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J-Horror's Cursed Inheritance

A run through Japan's haunted-object tradition, from the ghost tales of the 1960s (Kuroneko, Jigoku) to the videotapes, websites, houses and subway loops that came after; watched together, they show how the dread keeps moving from one medium to the next.

Mostly cult favourites that a wide audience can enjoy, with The Ring and Ju-on as the familiar way in, Noroi and Uzumaki as the underseen cult objects, and the 1960s films for viewers who want to see where it all started; for the most part they rely on dread rather than gore.