5/19/2023 0 Comments Nothing but blackened teeth plotThis being a horror story, supernatural shenanigans ensue, and the relationships are tested. Since then, people have buried other women alive in the mansion’s depths to appease the restless, uneasy spirit of this ghostly bride. The place has a gruesome history the matriarch of the house was buried alive after her husband left her at the altar. A group of five twenty-somethings all travel to Japan to hold a secret wedding ceremony in a Heian-era mansion. The premise is as old as the horror genre itself. It’s a large part of why I was excited for Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth, a horror novella that uses Japanese folklore to mixed effect. It’s what makes other Japanese horror stories like Corpse Party, Another, and anything by Junji Ito just so effective. It’s what makes the low-key nature of something like Noroi: The Curse just so effective the danger is a very real but also intangible threat, one that will consume you, given enough time. And for the most part, I quite enjoy that. In my experience, supernatural Japanese horror takes the form of a phenomenon, almost a force of nature that we haven’t seen or discovered before. Japanese horror is often unique in that it’s less about the literal danger and more about the fallout surrounding a given haunting.
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