Gehenna: Where Death Lives – Movie Review
Gehenna: Where Death Lives is a horror adventure film from writer-director, Hiroshi Katagiri featuring appearances by genre veterans Lance Henriksen and Doug Jones in a time-bending story that will freak you out and teach you more about the frightening history of Saipan than you ever wanted to know. Speaking of which, what exactly do you know about the nation of Saipan? No, not Saigon. Not Japan either. Saipan. Yeah, I hadn’t heard of it myself until this film crossed my path. But in many ways sounding like a made-up country (it might as well be placed between Shadaloo and Genosha) makes this island commonwealth of the United States the perfect setting for a supernatural mystery. The less you know, the more you can buy into the creepy mythology revealed throughout. For the curious, Gehenna is apparently an old biblical reference to a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem where the locals dumped their trash into endlessly burning fires and Jesus used it as an example of everlasting destruction. So Gehenna is