Are you a horror movie junky? Have you braved some of the classic horror movies like The Exorcist, Scream, or Get Out and yet still hungry for more? Well The Cinematheque movie theatre in Vancouver will be hosting a terrifying Japanese horror film festival, just in time for the spookiest season. This genre of Japanese horror hasn’t earned the title of J-horror for nothing! Running from October 23 to October 31 this film festival will showcase five classic (and frightening) Japanese horror films rarely screened on this side of the world. So grab your theatre going buddies and lets watch some films!

Here is the list and a brief (vague) summary of the plots:

Ring (1998)- A cursed video tape and a reporter on the hunt to break the curse before she dies from it as well, this horror film is where the term J-horror was coined. 

 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)- A businessman is plagued by a curse that turns his flesh into iron after being run down by a “metal fetishist” (and yes it is exactly what it sounds like). 

Audition (1999)- Categorized as “disturbing” this film starts out with a widower trying to find love again and does so by auditioning woman, and ends with his torture as the woman he chooses can’t stand his love for anyone else. 

House (1977)- In this horror movie the house that six friends visit seems to come to life as weird events occur, from a severed head taking flight to an evil spirit embodied in a cat portrait. 

 Dark Water (2002)- A mother and daughter move into an apartment where creepy things begin to happen and they begin to think that it is something to do with the supernatural.

Tickets cost $12 per show and each show runs multiple times throughout this week, click here to find more details.