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In an odd turn of events, this list has a number of films that don’t have English-language titles. They just go by whatever the original title was. Good for us. What we do see in this portion of the list is a few movies that weren’t really created specifically to be horror films, but their themes and visuals made it so. In addition, we have some heavyweights of non-horror cinema creating horror films that push the genre all the more upward. “Thinking man horror,” if you will.

20. Le locataire (1976)

English Language Title: The Tenant

Directed by: Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski has made one of the greatest horror “trilogies” of all time with 1965′s British production Repulsion, 1968′s American production Rosemary’s Baby, and 1976′s French production The Tenant, completing his “Apartment Trilogy.” Unlike the other two, Polanski actually stars in The Tenant as Trelkovsky, a reserved man renting an apartment in Paris.

Well, can’t say we didn’t give you an early heads up to keep an eye out for this one, but as the movies not out until 2014, we will have a wait to go yet for more info. Japanese director Mari Asato - who has a fair few horror flicks under her belt including ‘Ju-on: Black Ghost,’ I’m Sorry’ and ‘X-Game,’ to name but a few - is working on a new scare flick titled Bilocation, and we’ve stumbled across some concept art for it. Plot wise it looks like we’re talking about possession by “beings” from a parallel dimension. They can always be troublesome! More when we get it.

The Japanese pop culture blog Gigazine has posted individual trailers for the trilogy of "Real Onigokko" movies being released in Japan this May.

All three movies are directed by Mari Asato (Ju-on: Black Ghost, Keitai Kanojo) and their events take place at the same time in different locations.

The Real Onigokko franchise is based on a novel by Yusuke Yamada about a parallel world where everyone with the last name "Sato" is hunted by masked men for some mysterious reason. "Onigokko" is the Japanese equivalent of the children's game "tag". The person designated "oni" (demon) tries to catch any of the other players. Appropriately, these movies generally stick to the basic theme of people being chased. Fighting back is rarely an option due to the single-minded determination of the "oni", so survivors end up running for their lives in a series of nonstop action scenes. In a similar vein to Battle Royale,...

Well Go USA will release the two latest Japanese horror films to bear the Ju-on name series in a two-movie package. Ju-On: White Ghost / Black Ghost—consisting of the 2009 films The Grudge: Old Lady in White and The Grudge: Girl in Black—will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 17.

There's more J-horror lurking on the horizon in Ju-on: White Ghost/Black Ghost.

The two movies are not official sequels to the Takashi Shimizu’s original Ju-on films from the early 2000s (which launched the J-horror craze and a slew of American remakes in the U.S., which has since settled down a bit). Still, they both look to be pretty creepy and complete with the ghostly, scary-as-hell images of long-haired children that frightened the hell out of us when we first saw the films years ago.

Here are some quick synopses of the two films:

Ju-on: White Ghost...