GROSS AND GROSSER.(The Talk of the Town)(Grady Hendrix helped found the New York Asian Film Festival, in order to screen the latest 'J-horror' films, among others, at Anthology Film Archives, in East Greenwich Village)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 28-JUN-04

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Fans of Japanese horror films appear to be related to those mysterious people who like to get out of their cars to inspect roadkill, or those who watch bypass surgery on public television--except that they are devotees of a much darker and weirder phenomenon. Grady Hendrix, a thirty-one-year-old former receptionist of conservative appearance, for example, doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would enjoy watching a man bite through his arm while masturbating inside a burlap sack, but he is. Hendrix, who lives in Spanish Harlem, imports the most repellent, vile movies from Asia as a hobby, and the depth of his demented knowledge is impressive. If you wanted to see, say, a naked man suspended from hooks so that his...

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