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J-horror

noun

Etymology

From J- (“Japanese”) + horror.

  1. derived from horror
  2. derived from horror
  3. inherited from horer
  4. prefixed as j-horror — “J- + horror”

Definitions

  1. Japanese horror fiction in film, video games, and other popular culture, typically marked…

    Japanese horror fiction in film, video games, and other popular culture, typically marked by psychological tension and supernatural elements.

    • While everyone into J-Horror is gushing over the zombie mayhem that is Junk, I think Wild Zero is a far better movie.
    • I've given myself the task of tying modern feminism in Japan to the trend in the new wave of J-horror flicks . . . I'd love to be able to include MEMENTO MORI in the discussion, but . . . so I'm holding off ordering a copy.
    • Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.

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