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With the old yokai making it clear that they have no choice, it's time for Momo and Okarun to engage in a very high stakes game of tag - one they're determined to win... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Dec 18, 2024 - 1 comment

Turbo Granny might think she has the upper hand over Momo after she passes out, but she's about to find out that as powerful as the girl is, she pales in comparison to her grandmother Seiko, a medium of no small skill (or temper)... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Dec 17, 2024 - 2 comments

With Momo and Ken...er, Okarun still recovering from the crash of the Serponian ship, they decide to retreat to Momo's place to seek out the counsel of her grandmother - a spirit medium of no small skill - to figure out what to do with Turbo Granny. But she's not the only threat here, as a slip in letting their guard down soon illustrates - and her curse might just be able to be bent to their ends... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Oct 31, 2024 - 4 comments

Momo is a gyaru girl with a spirit medium grandmother, while Ken is a UFO otaku and loner. But when the two clash over whether spirits or aliens are real, the conflict leads to a set of dares to go to known hotspots for the activity they don't believe in - which leads to the two learning that reality is a lot weirder (and dangerous) than they could ever have known... (cw: sexual assault/attempted rape) [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Oct 19, 2024 - 5 comments

Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young--fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad--as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone--which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows...
posted by soelo on Sep 13, 2024 - 5 comments

Eleanor Vance, a timid single woman, is invited by Dr Montague to an investigation of Hill House, a house with a very dark history. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 31, 2023 - 12 comments

The first Adult Swim Canada animated show. Incredibly dumb cops investigate paranormal phenomena, supported by varyingly competent colleagues. Everyone talks fast -- kind of Archer cadence, but more blunt force idiocy than rapier wit. The animation style is a very odd semi-rotoscoped thing. Trailer here. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Sep 29, 2023 - 1 comment

A small town existing nowhere traps all those who cross its threshold. [more inside]
posted by porpoise on Apr 13, 2022 - 16 comments

Immersive, character-driven stories are rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable. Families, detectives and journalists hope viewers hold the clues to solving these mysteries. (IMDB, 2020)
posted by Countess Elena on Jul 3, 2020 - 7 comments

A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 17, 2018 - 3 comments

"HYPNOTIZED! Reincarnated as a Monster from Hell!" "IT CAN AND DID HAPPEN! Based on authentic FACTS you've been reading about!" Facts eh? In this movie, an evil hypnotist tells a lady to SLEEP!, causing her to summon an ancient lobster woman from the sea, who goes on a rampage. Because all prospective licensed hypnotists learn about calling crustacean people on the first day of class. This is exactly why you shouldn't get your news of current events from movie posters. It's the last episode on Observer world and the last we see of the other Observers (well they do turn up again once later). YouTube (1h31m) Premiered April 5, 1997. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jul 20, 2017 - 5 comments

Back at the Ozark Mountains UFO Conference, Ross and Carrie learn that owls can often be aliens in disguise! Delighted, they go looking for owls everywhere. Then, David Marler steps up to the microphone to tell us all about the Battle of Los Angeles, a 1942 event in which air raid wardens fired on an object in the sky that might have been a flying saucer... or might have been a lost weather balloon. But PROBABLY a flying saucer. Clap your hands, folks, it's more UFO time!
posted by eotvos on Jun 16, 2017 - 3 comments

For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name.
posted by Fizz on Aug 4, 2016 - 10 comments

Any interest is doing a Being human rewatch? [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jun 8, 2015 - 2 comments

A shaken Major Briggs recounts his otherworldly experiences. Cooper organizes a sting on Jean Renault, Ernie Niles sweats the minor details, Agent Bryson makes a couple of daring costume changes, and Windom Earle knocks another piece off the board. Meanwhile, James gets awfully careless with some probably really expensive champagne. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Oct 28, 2014 - 4 comments