{"id":731,"date":"2003-08-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/14\/ask-john-are-there-any-anime-adaptations-of-american-horror-movies\/"},"modified":"2003-08-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-14T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-are-there-any-anime-adaptations-of-american-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-are-there-any-anime-adaptations-of-american-horror-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Are There Any Anime Adaptations of American Horror Movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was wondering if there is any anime based on American horror movies such as &#8220;Friday the 13th&#8221; or &#8220;Texas Chainsaw Massacre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not aware of any anime directly based on American horror films, but there are parodies and references to Western horror movies scattered throughout anime. Koichi Ohata&#8217;s Cybernetics Guardian Saigard is a gothic horror starring a main character named John Stoker, probably not a coincidental similarity to the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor has a crew member named Jason who wears a hockey mask and carries a chainsaw. The obscure 1987 OAV Lily C.A.T. is a shameless rip-off of Ridley Scott&#8217;s 1979 classic Alien. Excel Saga also parodies Alien(s). There are parodies of slashers stalking remote cabins in the woods in both Di-Gi-Charat and Miami Guns. And I&#8217;ve always believed that the opening shot in SoulTaker, of a freshly stabbed Kyosuke hanging upside down, is a direct homage to the opening of Dario Argento&#8217;s classic Italian horror film Susperia.<\/p>\n<p>Have I missed any? Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/animenation.net\/forums\/forumdisplay.php?forumid=32\" target=\"_blank\">AnimeNation Forum<\/a> to add your examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I was wondering if there is any anime based on American horror movies such as &#8220;Friday the 13th&#8221; or &#8220;Texas Chainsaw Massacre.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}