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A screaming man is flayed alive, and his gruesome, steaming innards are exposed for all to see.
A womans torso is grotesquely torn from her head.
A terrified couple is boiled inside a giant flaming cauldron.
A shrieking baby floats down a river of blood.
Vengeful spirits would come practically to define more recent J-horror hits likeThe Ring,Pulse, andThe Grudge.
The characters rage is borne partly out of their desolation of the sense that theyve been left behind.
The shadow ofGodzillanaturally looms large among the major titles of this period.
But in its original form,Godzillais one of the saddest, most bluntly brutal monster movies ever made.
The legacy of the war, of American occupation and the atom bomb,hangs over the whole film.
The devastation that Godzilla causes is extensive and heartbreaking, recalling the horrific aftermath of Hiroshima.
Honda also used the 1945 American firebombing of Tokyo as a visual source for these sequences.
Inside the plane, the paranoid passengers turn on each other.
The film is filled with documentary montages of warfare and political turmoil.
Our objective is to exterminate the human race.
The Japanese version of horror developed somewhat differently.
These genre films made in the postwar period werent just there to shock.
