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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

bring on the creepy girls

Hollywood loves to remake Asian horror movies - and ruin them in the process. Joe Queenan on how terror gets lost in translation
Good broad piece on the Asian horror remake trend written at the Guardian
Posted by Colin at 3:44 PM

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