Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater (楳図かずお恐怖劇場), also known as Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater, is a Japanese six-part anthology horror film series based on manga works by Kazuo Umezu. It was released in 2005 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the start of Umezu's career as a manga artist. The series was distributed by Shochiku, and features music composed by singer-songwriter Rurutia.

House of Bugs
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (楳図かずお恐怖劇場蟲たちの家) is directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Its plot centers around a husband and wife, the former of whom suspects the latter of not only being unfaithful to him, but possibly mutating into a large insect.

Ambrosia
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Ambrosia (楳図かずお恐怖劇場絶食), is directed by Itō Tadafumi and written by Hiroshi Takahashi. It follows a schoolgirl who goes on an extreme diet in order to win the affections of a boy.

Snake Girl
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl (楳図かずお恐怖劇場まだらの少女), directed by Noboru Iguchi, is an adaptation of The Spotted Girl, an installment in Umezu's 1965–66 manga trilogy Reptilia. The film stars Arisa Nakamura as Yumiko, a girl who is invited by her cousin to spend her summer vacation in a rural village, where she finds herself terrorized by a half-human, half-snake witch.

The Wish
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: The Wish (楳図かずお恐怖劇場) is directed by Atsushi Shimizu. It follows a lonely schoolboy who carves a companion for himself in the form of a wooden doll shaped like a human head.

Present
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Present (楳図かずお恐怖劇場プレゼント), directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi, sees a group of students' Christmas festivities interrupted by a murderous Santa Claus and his band of flesh-eating reindeer.

Death Make
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make (楳図かずおの恐怖劇場 デスメイク) is directed by Taichi Itō. It follows a group of supposed psychics who, as part of a reality television program, are challenged to spend 24 hours in an abandoned office building where, ten years prior, a group of girls disappeared after attempting to summon ghosts.

Release
The six films were screened at the Eurospace theater in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, on 18 June 2005.