Welcome to the film review pages of Paghat the Ratgirl. A huge percentage of these reviews are of horror films & Japanese cinema & Asian films generally, but actually I like all sorts of movies & coverage is broad.
There is solid coverage of silent films inclusive of the primitive silent era of Edison & Melies; swashbucklers & historicals & jungle films & similar actiony genres; crime & especially film noir; classic (& vintage schlock) Hollywood & independent dramas, comedies, musicals, westerns documentaries/mocumentaries, & many terribly unusual films of the avant garde, short subjects, animation...
Some unusual areas of coverage are the finest on the web, including hundreds of reviews of soundies, of black cast "race films," of Betty Boop, of samurai films -- so much coverage that any one of these topics could've been spun out as a separate website with scores or hundreds of pages.
Though by the films reviewed it's obvious I do like artful cinema, I am very seriously enamored of sundry areas of trash/cult/exploitation cinema. I'm especially fond of horror whether brilliant works of genius or laughable junk. So areas of horror & psycho killers, ghosts & science fiction & fantasy, add up to substantial coverage, tackled with stronger international attention than most horror review sites strive toward.
I'm especially proud of the extensive & constantly expanding selection of Asian film reviews which include a great many things rarely or never discussed in English resources in any format, & certainly discussed nowhere else on the web. So while film websites are a dime a dozen, quite a bit that will be found here is uniquely informative in areas of samurai, yakuza, wuxia, kung fu, j-horror, & Asian horror films generally.
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