9/15/2008

American Filmmaker Takes on J-Horror

By Patricia Lamkin
Special to Asia

Jason Cuadrado loves horror film of the Asian persuasion, especially the genre known as “J-Horror” (Japanese horror). So he decided to write his own J-Horror script, and as the ultimate homage, shoot the entire film in Japanese. The fact that he isn’t Japanese, or can’t speak a word of the language didn’t stop him.

Tales From the Dead: You Just Crossed Into the J-Zone


by Patricia Lamkin
Special to Asia

Jason Cuadrado may call his first film, Tales From the Dead, a J-Horror homage, but it gives a big nod to his other fascination, The Twilight Zone. “It was so great!” Cuadrado said. “Bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people. J-Horror works with the same themes, so they seem like a natural match.”