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Horrific Bento Boxes

Bento boxes are originally lunch boxes for Asian children. Each box has several compartments, wherein the parent places several small portions of food, rather than one large single selection (the way most Americans eat.) But what makes the Bento box even more unique is that the food presented is shaped or created to look like favorite icons, cartoons, or whatever else the child enjoys.

For the horror afficianado, these Bento boxes contain food shaped like decaptiated faces.

Monday Movie Review - GROTESQUE

From France I went to Japan, and a movie I've read a lot about but just now got around to watching. GROTESQUE is a torture film, pure and unadulterated.  The movie is so graphic, it's banned in Britain.

It's the story of a young man and woman going out on their very first date.  Except they're interrupted on their way back from the restaurant by a maniac (with surgical skills) who kidnaps them and keeps them locked up some place that's unspecific.

Before he starts torturing them, he explains that if they manage to "excite" him, he will let them go free.  Please note that the torture itself is a conglomerate of sexual and physical violence, including dismemberment, etc.  This movie is not for the squeamish.  The gore is believable, and the very cold attitude from the "doctor" will send chills down your spine.

Again, this movie managed to surprise me in both the way the plot develops and how it ends.  Which is why my recommendation is that you

Fairy Tales by Miwa Yanagi

Japanese photographer Miwa Yanagi has come up with some fantastic photos in tribute to her love of American and Japanese fairy tales.  Check out her site here for more (including the "Windswept Women".)

For those of you who don't know, the orignal story of Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm told of the wolf eating both Red and her grandmother.  It was Red's screams that brought the woodcutter to the grandmother's house to investigate.  Upon seeing the wolf lying sleepily on the floor as it tried to digest its meal, the woodcutter chopped off its head, then split open the animal's belly, to reveal Red and her grandmother still alive inside.

As If Going to the Bathroom Isn't Scary Enough...

Check this out.

Now you can read your horror and wipe yourself afterwards with it.