Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s unnerving, virtuosic horror movie is amazingly attuned to ambience and emotional textures

panese art-horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns to the genre with “Creepy,” a slow-burning mystery that gets darker by the minute, before reaching a lurid, queasy finale.

One can sense the hand of a genre master on every frame of Creepy.

A Japanese crime thriller/horror, a chess documentary, a sentimental tale starring Emilia Fox, and a look at the incredible career of Usain Bolt

Love thy neighbor...well, maybe not this neighbor.

One has to appreciate Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s winking self-awareness in calling his new feature Creepy. It’s as if the Coen brothers released a film entitled Snarky, or Eli Roth named his next stomach-churner Gory. Kurosawa, who’s still best known for Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), two rare outstanding examples of the highly variable J-Horror genre, instills

Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Japan, 2016, 130 mins

Like ‘Psycho’ and ‘Snakes on a Plane’, this Japanese horror movie does what it says on the tin. After a misguided leap into supernatural romance with 2015’s ‘Jo