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Ok, so it isn't Halloween anymore, but following on from the Eyeonanime top ten horror, what titles do you think were cruelly overlooked, placed in an Iron Maiden and left to rot...

I managed to pull out ten alternates that may spook and freak out. And not one of them is Urotusukidoji.

10. Shikabane Hime
I'm reaching here, but I've caught a couple episodes of this new series on the Funimation website, and it certainly promises spooky with its story of a corpse princess that has to hunt down and 'kill' the undead to be allowed into heaven. There's plenty of freaky and weird here.

9. Moon Phase
It's too cute to be scary you may say, and it certainly is replete with the daft moments and comic relief. But the animation is brilliant, the camera angles, the filming style and the lighting all deliver on the gothic and chilling front, the use of shadow and darkness is right out of a classic Universal horror, so it really looks the part.

8. Tokko
Blood, spatter, demons, swearing, Manga Entertainment. Nuff said.

7. Strait Jacket
Ditto, but with a decent story and interesting characters. This new OVA from Manga offers an alternate world where magic replaces technology, and too much magic turns humans into demons. Looks awesome too.

6. Witch Hunter Robin
More magic (telekinesis) here, but like Moon Phase it's one where the look of the show sells spooky much more than the content. It looks and sounds edgy and makes you feel uneasy, even if the story doesn't.

5. Tsukihime Lunar Legend
The show where the full moon lasts for weeks. It's a modern take on the vampire myth, which has a love story at its heart. Manages to maintain a hint of ominous tragedy throughout.

4. Texhnolyze
Speaking of ominous, this is another of those shows that look and sound terrifying. It's a dystopian vision of an underground future that signifies the worst in humanity, and it gets worse from there. It's slow, it's ponderous, and it builds to a soul destroying conclusion. That's my definition of torture, but in a good way.

3. Paranoia Agent
A childlike vengeful spirit, wearing in line roller skates, a baseball cap and carrying a bent bat, striking down people at random who may be feeling stressed out, and who just vanishes into the ether. Pretty spooky...

2. Mushi-shi
This ode to humanity's relationship with nature may not seem the obvious frightfest, but it encapsulates the eerieness of j-Horror ideally, an anthology of stories that present the astounding, and lead in wholly unexpected directions.

1. Le Portrait De Petite Cossette
You know, the ideal horror is style over substance, you don't want a deep story, you just want the scares, and Petite Cossette's tale of a vengeful girl whose spirit awakens from a wine glass is perfectly gothic and chilling to the core.
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Damo · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

Hmmm, even I'm game for this, sadly later than planned we'll be talking about horror in the standard episode 4 podcast too, it's interesting as horror is determind by different things, what one finds scary or "horrifying" someone else doesn't.

I don't find Elfen Lied scary or horrifying, Gilgamesh is far more effective.
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Toraman · Shinigami Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2099 Location: London

I aimed for the more grisly titles Twisted Evil

, but Paranoia Agent is definitely a winner in the psychological/horror respect. Guess it just lost out to Perfect Blue...

Saucepan · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:

Damo · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

10 Perfect Blue
9 Boogiepop Phantom
8 Hell Girl
7 Blood: The Last Vampire
6 Gilgamesh
5 Serial Experimetns Lain
4 Elfen Lied
3 Hellsing Ultimate
2 Blue Gender
1 Malice@Doll

my horror top ten befroe the horror countdown, the way the article works is each person taking part compiled one of these scoring them the eurovision way around so Perfect Blue is my favorite horror.
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