Danger After Dark series: Thrillers around the world

Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2007 by Tirdad Derakhshani Inquirer Staff Writer

Forget about those impossibly demure, yet secretly lustful Asian schoolgirls in white knee-highs, eyes covered by long lush hair. You know, those innocent girls who turn out to be vengeful, sadistic ghosts.

That J-horror cliché, now firmly established as a tiresome Tinseltown trope, receives its death blow in the Philadelphia Film Festival's Danger After Dark series.

The murderer? That'd be the three directors of   Unholy Women,  a Japanese anthology that plays around with that stereotype. And how!

In one tale, a guy begins dating his boss' daughter. Trouble is, from the waist up, she's completely covered by (or actually is nothing, but) a burlap sack. (Ever kissed burlap?)

It's possible the girl is a...