to which Pelican aspired and generally succeeded, Geoffrey Parrinder’s study of witchcraft is probably the calmest and least sensational book I’ve ever ...
Pelican Time: The Cinema as Artby Ralph Stephenson & J.R. Debrix (1965) 8 Jul 2013 | 10:51 pm
(Cover design by Germano Facetti.) Though it never really ventures far beyond the established canon of ‘classic cinema’ (a canon that admittedly must have seemed a bit fresher in 1965 than it does to...
Pelican Time: Fishlore by A.F. Magri MacMahon (1946) 5 Jul 2013 | 09:50 pm
To be honest, I was kind of hoping this volume would focus more on the cultural, folkloric or mystical lore of fish rather than the more prosaic business of biology, identification, catching and cooki...
