Modern Japanese Horror

[Dave Monroe]

"In the last five years, a new generation of Japanese
film monsters have stepped up to the big screen. But
this new horror is a far cry from such post-war
mutants as Godzilla and Mothra. In her essay, 'The
Imagination of Disaster,' Susan Sontag explained the
existence of these original Cold-War creatures as
projections of a generalized cultural anxiety over the
possibility of nuclear war. Remember that Godzilla was
a prehistoric relic awakened from his underwater lair
by nuclear testing. The evil in these new films,
however, comes neither from the far reaches of outer
space nor from the watery depths. Rather these
monsters are men themselves, and the evil emerges from
the unknowable regions of the human heart."

http://www.sundancechannel.com/feature/?sContent=May2002


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