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ChronoGrl

09-18-2010, 06:11 AM

Suicide Club (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/) (2001)

So, admittedly, it's been quite a while since I've watched what I would consider (with a lack of better words) an absurd/symbolic/intellectual horror film (examples: Miike - Audition/Gozu/Ichi the Killer, David Lynch - Mulholland Drive/Eraserhead/Blue Velvet), so Suicide Club took me a bit off guard.

This is a fairly complex film which examines themes of suicide (which is incredibly poignant and risque especially within Japanese culture), peer pressure, and the susceptible mass collective subconscious. To be honest, I left the film feeling a bit dissatisfied and unresolved, but the more I think about and read about this movie, the more I think it's an incredibly smart, macabre masterpiece.

I am having a hard time "rating" the film as I am still not sure that I completely "get" it yet... I honestly feel as though I am missing something integral to appreciating the movie as a whole... Which is why I am about to start a discussion thread here... I am perplexed (but not in a bad way) - I honestly want to explore this film a bit more as I feel as though it does deserve my cognitive attention.

Not a film to watch lightly, Suicide Club is smart, striking, and will definitely stay with you. Recommended for viewers who are looking for a little more than "just" a Japanese ghost story ("just" being in quotation marks as there is honestly nothing wrong with a damn good Japanese ghost story!).

Spookhouse

09-19-2010, 06:06 AM

PORNOSTAR aka Tokyo Rampage http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/tor.php

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster to perform a hit.

This young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?

Great movie. I love the revenge on gangster movies. When I tried to download it however I had some trouble with spam, if anybody knows here I can download a copy of this(not from a torrent) please let me know. 4 out of 5.

Spookhouse

09-20-2010, 10:20 AM

Okay so after watching Tokyo Rampage last night I got into this big Yakuza/Takashi Miike binge.

I started with Ichi the Killer, which is always a fun a movie in my opinion. Unfortunately I had to watch in Youtube and a few English subbed parts were missing. So I had to watch about 20 minutes in Japanese with some Thai subtitles.

Then I watched Dead or Alive, http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/doa.php

Without a home and feeling no obligation to Japanese society or Yakuza, Ryuichi and his small group decide to make their own place by trying to take over the Shinjuku underworld and the drug trade from Taiwan. A Takashi Miike lesson is ultra violent extremes.The ending really does have a WTF moment. 4/5

Then of course I watched the sequel, http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/doa-22.php

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good. This also gets 4/5

I'm working on Dead or Alive: Final which is the end to this Takashi Miike trilogy.

zwoti

09-26-2010, 03:43 AM

raging phoenix

roshiq

09-27-2010, 08:45 AM

Acacia (2003)

A decent K-Horror with a bit tragic plot but the pace was pretty slow.

>>: B-

zwoti

09-27-2010, 01:31 PM

invisible target

Spookhouse

09-28-2010, 05:28 AM

Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge - http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/neg.php

One day, a pathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Based on the best-selling novel by Tatsuhiko Takimoto. 4/5.

Scythe

09-29-2010, 05:48 PM

The last Asian horror movie I have seen was Ichi The Killer. I bought it on DVD a couple months ago but simply didn't watch it until recently. A friend back in high school told me it was ridiculously gory so I had to check it out.

Boy was he right.

Not only did it come with a little fake packet of blood souvenir, but the movie itself was practically dripping of blood. I enjoyed the movie as a whole, but there was some CGI that I didn't like. For example:

**Spoiler**
There is one scene where a bad guys face is literally sliced right off his head and splats against a wall, then slides down. While it was an inventive idea, it looked incredibly fake. I know that's probably pretty hard to imitate with real effects, but if you can't make it look decent then don't do it.
**Spoiler End**

Ichi The Killer WOULD be the bloodiest movie I have ever seen, if it weren't for Tokyo Gore Police. That movie was just...ridiculous. If you have seen it, you know what I mean.

Spookhouse

09-30-2010, 10:25 AM

I loved Ichi the Killer. One of my favorite Takashi Miike movies.

zwoti

09-30-2010, 01:32 PM

robin-b-hood

psycho d

10-02-2010, 04:53 AM

Mad Detective (2007). Another Johnnie To masterpiece, this movie flickers between a heartfelt comedy to a tragic sense of being, to a great study in psychology to intriguing crime drama. And all the time the viewer is left wondering where the line of sanity is drawn; or is it being redrawn as we speak? No matter, as the end of this wonderfully convoluted crime drama perfectly if not bravely ties it all together with satisfying resolve. The acting was top notch, with our main protagonist stealing the show with his zany and occasionally sad antics. The direction oozed of style, and the camera allowed for its dark atmosphere to sneak out stolen color with aplomb. The score was light in tone and perfectly augmented the lightheartedness of insanity, keeping the bleak notion of the story's reality from besmirching our fun. Told with a sense of balance that threatened to be lost at any moment, this was a story with no need of bullet ballets to keep the viewer saddled with tension. Merci beaucoup.
Genruk

NaughtyBear

10-02-2010, 03:49 PM

The grudge 1 & 2
The ring 1
And death note: the last name

All great movies

zwoti

10-03-2010, 01:29 PM

johnnie to's vengeance

zwoti

10-08-2010, 01:50 PM

tidal wave

roshiq

10-09-2010, 02:09 AM

Yoga (2009)

Very average, boring at the end.

>>: C

aprilc1

10-09-2010, 02:21 AM

Tokyo Gore Police
Onechanbara Samarai Bikini Squad
Attack Girls Swim Team vs The Undead

ChronoGrl

10-09-2010, 08:39 AM

zwoti

10-09-2010, 01:00 PM

samurai princess

roshiq

10-09-2010, 11:42 PM

Dark Water (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308379/) (2002)

Yet further proof that the Asians do it better... Dark Water is a fantastic creepy ghost movie... Great atmosphere, suspense, and legitimately creepy moments. Loved the ending too. It's definitely up there with The Ring and Shutter.

4/5.

Though I didn't find it that much creepy but surely it's a beautiful film indeed. In compare to the remake it more effectively treated the emotional content of the story throughout the movie and specially at the end. Loved it too.

Angra

10-10-2010, 12:20 AM

Why haven't any of you seen "I saw the devil" yet?

Get to it, chop chop.

roshiq

10-10-2010, 01:23 AM

Why haven't any of you seen "I saw the devil" yet?

Get to it, chop chop.

Is its dvd released already? or if you saw it on the net then please share the link.:)

Angra

10-10-2010, 04:52 AM

No, i haven't seen it anywhere. I was hoping you guys had.

ChronoGrl

10-10-2010, 06:39 AM

Why haven't any of you seen "I saw the devil" yet?

Get to it, chop chop.

Not available on Netflix yet. :(

zwoti

10-10-2010, 02:34 PM

rashomon
chungking express

zwoti

10-11-2010, 01:27 PM

the legend is born: ip man

ChronoGrl

10-11-2010, 04:39 PM

^^ Hey - you... YOU!

What do you think of Suicide Club? Join the dying discussion! You're a mysterious Mod, Mr. Zwoti - I have NO idea what your tastes are.

zwoti

10-13-2010, 02:35 PM

You're a mysterious Mod, Mr. Zwoti - I have NO idea what your tastes are.

well if you did then i wouldn't be so mysterious :p

roshiq

10-13-2010, 11:37 PM

Re Cycle (2006)

Beautiful story with great visuals.

>>: B+

ChronoGrl

10-14-2010, 05:05 AM

well if you did then i wouldn't be so mysterious :p

>:-[

...............

Spookhouse

10-18-2010, 06:27 AM

G.P. 506 (2008) Soldiers and officers of GP 506 located somewhere in the vicinity of the DMZ fail to report back to their superiors.Though they had located two surviving soldiers, one of them being an enlisted soldier and a suspect in the mass murders and the other the said base’s commanding officer.

The MP team finds out that a homicidal virus is responsible for the massacre and they later get isolated in the same post due to the raging weather while being infected with the same disease. 4/5 http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/506.php

No Mercy (2010) When a beautiful young woman is found butchered into six parts by a river, with an arm missing, Kang a forensic pathologist is beckoned for one last job.

Min, a rookie detective narrows down the investigation, which points to Lee Seong Ho as the primary suspect. Lee, a respected environmental activist, confidently admits his guilt, saying that he committed the crime in order to oppose constructions that would divide a local river into six parts.But is all as it seems... 4/5 http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/nomer.php

zwoti

10-18-2010, 12:46 PM

tokyo zombie

>:-[

it had some pretty visuals, but i found it lacking...though it has been a few years since i saw it.

happy?

ChronoGrl

10-19-2010, 09:12 AM

...

I am satiated, yes.

_____V_____

10-22-2010, 09:23 PM

Kwaidan
Shutter

roshiq

10-22-2010, 10:24 PM

Scare 2 Die (http://www.fullhalloween.com/blog/716/scare-2-die-japanese-2008-poster-plot-horror/) (2008)

A horror anthology of 3 stories where except the first one the other two doesn't make any sense. The funny part is may be as it was produced by Pang brothers there was a glimpse of a scene from Re-Cycle (2006) that they use in the last segment.

Overall, it was pretty disappointing.

>>: C-

Despare

10-23-2010, 07:54 AM

The Good, The Bad, and The Weird

I really liked this one, the characters were fun, the story was decent, and the action was great.

magenta

10-24-2010, 01:51 PM

A Tale of Two Sisters

zwoti

10-25-2010, 01:39 PM

Shinya Tsukamoto's Haze

packmule

10-25-2010, 04:08 PM

The Protector(2003)

roshiq

11-01-2010, 10:16 PM

Kakashi aka Scarecrow (http://asianmediawiki.com/Scarecrow) (2001)

It was a decent plot but pretty slow and it could have been potentially scarier than it was but it didn't go that way.

>>: B-

DP McCoy

11-08-2010, 11:29 AM

Dream Home

This was suprisingly graphic and brutal,with several scenes that were uncompromising and uncomfortable to watch.That is not to say that Dream Home is nothing more than a gore fest (Although there is much grue on show),there is also an engaging back story that is told in a series of flash backs,which gradually reveal the central characters motives .

7/10

zwoti

11-08-2010, 12:45 PM

ong bak 3..

roshiq

11-12-2010, 10:34 PM

G.P. 506: The Guard Post (2008)

>>: B

psycho d

11-14-2010, 04:22 AM

Fallen Angels (1995). Strapping neon lights in the dark underbelly of Hong Kong sets the stage for this uber-hip tale of isolationist tragedy of love-shorn fallen heroes as they try to make their way amongst the cold heartless throngs of civilization. Where connections of life are hostile, our players literally create from scratch a method to link a distant humanity to their otherwise meaningless lives. The result is pure visual bliss. To not be pleasurably mesmerized by this flick is a treason best left without a conviction. The story is a haphazard scramble of lost souls loosely linked by a cinematic art form best left undefined. The direction is just as indescribably perfect, like putting into words the puissance of Mona Lisa's hinting smile. The camera man must have enjoyed a cocktail of methamphetamines washed down with steroids, the result being a wonderfully frenzied complex of voyeuristic energies and incongruous situations whose symbolic import are indelibly brought together in this flick's perfect ending. The only problem was that, as in all of life, the good times all must come to a painful end, a lustful need for more conjugated to an emptiness that life verite' seems unwilling to fulfill.
Genruk

Angra

11-15-2010, 07:41 AM

"Ong-bak 3" 3/10

Tony Jaa's nightmare (or trainwreck, if you will) has finally come to an end. Thank God for that.

What we get in this one is, 25 minutes of breaking down, 45 minutes of building up again and 20 minutes of uninspired revenge action. The final fight with Jaa vs. Dan Chupong (again) says it all. Two of Thailands best action stars against each other and not a single cool stunt comes out of it.

I'm certain Jaa is totally drained after this director experience and i'm even more certain we won't see him in a directors seat for a long time. Coz damn..

Doctor Loomis

11-15-2010, 12:41 PM

kung fu hustle

GoreHound13

11-15-2010, 09:34 PM

Ninja Assasin

HardCoreKid

11-16-2010, 08:40 AM

Ninja Assassin 7/10 + A Tale of Two Sisters 8/10

Monet's Muse

11-16-2010, 04:18 PM

Meatball Machine

roshiq

11-17-2010, 01:29 AM

Ichi the Killer (2001)

One bloody hell of a Yakuza story from Takashi Mike! Specially spectacular in gore department and also the characterization of sadomasochistic don Kakihara!

Waited too long to see this Mike masterpiece and absolutely loved it after watching it yesterday for the very first time.

>>: A-

Visitor Q (2001)

OMG!...OMG!...:eek:

But have to give total credit to Mike for his brave effort in portrayal of such a utterly screwed up dysfunctional family. This extreme showcase may symbolizes the hidden picture of their grief, distances & helplessness that exits between every member of the family & in the society of course, which is again driven crazy by the phenomenon of media exploitation that blurs the difference between reality TV and the nature of reality itself. The only question remains...What are we supposed to feel?

>>: A-

roshiq

11-21-2010, 01:32 AM

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

Brilliant! 2 "Woman-in-prison exploitation" films with fascinating art house treatments! Loved the Bava-like colorful style of capturing scenes with surreal sensibilities and undeniably the social & political overtone. In his first film Director Shunya Ito I think to some extent critically tried to explore a darker side or meaning of a national symbol (Flag) in multiple shots which is all about his artistic approach in protesting the corrupted systems; and that continues even in a greater scale in the 2nd film where there's a wonderful little scene just at the beginning of a prison revolt...prisoners thrown their sandals up in the air and just for a moment there we see the hats of the prison guards instead of the prisoner's sandals...! Now that's an ironic touch from a class film maker. A truly visionary, one of a kind experience. Hate to wait for the next 2 installments of the series; hopefully going to watch them very soon.

>>: A

Elvis_Christ

11-21-2010, 03:11 PM

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

Hell yeh... those two are awesome. Have you seen Lady Snowblood or Sex & Fury?

roshiq

11-21-2010, 09:15 PM

Hell yeh... those two are awesome. Have you seen Lady Snowblood or Sex & Fury?

I saw Sex & Fury once but that was bit long ago and haven't seen LSB yet...hope to see it soon.

zwoti

11-24-2010, 01:54 PM

bodyguards & assassins
meatball machine
three kingdoms: resurrection of the dragon

roshiq

11-27-2010, 02:27 AM

Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)

>>: A-

Entrails of a Virgin (1986)

Over the top Asian sexploitation or should I say "torture porn" flick?

>>: C+

aprilc1

11-27-2010, 03:33 PM

The Machine Girl--My favorite
Tokyo Gore Police

psycho d

11-29-2010, 04:24 AM

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009). Geysers of arterial blood are made into an art form with the same respect as the fountains that grace a nation's great historical sites. Well, maybe respect is too strong a term, but the blood ballets are just one of the many squishy splendors offered up in this madness-strewn flick from Japan. Offensively violent, voyeuristic, insensitive, and stereotypical, this one has it all. The story itself seems a random crank-induced series of subplots that ultimately come together to form this entry's finale. These schoolgirls and their clicks, heck nigh everyone, are ineffably zany. They must be seen to be believed as entertainment. The CGI, like everything else, is used in excess, a trait that the Japanese have cultivated into a vaunted cultural trademark. The score helps to drive the lighthearted fun, a wonderful respite from the gallons of redness spilled. How the Japanese can take sheer lunacy, exploit it for all that it is worth, and then serve it up in such a splendid fashion will forever be a mysterious trait that need not be explained as long as they keep churning out more inexplicably good fun. Merci beaucoup.
Genruk

roshiq

12-01-2010, 03:09 AM

Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Grudge Song (1973)

Urami-iiiii-bushi~~loved this song!

>>: B+

ChronoGrl

12-03-2010, 05:17 AM

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1425928/)

Had been looking forward to viewing this one for a while and I have to say, I was really disappointed. While yes, it absolutely is riddled with some fantastic over-the-top splatter, I ultimately found it a bit empty and wanting. I don't know - Maybe I was turned off by the incredibly offensive Dark Skin Club (complete with black face) or maybe I was annoyed by the Wrist Cutters Club - I don't know - The combination of the two just seemed like some kind of inappropriate inside joke that I just didn't get because while ultimately they do merge into our main story in the end, I still don't see the point.

Even the odd mechanics, violence, and gore couldn't really turn me on - I'm actually pretty confused as to why I was so turned off on this one - Quite frankly, I love Tokyo Gore Police and found Machine Girl perfectly entertaining, but Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is just weird (not in a good way, offensive (not in a good way) and ultimately disappointing.

2.75/5

I can't say DON'T SEE IT however because I honestly do think that there are members of this forum that would enjoy it... I just personally found it lacking. I will have to make up for this anti-climatic disappointment by watching Tokyo Gore Police and Meatball Machine this weekend.

ChronoGrl

12-05-2010, 05:59 AM

Meatball Machine (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0820111/)

Really enjoyed this one - Fantastic Japanese Troma splatter - It's weird, bizarre, bloody fantastic body horror. Almost felt like a modern retelling of Tetsuo in some ways.

It's up there with Tokyo Gore Police and Ricky-Oh in terms of great JA splatter. Definitely recommended if you're looking for something bizarre, absurd and fantastic.

4/5.

Elvis_Christ

12-05-2010, 03:54 PM

I really should get round to seeing Meatball Machine sounds great.

Shame to hear Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl isn't up to much.

psycho d

12-06-2010, 04:12 AM

Fulltime Killer (2001). Where the story proper is lacking, style and execution step up to fill the void, as in many exceptional Hong Kong bullet fests. And where less intrepid directors would exhibit prudence, Johnnie To dispenses the cool and the corny with such confidence that it is all taken in bloody stride, creating fresh cinematic geography to be exploited and enjoyed. The acting was awesome, with Andy Lau and Takashi Sorimachi portraying diametric opposites of character whose fates must collide by order of the cosmos. Kelly Lin fits in as shy, gorgeous, and bored, inevitably attracting the cross hairs of the competition in their amorous designs. Simon Yam, playing a satellite in uniform, a crime drama must, suddenly turns up center stage towards the end of the flick, a hallmark trait of foreign flicks that are not constrained by cinematic dogma. The main focus is on the style of action, and To delivers scene after scene of bullet ballets where stylistic innovation triumphs over the plausible, all to the delight of the audience. For those seeking cinema verite steer clear, but for those seeking the inimitable style of Hong Kong action then having a peek at Fulltime Killer will surely compensate one's investment. Merci beaucoup.
Genruk

ChronoGrl

12-06-2010, 04:50 AM

I really should get round to seeing Meatball Machine sounds great.

Shame to hear Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl isn't up to much.

Yes, yes you should see Meatball Machine. ;)

Re: Vampire Girl... - Honestly, you might enjoy it a lot more than I did... They made some choices in the movie that I just found offensive and couldn't get over (like they had a "Black" club - all of the students in Black Face)... I think that probably most people would get the joke as just being outrageous - But I couldn't get by it.

roshiq

12-07-2010, 01:12 AM

psycho d

12-11-2010, 05:42 AM

Tokyo Gore Police (2008). It took me more than a year to fabricate an appreciation for movies such as this or Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, but now I cannot seem to get enough of them. Too much of a good thing is now never enough. Detractors of Tokyo Gore Police cannot restrain themselves from mentioning its shortcomings, but they seem to have missed the point, and likely more than that. The crazy editing may be wild but is far from incompetent. It speaks volumes without having to literally tell the viewer what the movie is up to. Various comparisons to Miike and Cronenberg are fair but seem to intimate a sort of cheap imitation, but I say these that Tokyo Gore Police stands on its own two feet. The story, while seemingly simple, might just have its roots deeper than that of a Starship Troopers mentality; I would go so far as to surmise that this was an extreme parody of samurai culture disturbingly blended with Nazism. The gore here speaks for itself . Honestly, I would love to learn just how many gallons of the red juice was actually spilled in the creation of this movie. The acting toed the line perfectly, wooden expressions and extreme histrionics fitting in well with the genre. The effects were a makeup artist's dream, full of amplified bizarre and fun outrages. The overall effect is that I simply cannot wait to check out the next speed-infused gore-fest that Japan has to offer.
Genruk

roshiq

12-13-2010, 01:19 AM

Moju / Blind Beast (1969)

A fascinating psycho-sexual tale of art, pain & pleasure. Liked that splendid set of Michio's studio.

>>: A-

psycho d

12-14-2010, 04:47 AM

Sorum (2001). Sorum is a movie that dances around genres with a fear of commitment that only adds to the grim details of our character's lives. Unlike other movies, it does not fall prey to the contrived necessity to reveal the complete back plot by way of ostensible flashbacks. Instead it relies on the intelligence of the audience to figure it out, or not. The characters here are a shifty lot, creating a splendid layer of suspicion as to who is going to be the bad guy, if such a creature is to make an appearance. Likable the characters are not. Set in about as dreary a housing complex that has ever existed, this home ground symbolizes the lives of our players, a corrupt morality where life's baggage keeps piling up unattended, with stagnation sure to seek rot as its faithful companion. This is the setting for a typical South Korean cinematic affair, a convoluted tale of shady characters whose shenanigans are sure to catch up with them. The only question is what form will their dirty deeds manifest in order to play havoc on the remainder of their lives. The acting was strong; they all captivated my whole attention in that I wanted to know just what sort of past could have created such misery. Director Jong-chan Yun's debut is a solid one. He crafts a creepy tale that relies on filming basics, eschewing any need for tricky tactics to mask any shortcomings. Not a film for everyone, but for those that enjoy a slow burner with lots of character meat to chew on, Sorum is sure to satisfy us in one way while challenging us in another.
Genruk

ChronoGrl

12-14-2010, 06:58 AM

zwoti

12-14-2010, 09:52 AM

deadly outlaw: rekka
chanbara beauty
geisha assassin (geisha vs ninja)
hero

roshiq

12-16-2010, 06:39 AM

Aftershock (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1393746/) (2010)

A heart pounding epic human drama, with its title being interpreted quite literally and referring to the emotional and psychological scars of the earthquake that continue to affect its victims even generations after the event.
The film opens in 1976 with the Tangshan earthquake, which lasted just 23 seconds, but which leveled the city and resulted in a death toll of more than 240,000. The plot follows a family caught up in the horror, with father Fang Daqiang being killed while trying to rescue his children, leaving his wife Li Yuanni in the unthinkable position of having to choose between saving either her young son Fang Da or daughter Fang Deng.
By spanning several decades, it does a pretty good job of developing its characters in convincing fashion, and the story is engaging, moving & boosted by a decent script and some very solid acting.

The film has been submitted to the 83rd Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film. I really hope at least it gets the nomination.

Highly recommended to all here. Specially NE, CG, PD and V, don't miss it.

>>: A+

neverending

12-16-2010, 09:59 PM

Voices

Really good

ChronoGrl

12-17-2010, 06:00 AM

Voices

Really good

Which one is that? There's a movie called Voice and a movie called Voices and I get them mixed up...

roshiq

12-17-2010, 06:11 AM

Which one is that? There's a movie called Voice and a movie called Voices and I get them mixed up...

Same here:D

But I think NE saw the AfterDarkHorrorFest one which is also known as Someone Behind You (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213856/).

neverending

12-17-2010, 11:36 AM

Yah- that's the one!

newb

12-17-2010, 07:17 PM

Vengeance

Johnnie To is a very stylish director

Johnny Hallyday is a charismatic actor

nice combo

zwoti

12-18-2010, 03:04 PM

Vengeance

Johnnie To is a very stylish director

Johnny Hallyday is a charismatic actor

nice combo

you can't go wrong with johnnie to

death tube

ChronoGrl

12-18-2010, 07:10 PM

Same here:D

But I think NE saw the AfterDarkHorrorFest one which is also known as Someone Behind You (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213856/).

Ahh - I really liked that one. Haven't seen the other one yet, but Voices was a good, solid horror flick I thought.

Angra

12-19-2010, 09:10 AM

Ahh - I really liked that one. Haven't seen the other one yet, but Voices was a good, solid horror flick I thought.

Aaaww.. love that new signature pic of yours.

ChronoGrl

12-21-2010, 08:54 AM

Aaaww.. love that new signature pic of yours.

Why thank you! Look! I made one for you!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/angra.jpg

Angra

12-21-2010, 11:33 AM

Why thank you! Look! I made one for you!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/angra.jpg

Very nice. And true. :cool:

ChronoGrl

12-21-2010, 11:47 AM

Very nice. And true. :cool:

bahahaha - It looks good on you. :cool:

zwoti

12-22-2010, 11:09 AM

jiang hu
ashes of time: redux
meat grinder

psycho d

12-25-2010, 05:15 AM

The Machine Girl (2008). This was simply over-the-top fun. I think that is where the movie craft of gore-fest films either peters out or is is fueled by its own mayhem. Being visually assaulted with barrage after barrage of gore, arterial spray, violence, and a mean streak that cannot be curbed, movies like these can easy become tiresome. But in this case the fun never stops. The story is a simple, black and white take on good, evil, and revenge. Elements of times past and present are thrown in for good measure, and the script's pitching arm does not miss its mark. The acting was sufficient for such an exploit; anything greater would have been drowned in faked blood so why bother. The camera work was more than sufficient and really helped capture the frenzy of each zany moment. The direction takes what should have been a dollar bin disaster and brings it to the fore of the running, even eliciting comparisons to Dead Alive in its attempt to create fountains of gore with a mischievously artistic flair. In all honesty my first go at this flick ended poorly at about 15 minutes deep. Like smoking and drinking, such vices take time to acquire the criminal taste that is necessitated to savor damnable endeavors such as The Machine Girl.
Merry Christmas!
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psycho d

12-30-2010, 07:53 AM

Noriko's Dinner Table (2005). What Shion Sono has created here is a type of horror flick whose monster is found in the details of a society that is undergoing a massive cultural shift, its victims adult and child alike. The philosophic endeavors examined include existential reality as it exists and pits it against a reality that is being created and virtually lived by the Japanese by way of personas. Are we how we act or is our verite deeper than that? Life almost seems less true when we live a perfunctory life based on so-called truths than were we to openly prevaricate to ourselves and those around us in regards to our feelings and intentions. Maybe this is this film centers on the ultimate form of existentialism, where unfolding events creates reality, and not the individuals involved and their attempts at persuasion. It is almost as if we are asked to hold true the paradoxes of life as if they were the best of friends, individuals that are polar by nature and yet complimentary in effect. Noriko's Diner Table takes its sweet time achieving such a conundrum, and it does so in a fashion that rarely works. Driven by inner dialog, the story takes place in chapters in order to achieve such a deep level of character development. At times it almost feels more like a book than a movie, which might account for its ability to impart its profound message. At 159 minutes, no time is used with gratuity, each and every scene adds a new piece to the puzzle, and even though some new additions only add more confusion, they each and all work toward the film's denouement. The story itself is quite original, which speaks volumes in a world replete with the same old story being retold in a fresh fashion. The symbolism used here is deep, and though much must have been lost in translation to those whose tongues are not of the Japanese persuasion, much reward is still gifted the non-native audience. The imagery and the camera work were phenomenal, employing techniques that obscures or washes out our players, disconnecting us from them much like their own inner sense of disconnection. Shion Sono has created a masterpiece that deserves more than my limited viewpoint, and that is probably for the better. This film seems a better match for individuals that want to create their own impression as opposed to having predigested notions fed to them. The final climax, a long, complex and emotional shot, was pure cinematic significance. The whole discombobulated enchilada comes together, and sets the score for an ending that is more a journey's beginning than its completion. Merci beaucoup.
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roshiq

01-01-2011, 12:41 AM

Lady Snowblood (1973)
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

>>: A

Hisss (2010)

>>: D

zwoti

01-01-2011, 02:58 PM

Gamera vs. Barugon
The Isle

zwoti

01-02-2011, 03:22 PM

gamera vs gyaos
gamera vs viras
fireball

DP McCoy

01-03-2011, 08:32 AM

Fatal Contact -

I found this disappointing.The fight sequences were all very slick but suffered from an overload of wire work,and Jacky Wu's opponents were just a succession of charecterless,uninspired,paperthin mannequins who carried no
menace or threat whatsoever.The ending was a complete and utter mess,an incoherent,illogical,abysmal mess. 3/10

roshiq

01-08-2011, 01:09 AM

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

The tag line on the dvd cover (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1949408256/tt0102293) says it all..."It's Evil Dead 2, Braindead and the Matrix; times ten, turned up to eleven!"

:D

Absolutely loved it, from the start to finish!

>>: A

Aakrosh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakrosh_%282010_film%29) (2010)

A loose Bollywood remake of Alan Parker's 1988 masterpiece Mississippi Burning! Right from the characters, story, some sequence of events, love interests, barber shop, dialogs - everything was quite the same but all comes with a very mediocre adaptation. The "Colored vs White" in MB has been replaced by Upper castes vs Lower castes. The people who haven't seen the original or almost forget about it (like my elder bro), this would turn out to be a good movie for them.

>>: C

zwoti

01-08-2011, 02:24 PM

gamera vs. guiron
gamera vs. jiger
battle royale
meltdown (aka high risk)
fireball

JackForrest

01-09-2011, 07:48 AM

I dunno, I dont really keep track.. I watch Goemon last.. but i dunno it i'd consider that horror, but then you guys are naming movies that I know are not horror.. so yeah.

Goemon is dope.

I watch Ghost system not too long ago.. and otogiriso

ChronoGrl

01-09-2011, 12:58 PM

Doctor Loomis

01-09-2011, 09:46 PM

kung fu hustle

roshiq

01-09-2011, 11:52 PM

Was that your first time seeing it? I really need to see it again - Thoroughly LOVED that flick...

Yeap...first time! Waited too long to see this one.

psycho d

01-12-2011, 04:50 AM

Yojimbo (1961). Imagine that, it's still awesome!
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roshiq

01-15-2011, 01:39 AM

Meatball Machine (2005)

>>: B

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

>>: B+

No offense but I think only weird, mind-fucked Japanese people can make this sorta splatter fests in the world these days.:D Loved those awesomely hilarious TV commercials in between scenes in TGP.

But still in the series I like the Machine Girl most.

zwoti

01-16-2011, 02:54 AM

kim ki-duk's the bow

psycho d

01-20-2011, 08:31 AM

The Emperor and the Assassin (1998). History, but for those who like to learn from movies, this epic flick is a monumental endeavor that chronicles a feudal Chinese king's efforts and desires to unify a country. It has all the usual suspects: betrayal, intrigue, love, nobility, ambition, redemption, and revelation, and manages to fit them all into a splendid account of the determination to create a Qin dynasty.

The acting was marvelous. What might at first be thought of as unsightly histrionics were actually the proper codes of courtly conduct. The king's antics are showy more for historical context than for show itself. The smarmy smile of the marquis was almost of Shakespearean quality, ambiguity that belied his potential intrigues.

The direction was epic, with scenes that literally employed thousands of human bodies, it is simply astonishing that any coordination could be exacted, let alone that which was achieved. The camera work was more than competent, giving rise to considerable scenes but not reminding us of his presence.

The biggest gripe of this movie, and rightfully so, was the editing. Defenders claim that the fast edits were necessary for effect. I have no problem with fast edits, but good editing is not to be noticed unless it is genuinely clever. Given that, the occasionally flubbed editing was not enough to detract from the splendor of this incredible take on a Chinese story that has been told over and over again, and in this case with an enjoyable style that makes its 160 minute run-time seem almost short.
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SAWfreak

01-23-2011, 08:54 AM

The Call, The Call 2 and The Call 3

roshiq

01-25-2011, 02:48 AM

Chugyeogja (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Chaser) aka The Chaser (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/) (2008)

For the last couple of years as I have been watching movies regularly & passionately, now I undoubtedly like to admit that South Korea has become the boss in the sub genre of Serial Killer films in today's world cinema. After such recent masterpieces like Memories of Murder & Mother, now here is another superb & magnificent addition to the Korean Serial Killer genre of movies.
The Chaser is an intensely mesmerizing and keeping on the-edge of your seat experience. But more than that I should say it's a devastating experience...that I truly felt at close to the end of the film. The film is based on a real life serial killer in South Korea, who was convicted in 2005 for murdering 20 people. The film starts with a dirty detective turned pimp (Jung-ho) who is in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now. He begins to look for her in that client's mentioned location of area & during the search, Jung-ho even able to catch that man (wearing blood splattered shirt) in an alley. But just after that the police takes control over the situation. The police suspects & Jung-ho believes this man is the killer or abductor but there's no significant evidence in their hand except his utterly misleading confession. And from that point of the film The Chaser becomes more intriguing the more watch with all the twist & turns till the final credit rolls.
It's not just another crime drama about a serial killer and some guys chasing him; there's comedy of errors in the way the police and politicians are portrayed, there's strong emotional content that grows around the little girl of a prostitute who doubts something happened to her mother, there's sufficient psychological thriller element that comes through the way the killer messes with the minds of the police and last but not the least there's the shattering finale...as in the way everything ends.

Except Derek, I'm not sure who else here already seen this film but this is unmissable! A MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE!

>>: A

Angra

01-25-2011, 06:59 AM

neverending

01-25-2011, 07:03 AM

Sounds great- I'd love to see this.

psycho d

01-26-2011, 06:09 AM

Graveyard of Honor (2002). This incredible tango of violence opens with a beautifully poetic sense of devastation that is then backed by one of the best opening scenes ever. Those looking for the corny artistry that is the hallmark of Miike might be thrown for a loop with Graveyard of Honor, for this is one of his grittiest offerings ever. Unlike Ichi and his other flicks, the violence portrayed here is merely brutal and realistic, offering little comic relief.

The protagonist is one of the most unlikable characters to have ever found his way into film, so much so that any affections for him come through those unfortunates in the story that have been relegated to care about him. The thing that is most compelling about the antihero is that he is true to himself. Though we see him as a monster, his acts are that of a feral, viciously antisocial, and rather obtuse animal. Our difficulty in judging him comes with our association of him as human, but he is more a simple beast in search of carnal satisfaction. Like a wolf, keep him fed and he'll heel, but miss a meal and he''ll bite your hand off, no time for questions.

Of course, this is a creature that will never fare well in the real world, even if that world is littered with sociopaths in training, mainly because these students will all contain a remembrance of what it means to be a civilized human. As such, this movie is about an accidental career elevation and the doom that must come to fruition. Adding drugs, misplaced honor, misogyny, and revenge only adds to the fun of the convoluted spiral that our central character almost challenges to come his way. This guy truly sees himself in the mirror. This ugly truth is fully unearthed during the shootout scene, which might be the one comical moments here, more because the scene ends out of the pragmatics of sociopathy.

The acting was solid in every instance. The lead character is disturbing only because we come to believe the confliction of one that lacks empathy but understands the violent necessity of honor through revenge. His forced wife transcends into her role perfectly; submit to the beast or suffer. The irony of the honor that the beast's allies must cling onto is revealed in their faces, for they see the fatalistic nature that this honor will manifest.

The score was a slow, snazzy jazz piece that helped infuse the dreadful imagery with an underlying sense of culture. Sound, or rather a lack of it, is also used with devastating effect. Some scenes are almost too painful to speak of, and so the sound bows out as if doing so will somehow help. But even sound becomes helpless in the wake of this cruel maniac.

What Miike has created here is another example of this great director's scope. Though difficult to watch, for those of us that look for the nastiest methods by which to be moved by cinema, Graveyard of Honor will indeed be a moving presentation, moving us right up to the brink.
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newb

01-26-2011, 05:33 PM

Watching Tokyo Gore Police

what the hell is in that Sake ?

loving it

psycho d

01-27-2011, 04:05 AM

Mother (2009). Mother comes into existence with a scene whose photography was spectacular and subconsciously informative, only to have that notion shattered with a seeming unnecessary absurdity that is a joy to experience none the less. It then moves right into the heart of the story whose focus is on a mother's love and the extremes that she will travel to protect her son. To be honest, this is not a great sales pitch, but since this is from the director of Memories of Murder and The Host, we know that this will be no slip shod drama.

The story itself is rather uncomplicated, which is a nice deviation from the typically convoluted South Korean fare that leaves us outsiders scratching our heads as if digging for head lice. This is not to imply that there are no twists and turns because there are. But they make immediate sense, even for an unconventional murder mystery driven by the fanaticism of an overprotective mother with a skeleton or two of her own.

The acting was simply incredible. Lead Hye-ja Kim drags us along in her quirky and chunky capacity as a maternal sleuth, leaving a path of unlikely victims in her wake. Surprisingly, through one of her blunders, she comes upon some unlikely advice that actually points her in the right direction. But even at this point we are unsure as to the intents of this advice, unfriendly as it should seem to be. The denouement was a foreseeable surprise that captures us totally off-guard, but our unlikely heroine still has a shenanigan or two up her sleeve. The end was was a dark shade of morality offset by love, and the end finally makes use of some seemingly unrelated information.

And while this movie is driven by the titular character, the slight roles of the secondary characters feel far from peripheral. These smaller roles are handled with the same intense significance of Mother dearest, making this movie all the meatier.

The direction was simply captivating. Each scene composed to build imaginary dams of emotion that were released with the genius of psychological artistry. The photography seemed simple and effectively portrayed the characters by their current emotion and predicament. The score was typical South Korean musical sophistry, both pleasant and implicative.

That last scene was one of unimaginable brilliance, not only tying up the beginning's loose threads, but serving as an undulating portrayal of emotional transcendence, where we finally feel the meaning of releasing the heaviness of the heart. Merci.
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ChronoGrl

01-30-2011, 05:02 PM

Robogeisha (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381512/) (2009)

Ok, not gonna lie, but I was pretty disappointed with this one. I'm not sure if it's because I had hyped myself up about it or if I've seen enough Japanese splatterpunk that I am immune to its quixotic exsanquination, but Robogeisha just didn't do it for me. Sure, they managed to find different ways for women to shoot bullets or protrude guns, but nothing that I haven't already seen before in Tokyo Gore Police or Machine Girl, two films who were significantly more enjoyable.

Quite frankly, I found it boring and derivative. And I shut it off around the time that a building turned into a giant robot.

*YAWN*

2/5.

roshiq

01-31-2011, 08:37 AM

Dream Home (http://asianmediawiki.com/Dream_Home_%282010-Hong_Kong_Movie%29) (2010)

A pretty brutal tale of struggle for a seaside view apartment where the story evolves with a nice blend of social commentary & extreme gore.

>>: B+

Barking Dogs Never Bite (http://asianmediawiki.com/Barking_Dogs_Never_Bite) (2000)

A very beautiful dark comedy from Bong Joon-Ho...the director of internationally acclaimed Korean masterpieces like Memories of Murder, The Host and Mother.

>>: A-

roshiq

02-08-2011, 12:22 AM

I Saw the Devil (http://asianmediawiki.com/I_Saw_the_Devil) (2010)

This is one BLOODY-Ferocious revenge thriller! After finding out his girlfriend has been brutally murdered by a sadistic killer, NSI agent Soo-Hyun takes the matters into his own hand and soon enough able to tracks down the psychopath culprit Kyung-chul who mercilessly likes to kill his young female victims with a dose of sexual assault. Soo-Hyun also takes an oath for his dead gf to give her killer ‘10000 times more pain’ and eventually he tries that through his own macabre catch-and-release game. He finds Kyung-chul & beats him up pretty badly, but instead of killing him, he leaves him alive. He wants to stalk his prey, and exact his revenge slowly and increasingly more painfully. Soo-Hyun takes the vengeance into a new level of gruesomeness where the line between ‘good & evil’ or ‘crime & punishment’ becomes blurred…where both of them explores & shows their darker & meaner side to each other and finally confronts the Devil on earth within them.

This kind of hard-boiled revenge thriller today we can only find in Korea. But in compare to Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance trilogy or Korea's rising genre of Serial killer films (like Memories of Murder, Mother & The Chaser) ISTD doesn’t come with the same level of ‘Sympathy’ dilemma or emotional content that leaves you with a devastating or mind blowing experience. But it’s a pure and nearly over the top gore & action pack revenge thriller that surely has the capacity to satisfy its original audience. One sequence involving a brutal double murder in a running cab where the camera swoops around the scene in a circle is simply magnificent to watch. So don’t take it as just another grotesque revenge thriller…there’s plenty of eye catching moments you’ll find in Kim Ji-woon’s (the director of The Quiet Family, A Tale of 2 Sisters, A Bittersweet Life and The Good, the Bad, the Weird) I SAW THE DEVIL.

>>: A-

Our Town (http://asianmediawiki.com/Our_Town) (2007)

The film is set in a small, unnamed Korean town and the story surrounds here this time with two killers…an original & a copycat. Since the identities of the killers are never in any doubt, the mystery comes in form of the motives behind and the messages intended by the murders and the link between the three men (the killer, copycat & the detective). And as the story progress in a three way game of cat and mouse, with some twists & turns it comes to question who the original killer here is actually? Though it’s not up to the level of some recent Korean masterpiece Serial Killer flicks and the flashbacks may turn out to be bit confusing for some viewers but I still liked it pretty much.

>>: B+

zwoti

02-08-2011, 01:06 PM

The legend of the fist: return of chen zhen

Dream

02-10-2011, 07:49 AM

I just watched Creepy Hide and Seek.

Scared me quite abit, very enjoyable.

roshiq

02-12-2011, 02:37 AM

Die a Violent Death (http://asianmediawiki.com/Die_a_Violent_Death) (2010)

A very mediocre Thai anthology.

>>: C

roshiq

02-17-2011, 01:57 AM

2LDK (2003)

A brutal & darkly funny little film about 2 actresses competing for the same role in a movie as their rivalry turns into a deadly cat fight with sad & harrowing consequences.

>>: B+

psycho d

02-19-2011, 07:25 AM

A Snake of June (2002). From the director of Tetsuo, The Iron Man comes A snake of June, a powerhouse of cinema that recklessly throws its audience into an uncomfortable intimacy of a woman's repressed sexuality. The avant-garde feel will probably put off most of the Hollywood set, but for the rest of us this entry by director Shinya Tsukamoto will leave a remarkably indelible mark.

The story starts out innocent enough, but is soon drawn to the hyper-kinetic and surreal realms where torrents of socially oppressed emotion begins to burst through its mightily walled-up dam. This threat remains throughout and is highlighted with the blue-infused black and white photography coupled with the perpetually rainy weather and busy drain plugs. At some point the story takes a hard turn, leaving many viewers in the dust, but this turn is not without the logic found in irrational behavior.

The acting is primarily dominated by the three main characters. Most impressive is Asuka Kurosawa. Her thinly veiled facade is a treat to watch as it finally comes crashing down. Her husband is played by the unprofessional actor Yugi Kohtari. Up against the monumental Asuka, there is no questioning his self-consciousness, but he nonetheless captures the essence of the creepy husband. Actor/director Shinya Tsukomoto wins the creepy award though. Apparently he had wanted to play the part of a stalker for the previous decade or two, and his time spent training for this discomfiting role shines through.

Shinya's directorial style and prowess glares through the cloud-strewn backdrop effortlessly. The hand-held camera is busily searching for the hidden crevices of humanity best left unearthed, at least in the mind of the owner. Shinya's camera is not to be denied, with uncomfortable close-ups and frenetic shots revealing the discombobulated reality hidden behind Japanese courtesy and composure. And just when the perturbations of the camera are settling in, Shinya throws in some rather disturbing imagery for good measure. The result is fantastic, at least for those that could keep up.

The end seemed rather anticlimactic, but maybe it was for the best, allowing the symbolism to once again say that which is impolite to intimate, at least in this confounding land in the east.
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ChronoGrl

02-21-2011, 08:39 AM

Bloody Reunion (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870958/) (2006)

Solid gruesome hack-n-slash from Korea, Bloody Reunion tells the tale of a group of students reuniting at their aging teacher's home. I think that what honestly stands out here is the story and how it's slowly unveiled, like peeling back the skins of an onion - I'm always impressed with a movie who can reveal a back story without painful exposition. Quite frankly, this movie had me on the edge of my seat, wanting to learn more about the histories each student had in their past.

Some people have complained about the ending and, at first, I was amongst them, until I took a moment and thought about it, finally deciding that I liked where we ended up...

Since story-telling is what makes this movie strong, I appreciate that, in the end, it's revealed that the unraveling story was told by an unreliable narrator... Not your average whodunit twist when you realize that the whole first two thirds of the film is a fabrication... I appreciate the direction that they wound up taking with it.

I give it a 3.75/5.

DP McCoy

02-21-2011, 12:48 PM

Confessions - A depressing exploration of moral decline in youth culture,Confessions is the story of a single mother whose small Daughter is found dead in the swimming pool of the school where she teaches.The death of the child is thought to be an accident,however the mother uncovers evidence that it was in fact murder and the culprits are two of her students.
The mother's vengeance is to force the students to confront their own mortality and teach them that actions lead to consequences,this sets into motion a chain reaction of events that has a devastating effect on all those involved.The focus of the storyline shifts as each main character tells their tale(Or confesses),with each confession we learn a little more about what really happened to the teachers little girl and what part each of the characters played in the tragedy.These confessions also unravel the motivations of those involved and provide an unsettling insight into the minds of several damaged individuals.
The themes of the film are presented in a non judgemental way,indeed it was difficult to find any of the characters likeable,each were flawed in their own way,even the bereaved teacher.It is interesting that while the lack of morality in the young people of today is the main theme of the film,it is not only the young people whose morality and conscience is called into question.The film also asks serious questions of the parts played in modern society by parents,teachers and other adults in the development of young people.
Confessions is extremely bleak throughout and is quite relentlessly depressing,however the questions raised are absolutely socially relevent and I found it to be quite compelling. 8/10

roshiq

02-22-2011, 01:06 AM

Assault! Jack the Ripper (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237045/) (1976)

>>: B-

Princess Aurora (http://asianmediawiki.com/Princess_Aurora) (2005)

Another pretty decent Korean revenge flick about a mother who turns into a 'Serial killer' named Princess Aurora after losing her only child who had been abducted, raped & killed by a child molester.

>>: B+

ChronoGrl

02-27-2011, 03:44 PM

I just watched Creepy Hide and Seek.

Scared me quite abit, very enjoyable.

Can you share the IMDB link? I just tried to look it up and there are a few films with the name "Hide and Seek" - I'm interested in looking it up.

...

The Good, The Bad, The Weird (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901487/) (2008)

In a word: Epic. Byung-hun Lee is an absolutely fantastic villain and Kang-ho Song is the perfect foil. Incredibly directed - Funny, exciting... definitely go and check it out if you haven't seen it already.

4.5/5

psycho d

02-28-2011, 07:17 AM

Beyond Hypothermia (1996). This Hong Kong action flick can most tersely be categorized as a stylish crime drama with occasionally cheesy romance punctuated in between. And even the the horrible dubbing (no subs), once I realized the trick of laughing in between bouts of violence, could not keep me from enjoying the wondrous Beyond Hypothermia.

Don't even bother with the story, but instead luxuriate in the action sequences when they come. The traffic scene, for example, has such a gut churning sense of nihilistic reality that uncomfortable laughs become a must. The camera and choreography merge into some ethereal realm that only seems available in Hong Kong, where movies that should be awful instead contain that mystical quality that keeps us coming back for more. So just sit back and prepare your eyes to feast in the wonderfully choreographed bouts of violence. One last warning, for those that cannot deal with cinematic No You Didn't moments beware, Beyond Hypothermia is not saddled with Western conventions.
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DP McCoy

02-28-2011, 01:36 PM

Alien vs Ninja - Didn't expect much from this,didn't get much from this.Homicidal rubbery dinosaur looking aliens do splattery battle with leather clad ninja,not as much fun as you would think. 4/10

newb

03-01-2011, 07:40 AM

Actually made it until the 1 hour mark....then I had to turn it off

too disjointed and apparently an acid trip might have helped.

House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/

neverending

03-01-2011, 09:18 AM

Actually made it until the 1 hour mark....then I had to turn it off

too disjointed and apparently an acid trip might have helped.

House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/

Oh man- that film is AMAZING!

newb

03-01-2011, 09:31 AM

Oh man- that film is AMAZING!

perhaps it was my mood....just couldn't get into it.

psycho d

03-03-2011, 05:53 AM

Oh man- that film is AMAZING!

House (1977) demands some latitude from its audience, but I definitely agree with neverending on this one.
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roshiq

03-05-2011, 05:59 AM

Confessions (http://asianmediawiki.com/Confessions_%282010-Japanese-Movie%29) (2010)

Confessions - A depressing exploration of moral decline in youth culture,Confessions is the story of a single mother whose small Daughter is found dead in the swimming pool of the school where she teaches.The death of the child is thought to be an accident,however the mother uncovers evidence that it was in fact murder and the culprits are two of her students.
The mother's vengeance is to force the students to confront their own mortality and teach them that actions lead to consequences,this sets into motion a chain reaction of events that has a devastating effect on all those involved.The focus of the storyline shifts as each main character tells their tale(Or confesses),with each confession we learn a little more about what really happened to the teachers little girl and what part each of the characters played in the tragedy.These confessions also unravel the motivations of those involved and provide an unsettling insight into the minds of several damaged individuals.
The themes of the film are presented in a non judgemental way,indeed it was difficult to find any of the characters likeable,each were flawed in their own way,even the bereaved teacher.It is interesting that while the lack of morality in the young people of today is the main theme of the film,it is not only the young people whose morality and conscience is called into question.The film also asks serious questions of the parts played in modern society by parents,teachers and other adults in the development of young people.
Confessions is extremely bleak throughout and is quite relentlessly depressing,however the questions raised are absolutely socially relevent and I found it to be quite compelling. 8/10

Totally agree with DP. A stylish, gripping revenge drama from Japan. Liked it,

>>: A-

Angra

03-05-2011, 10:32 AM

Actually made it until the 1 hour mark....then I had to turn it off

too disjointed and apparently an acid trip might have helped.

House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/

I'm with newb.

Too asian-goofy for my taste.

roshiq

03-07-2011, 02:20 AM

The Haunted House Project (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Haunted_House_Project) (2010)

>>: C

Haunted Changi (http://hauntedchangi.com/film/) (2010)

>>: C+

DP McCoy

03-07-2011, 11:51 AM

Confessions (http://asianmediawiki.com/Confessions_%282010-Japanese-Movie%29) (2010)

Totally agree with DP. A stylish, gripping revenge drama from Japan. Liked it,

>>: A-

Glad you liked it too rosh :) I could have lived without the CGI at the end,but aside from that I thought it was a really interesting film.

roshiq

03-12-2011, 01:44 AM

Bedevilled (http://asianmediawiki.com/Bedevilled_%282010-South_Korean_Movie%29) (2010)

Set in a rural island with a very small population, it started like a typical Asian slow-moving drama where it portrays the male dominating illiterate society full with idiots but suddenly in the last-third it turns into a bloody revenge flick. Worth a watch.

>>: B+

nightmare_of _death

03-25-2011, 04:19 AM

Coming Soon (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307057/

You never really know whats going to come next in this,something always seems to be watching you. I liked it,I thought it was better than Ringu. 7/10

psycho d

03-29-2011, 11:19 AM

Ichi (2008). Today's review is fueled by a mastodon migraine that is threatening to evolve into a full blown seizure. But my ailing skull has nothing to do with this wonderful tangent from the original Ichi series. An interesting take for sure, Ichi is its own movie and for detractors to lament that its not another Ichi clone is itself lamentable. Another annoying complaint concerned the bad guys and their over the top antics. These are probably the same clowns that flame Takashi Miike's Yakuza. Personally, I think that these whiners were all PMSing together when they saw it and nothing but ice cream and a litany of complaints could make them happy.

The story was a nicely designed breath of fresh air. While it relied heavy on flashbacks, it was done in such a beautiful fashion that it seemed more an aesthetic marvel than a cinematic crutch. Where some of its characters remain rather flat, it is not so much out of poor storytelling but rather to reveal that character's repressed existence, and this serves to emote that any chink in their psychological armor might cause the whole enchilada to unravel.

The acting sold its characters with aplomb. Haruka Ayase is stunningly beautiful in her role, despite her being callus and emotionally shut down. Takao Ohsawa makes for the perfect underdog whose ultimate archenemy, played in outrageous fashion by Shidô Nakamura, culminates in a denouement that remains true to Japanese culture. The rest of the cast is just as solid, all the way down to the pint-sized custodian of the titular Ichi.

The technicalities were all handled with a subdued precision. The direction definitely gave this movie its own distinction, and Fumihiko Sori was not afraid to deviate from the expected formula in order to create his own version of this classic story. The photography was nothing short of compelling. Some of this movie's detractors may have disparaged this flick as slow due to the camera's determination to linger on a character when his or her emotional outpourings had to first overcome the character's repugnance to show emotional weakness. When there was action, the fight choreography proved to be gripping, smoothly flashing back and forth between standard and slow motion. The CGI blood was a bit ostensible, but the classic genre from which this arose were blatantly obsessed with flying blood so maybe this was more an homage than a smudge. The editing, on the other hand, was not ostensible, and in this case lends weight to a worthy editing crew. The score was fitting, sparse and hauntingly beautiful.

The ending was a sort of compromise from the normal Japanese fatalism, but in this case it leaves its audience fully satisfied to have remained through its two hour runtime.
d

neverending

04-01-2011, 07:46 PM

The Eye 3.

It went over the top a few times, and I was confused by a few comedic moments, but overall I enjoyed the film. Not as good as the first two films though.

BookZombie

04-14-2011, 10:13 AM

I saw Sick Nurses yesterday. In some ways this movie was very good, the ghost effects where nice and there was some spectacular kills. However there was some things which where not so good either, some of the things happening was ridiculous and there where details like where are the other doctors, where are the patients, sure there where a reception with a few people in but there have to be more staff for a huge hospital. There is also a scene where the ghost is stabbed and she turn into a confetti fountain, yes I kid you not, confetti fountain. However all in all I enjoyed this movie.

hammerfan

04-19-2011, 09:00 AM

Godzilla & Mothra: Battle for Earth

ChronoGrl

04-20-2011, 10:22 AM

13: Game of Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0883995/) (2006)

Huh. A weird little horror film, but not always intentionally so.

The good: Thought it was well-directed for the most part. Also liked that it had a dark little twisted sense of humor. I appreciate it when over-the-top horror movies have a sense of humor (especially when the premise is a little ridiculous like, say, participating in a secret game show that requires you to do increasingly weird and insane tasks while simultaneously being hunted down by the police)

The bad: The end was pretty awful. Like Shyamalan faux twist awful. But even beyond that, I'm pretty sure that there was a LOT left on the editing floor which left the movie seem a bit disjointed, especially near that ill-conceived end.

Would I recommend it? To be honest, I'm not sure; I felt so incredibly dissatisfied by its end that I can't say that I would... But it's certainly not the WORST movie that I've ever seen...

Anyone seen this one?

roshiq

04-20-2011, 11:43 PM

13: Game of Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0883995/) (2006)

Huh. A weird little horror film, but not always intentionally so.

The bad: The end was pretty awful. Like Shyamalan faux twist awful. But even beyond that, I'm pretty sure that there was a LOT left on the editing floor which left the movie seem a bit disjointed, especially near that ill-conceived end.

Ditto. I have seen it & didn't like it. Watching someone eating human shit is the most disgusting thing for me. :mad:

ChronoGrl

04-21-2011, 05:46 AM

Ditto. I have seen it & didn't like it. Watching someone eating human shit is the most disgusting thing for me. :mad:

Yeah, that really made me ill... I'm trying to get that part out of my head... bleah :(

Diabolical

04-21-2011, 06:15 AM

fuk man, im eating right now!

ChronoGrl

04-21-2011, 09:31 AM

fuk man, im eating right now!

Eating poo?

Ferox13

04-21-2011, 11:57 PM

http://img.affenheimtheater.de/cover_br/cover_i_saw_the_devil_de.jpg

Really good if a little long...

ChronoGrl

04-22-2011, 07:10 AM

http://img.affenheimtheater.de/cover_br/cover_i_saw_the_devil_de.jpg

Really good if a little long...

SO excited to get my hands on this...

BookZombie

04-22-2011, 07:17 AM

The cover seams interesting though I have never heard about this movie before, what is it about?

roshiq

04-28-2011, 12:17 AM

Hayno aka The Housemaid (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Housemaid_%281960-South_Korea%29) (1960)

This is a great psycho-sexual tensed drama cum thriller with a touch of typical Asian regular soap opera or domestic melodrama which superbly directed by Kim Ki-Young as his first film in Housemaid trilogy. It still consider as one of the most popular & significant films for Korean cinema. It has been described in Koreanfilm.org as a "consensus pick as one of the top three Korean films of all time." Martin Scorsese and some other American sponsors even funded a complete restoration of the old print. And last year it was remade with same title in Korea also. Overall, a bit shocking flick indeed considering as a 60's Korean film.

>>: A-

Fearonsarms

04-28-2011, 06:36 AM

The cover seams interesting though I have never heard about this movie before, what is it about?

I don't think you would like it-its a serial killer flick

zwoti

04-29-2011, 03:17 AM

the man from nowhere.

zwoti

05-01-2011, 03:02 PM

71 - into the fire

roshiq

05-04-2011, 12:09 PM

Jigoku aka Hell (1960)

Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku is a purely an unwanted but inevitable experience that the central character Shiro endured even in life. It's a lyrical and poetic work of film making that explains hell is something we carry with us throughout life, complete with inescapable personal demons that haunt us every step of the way. Director Nakagawa explores a man's guilt, fate, regret, and even redemption on the road to hell.
The film's most effective and infamous sequence involves the visceral punishment waiting for various sinners. Bodies are dissected, flayed, made to wander in a 'vortex of sin,' and cast into a lake of fire, the needle lake & among other things. And through these torments of Hell, Jigoku reveals just how ahead of its time it was, as the violence is stark and disturbing which made it still even by today's standards very much graphic indeed. Surely it must be one of the earliest gore and shock films in world cinema, as it's like all the remorseless sequences cuts right to the heart of why we're told that we should be afraid of hell in the first place. Nakahawa emphasized horrors on psychological turmoil where ultimately the body will endure endless suffering for sin. I’m not sure how many films out there that portrayed 'Hell' so abstract way & effectively like Jigoku, where going to hell may never been so satisfying!

As I downloaded & watched the Criterion DVD release so got the chance to checked out the documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film (Building the Inferno), where they mention some of Nakagawa's early horror or kaidan (ghost) films, like The Ghost of Kasane (Kaidan Kasanegafuchi, 1957), Black Cat Mansion (Borei Kaibyo Yashiki, 1958) and The Ghost Story of Yotsuya / Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, 1959)...and by some clips & screen shots they all looked pretty creepy & fascinating also. I’ll definitely love to see these movies in future but not sure whether the dvds of the films are available or not.

>>: A

Fearonsarms

05-06-2011, 01:02 PM

I adore Jigoku but alas that is the only film by that director I have seen. I too would love to see his other films having seen screenshots on the dvd.

Empress_Of_Drac

05-08-2011, 04:52 AM

Child's Eye starred by Yang Cheng Lin. Still watching it at the moment. Will post my review after I finished this.

Child's Eye is produced by the famous Pang Brothers.

zwoti

05-20-2011, 10:00 AM

little big soldier
sparrow
woochi

roshiq

05-21-2011, 10:06 AM

Kuroneko aka The Black Cat (1968)

Not as great as Onibaba but surely it's an eerie-atmospheric J-Horror classic with a Samurai-revenge-ghost story.

>>: A-

juampa

05-24-2011, 01:06 PM

This is the movie I saw, is a remake of the asian movie "THE GRUDGE" with SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR.

Angra

05-24-2011, 01:09 PM

This is the movie I saw, is a remake of the asian movie "THE GRUDGE" with SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR.

So why are you posting it here? :cool:

You're such a noob. :rolleyes:

Welcome.

The Villain

05-24-2011, 01:10 PM

This is the movie I saw, is a remake of the asian movie "THE GRUDGE" with SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR.

Your post is kinda confusing. Do you mean you watched Ju-On or the American version?

juampa

05-26-2011, 06:40 PM

Sorry, I wanted to mean the remake.

Empress_Of_Drac

05-26-2011, 09:38 PM

Reincarnation is one of the best Japanase Horror movies I've seen. I love the twists though the ending is rather tragic.

The Villain

05-27-2011, 09:45 AM

Sorry, I wanted to mean the remake.

Well thats not an Asian movie then. Good movie for a remake though

newb

06-16-2011, 06:53 PM

CHAWZ

Very entertaining with more humor than the trailer lets on

y-Xy-JIX-OY

ChronoGrl

06-18-2011, 05:59 AM

CHAWZ

Very entertaining with more humor than the trailer lets on

y-Xy-JIX-OY

Oh, wow, that looks fantastic - LOL - Thanks for the rec. :D

zwoti

06-19-2011, 02:46 AM

14 blades.

ChronoGrl

06-19-2011, 07:01 AM

CHAWS

Agree totally with Newb - An utter blast with humor sprinkled in. Loved the overt references to Jaws and Spielberg in general. Recommended if you're looking for a fun "big creature" movie of the same ilk of, say, Lake Placid.

3/5.

DP McCoy

06-19-2011, 10:44 AM

Bangkok Knockout -

Not bad,decent Jaa style fight scenes (But not as good),hokey storyline and bad acting. 6/10

LadyHatchet2010

06-21-2011, 05:46 PM

The last Asian horror film that I saw was "Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman"

Came across it late one night on the instant Netflix.

I liked it. It was awfully intense and made me feel uneasy...after watching it, I found myself wanting to leave the lights on when I walked upstairs to my room for bed.

I've always liked foreign horror films. They're so odd and off the wall and they always make me feel uneasy which I think is a great thing for me. Not a lot of horror films nowadays don't really give me that sense of uneasiness and I love that in my modern films especially the foreign films...

It had just the right amount of gore in it too but not over the top. The sudden shots of the slit mouthed woman's face was awesome too...

That's probably a very cliche thing to say but I can't help it. The violence always gets to me...I guess it's just that primal thing...

ABjerg

06-23-2011, 02:43 PM

I love these japanese horrors.. Those ppl know how to scare for sure!

I loved The Grudge 2 and One Missed Call 2, haven't got a chance to see nr. 1 of those, lmao, I FAIL I know, but I'll see em some day.

They know for sure how to make a good horror with a great concept.

The Ring
Shutter
The Grudge
One Missed Call
etc.

The Villain

06-23-2011, 02:56 PM

ABjerg

06-23-2011, 03:00 PM

I've seen all the American versions of those but only the Japanese One Missed Call. Man that was freaky.
My time to go "DUDE, YOU GOT SOME MOVIES TO WATCH!" :D:D

Kidding, but for real, watch the japanese versions! -A lot scarier than the american remakes. A LOT.

The Villain

06-23-2011, 03:02 PM

My time to go "DUDE, YOU GOT SOME MOVIES TO WATCH!" :D:D

Kidding, but for real, watch the japanese versions! -A lot scarier than the american remakes. A LOT.

Haha yeah, believe me they're on my list. I was watching foreign horror movies a lot for awhile but then started to watch some old sci-fi movies before i got to those. I watch horror movies in sections almost.

ABjerg

06-23-2011, 03:04 PM

Haha yeah, believe me they're on my list. I was watching foreign horror movies a lot for awhile but then started to watch some old sci-fi movies before i got to those. I watch horror movies in sections almost.
haha, okay then. :)

hammerfan

06-23-2011, 03:04 PM

Villain, I can't remember if it was discussed: have you seen Reincarnation yet? If not, I highly recommend it.

ABjerg

06-23-2011, 03:07 PM

Villain, I can't remember if it was discussed: have you seen Reincarnation yet? If not, I highly recommend it.
What year was it released? -Just wanna make sure I check out the right one! :D

hammerfan

06-23-2011, 03:10 PM

What year was it released? -Just wanna make sure I check out the right one! :D

It was released in 2005.

ABjerg

06-23-2011, 03:14 PM

It was released in 2005.
aight, I think I'm looking at the right one then, thanx. :D

The Villain

06-23-2011, 10:25 PM

Villain, I can't remember if it was discussed: have you seen Reincarnation yet? If not, I highly recommend it.

No actually i havent. I've been meaning to see it since i wanted to watch all the Horrorfest movies and i've been hearing really good things about that one. That year was the only one i didnt see all of them.

ChronoGrl

06-25-2011, 08:32 PM

I've seen all the American versions of those but only the Japanese One Missed Call. Man that was freaky.

Ooo - ooo - The original Ringu is so incredibly creepy... The remake pales in comparison... Same thing with Shutter... But the original Ringu... Good stuff.

I actually like the Grudge remake better; it's by the same director and I feel with the remake he could make some editorial choices that I thought worked... The end was very silly though...

Villain, I can't remember if it was discussed: have you seen Reincarnation yet? If not, I highly recommend it.

Ditto. Same guy who did The Grudge. Good stuff.

...

Watched R-Point tonight...

The pros: Definitely atmospheric and all of the characters were definitely human. Good creepy moments.

The cons: Definitely a slow-burner, which is not generally a draw-back, but my ankle was bothering me so I had a hard time sitting still. Would up getting bored. Ultimately, didn't really feel like anything NEW to me. I think that even if I were feeling better, it probably wouldn't have been over a 3 out of 5. Or maybe I'm just turning into a jaded horror viewer...

The Villain

06-26-2011, 05:04 AM

Ooo - ooo - The original Ringu is so incredibly creepy... The remake pales in comparison... Same thing with Shutter... But the original Ringu... Good stuff.

I actually like the Grudge remake better; it's by the same director and I feel with the remake he could make some editorial choices that I thought worked... The end was very silly though...

Yeah i gotta check those out and i agree, the ending of The Grudge just wasnt needed. They always have to go a step too far dont they.

leezuki

06-28-2011, 07:43 AM

tale of two sisters, really good but i had to watch it bout 3 times to try and understand what the story was about.

Fearonsarms

06-28-2011, 12:40 PM

I second the recs of the original Ringu (and Ringu2), Shutter etc. Also second the recs of Reincarnation and Tale Of Two Sisters.

I agree that RPoint is very atmospheric but a bit so-so to the die hards like us.

roshiq

07-06-2011, 11:35 AM

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)

Liked its mystery thriller kind of pattern. But that guy should straight went to the island first rather than screwing the ladies in the house. The last scene was hilarious.:D

>>: B

Revenge: A Love Story (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778258/) (2010)

A very decent gruesome revenge thriller from Hong Kong with a simple story. Liked the ending.

>>: B+

leezuki

07-19-2011, 03:53 AM

i just watched hansel and gretel i have to make one of my fave movies,really good movie.

The Villain

07-24-2011, 08:36 PM

Ju-On: The Grudge

This is so much better then the American version. With the american one, the little boy was never able to freak me out but he did in this one. Plus the story is so much better. The american one just seems so dumbed down now as if they thought people wouldnt be able to understand the timeline. The ending is so much better too.

leezuki

07-25-2011, 04:44 AM

The Villain

07-25-2011, 05:42 AM

only seen the american one,i thought it wasn't supossed to be any different ?

The progression was some what the same but Ju-On had a bunch of different stories and a more eschewed although more interesting timeline and the American one reduced the stories and even cut some out. Also the ending is different and the characters.

leezuki

07-25-2011, 06:20 AM

The progression was some what the same but Ju-On had a bunch of different stories and a more eschewed although more interesting timeline and the American one reduced the stories and even cut some out. Also the ending is different and the characters.

i will have to watch it,i just thought it was going to just be the same.been wanting to watch it anyway.

leezuki

07-25-2011, 06:21 AM

hansel and gretel is worth a watch :)

The Villain

07-25-2011, 06:26 AM

hansel and gretel is worth a watch :)

I just looked it up. That does sound pretty cool. Ill have to check that out

leezuki

07-25-2011, 07:00 AM

it is mate,i know i keep going on about it :D

The Villain

07-25-2011, 07:23 AM

Nothing wrong with that, you like it. I'll let you know what i think

Nini_luv5

07-26-2011, 12:42 AM

8 films to die for: Reincarnation

leezuki

07-27-2011, 11:25 PM

i watched the way home,very good movie ;)

Anthropophagus

07-28-2011, 10:16 AM

i just watched hansel and gretel i have to make one of my fave movies,really good movie.

I have been meaning to watch this flic for some time now and still havent seen it.

leezuki

07-29-2011, 03:39 AM

I have been meaning to watch this flic for some time now and still havent seen it.

give it a go,a bit slow but it picks up :)

leezuki

07-29-2011, 03:41 AM

i watched aftershock,very good movie.

roshiq

08-01-2011, 10:37 AM

The Unjust (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Unjust) (2010)

A good crime thriller center around rivalry between a Police officer & a prosecutor. The interesting part is there's no definite 'good guy' in this movie. Liked it. It won't be surprising if there's a Hollywood remake comes out in future.

>>: B+

Gothic & Lolita Psycho (http://asianmediawiki.com/Gothic_%26_Lolita_Psycho) (2010)

Typical Japanese splatter fest revenge plot. Quite simple & funny. Liked the little twist at the ending. At least better than VG vs FG.

>>: B-

leezuki

08-03-2011, 03:08 AM

forbidden door indonesian horror. very good movie.

leezuki

08-04-2011, 04:56 AM

i watched darah last night, and have to say it was a good slasher, blood and gore movie.

good fun check it out

http://www.gv.com.sg/moviedetails/gv_moviedetails_2727.jsp

hammerfan

08-05-2011, 12:47 PM

Ju-on: White Ghost/Black Ghost

leezuki

08-08-2011, 08:07 AM

brotherhood, good movie.

leezuki

08-09-2011, 08:45 AM

this movie is very good, if u like ju on or sixth sense then i would advise to watch this movie.

the maid

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474791/

The Villain

08-09-2011, 03:00 PM

this movie is very good, if u like ju on or sixth sense then i would advise to watch this movie.

the maid

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474791/

Sounds good. I'm gonna check it out

leezuki

08-10-2011, 02:08 AM

Sounds good. I'm gonna check it out

yeah it is good, i wont say it is as good as ju on, a bit slow to start but i really got into it after a while, i want to buy it.

a really good movie i would recommend is a thai movie called dorm, it's very freekey.

http://myasiancinema.com/thai-movie-dorm-2006/

leezuki

08-14-2011, 09:36 AM

the housemaid, very good movie.

semene

08-15-2011, 12:36 AM

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

I loved it, especially with the NIN music.

I'm about to watch the original too.

ChronoGrl

08-17-2011, 05:32 PM

Ju-on: White Ghost/Black Ghost

What did you think?

hammerfan

08-18-2011, 04:20 AM

What did you think?

It was OK. I wasn't blown away by it or creeped out by it at all. The makeup on the ghost was terrible. Very cartoonish.

ChronoGrl

08-18-2011, 05:48 AM

It was OK. I wasn't blown away by it or creeped out by it at all. The makeup on the ghost was terrible. Very cartoonish.

Oof. I think I'll skip it, then. ;)

hammerfan

08-18-2011, 06:05 AM

Oof. I think I'll skip it, then. ;)

I didn't want to just come out and say it, but yeah, you're probably better off skipping it.

Hey, how's the leg?

ChronoGrl

08-18-2011, 07:30 AM

I didn't want to just come out and say it, but yeah, you're probably better off skipping it.

Hey, how's the leg?

Doing much better, thank you! I can wear heels now. ;)

How are you doing? Get that cool tat yet??

hammerfan

08-18-2011, 07:38 AM

That's awesome! I'm glad you're all healed now!

No tat yet....I'll post a pic when I DO get it.

leezuki

08-18-2011, 08:44 AM

That's awesome! I'm glad you're all healed now!

No tat yet....I'll post a pic when I DO get it.

what tat u getting hammer ?

hammerfan

08-18-2011, 08:49 AM

what tat u getting hammer ?

This one:

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33520&page=18

leezuki

08-18-2011, 08:52 AM

This one:

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33520&page=18

i like that, looks very nice. do u like kats.

hammerfan

08-18-2011, 09:05 AM

i like that, looks very nice. do u like kats.

:D Just a little :D

ChronoGrl

08-18-2011, 12:46 PM

i like that, looks very nice. do u like kats.

LOL - No, she's definitely a dog person. :rolleyes::p

hammerfan

08-18-2011, 12:52 PM

LOL - No, she's definitely a dog person. :rolleyes::p

ROFLMAO! Sorry, lee, if it seems like we're making fun. Most people on this forum know that I'm a CCL (Crazy Cat Lady).

leezuki

08-18-2011, 02:08 PM

ROFLMAO! Sorry, lee, if it seems like we're making fun. Most people on this forum know that I'm a CCL (Crazy Cat Lady).

:D:D:D:D that's fine ;)

leezuki

08-19-2011, 11:55 AM

grotesque

biggest load of rubbish i have ever watched, wasted 90 mins of my life on this :mad:

The Villain

08-19-2011, 03:01 PM

Jigoku

This movie took me a couple days to watch because i fell asleep three times just trying to get through it. It takes forever to get to the point, a whole hour goes by before we get to Hell which would be fine for story building but everything that happens before is so pointless and ridiculous that it just drags on. The characters are over the top and annoying and it took everything i had to not turn the movie off during one of the film's many bouts of overacting. I dont understand why the main character is even in Hell. It seems like he is sent there for being unlucky. Everything that happens to him isnt his fault at all. The part of the movie in Hell is really stupid although it was an interesting view on it. I never thought a horror movie about Hell would be so artsy and pretentious though.

leezuki

08-20-2011, 01:02 AM

The Villain

08-20-2011, 08:53 AM

u did better than me, i turned it of after half hour.

I considered it but i really wanted to know what their idea of Hell was

leezuki

08-22-2011, 01:19 PM

my girl and i

had to watch it with my wife, nice romantic movie.

Angra

08-22-2011, 05:27 PM

u did better than me, i turned it of after half hour.

Have you seen Ghost Train?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819839/

I thought that was a pretty good "hell" movie. Or what the hell it was at the end??

The Villain

08-22-2011, 05:38 PM

Have you seen Ghost Train?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819839/

I thought that was a pretty good "hell" movie. Or what the hell it was at the end??

Thanks, i'll check it out and let you know what i think.

leezuki

08-23-2011, 03:59 AM

Have you seen Ghost Train?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819839/

I thought that was a pretty good "hell" movie. Or what the hell it was at the end??

if that is the korean movie u are on bout yes, i thought it was very good.

Angra

08-23-2011, 07:13 AM

if that is the korean movie u are on bout yes, i thought it was very good.

I believe it's japanese actually.

leezuki

08-23-2011, 09:56 AM

I believe it's japanese actually.

yeah u r right, i not seen that one i was thinking of red eye.
i will check ghost train out, cheers dude.
check red eye out.

Angra

08-23-2011, 10:25 AM

yeah u r right, i not seen that one i was thinking of red eye.
i will check ghost train out, cheers dude.
check red eye out.

I have. It sucked. But thanks.

leezuki

08-23-2011, 10:31 AM

I have. It sucked. But thanks.

haha lol same as what i thought heathen ;)

leezuki

08-24-2011, 12:42 AM

Kikujiro

this was a very nice movie.

ChronoGrl

09-06-2011, 05:26 PM

I Saw the Devil (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588170/) (2010)

FINALLY got around to watching this movie and... Wow.

To say that I was impressed - To say that my jaw dropped a few times - To say that that held some of the some of the best performances that I've ever seen... All understatements.

As it's been mentioned, part of what makes this movie so incredibly powerful are the intense and gripping performances by Min-sik Choi (absolutely chilling) and Byung-hun Lee (agonizingly biting) - I was particularly impressed with the latter, who shines as the haunted victim, resolute on revenge. His fierce and unblinking demeanor was horrifying as he descends into tragic anti-hero-dom.

In terms of direction, each scene was filmed with deliberate ease. The writing and the story and the ending - oh God the superlative ending - All well done. This tale unravels slowly, with delightfully shocking peaks and climaxes until the pinnacle scene of perfect vengeance... My jaw did truly drop a few times... Great suspense and action interlaced with poetic tragic drama - Definitely an epic Korean Revenge flick, up there with The Vengeance Trilogy, though less playful.

Fantastic film - HIGHLY recommended.

5/5.

The Villain

09-09-2011, 05:56 PM

Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster

After a hard day, sitting down with a beer and watching a Godzilla movie is exactly what i needed. No matter how stupid and silly these movies can be at times i love them. They are why i love giant monster movies.

roshiq

09-10-2011, 12:15 PM

Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Nights (2010)

While the American PA2 was a parallel prequel story of the original but this one is a sequel where the events happens around with a Japanese brother & sister. Haruka (the sister) has returned to Tokyo after getting involved in a severe car accident in San Diego, California where she was studying. She broke both of her legs in the car crash and is now recuperating at her younger brother Koichi's house in Tokyo. Now that accidents actually connect it with the original PA as news report says that Haruka hit Katie with her car in that accident as Katie was running away after "killing" her boyfriend, Micah. Haruka guessed that the supposed demon that possessed Katie has now latched on to her (& fly over to Tokyo with her without having a visa or even a plane ticket!:D).

There are some solid creepy encounters here also, especially there's a nice scene when the Haruka was pulled by her hair and dragged from the bed, somewhat like dragging Katie's ankle from the bed in the original. But the ending is here overdone, they tried to show too much, IMO. Especially I don't get who's corpse was it in the morgue?

Not a bad entry for the series, kinda interesting but obviously could have been better.

>>: B-

Weredolphin

09-10-2011, 10:55 PM

Actually sat down and watched Audition. It was good psychological suspense drama. More of a gross-out horror film than a "I can't sleep tonight" film. Recommended for the great writing. =)

neverending

09-21-2011, 11:35 AM

roshiq

09-22-2011, 02:40 AM

Death Bell

Set in a school among a class of "elite students" that are being killed off one by one in various grisly methods, for some unknown reason.

This is the first Asian film I've watched that didn't thoroughly enthrall me. I found it to be rather mundane, though it was well acted and directed,. It just didn't capture my imagination. It didn't have the layers of subtext I'm used to discovering in Asian cinema.

Oh, that's just a decent slasher with some SAW flavor.

You should check out the following...I'm not assuring completely but at least some of them will give you some good hour of entertainment as well as 'something' to think about:

Cold Fish
The Chaser
I saw the devil
Our Town
Revenge: A Love story
The Unjust
Princess Aurora

The interesting thing is you may see a trend in the recent Asian movies...particularly in Korean films: the rising genre of Serial Killer films. Few months back I tried to do some online research to find out why there are so many movies about serial killer are coming now from Asia...(particularly Korea) today? We only know about 2 films that inspired by real life serial killer cases (Memories of Murder & The Chaser) but what's the actual reasons for the film makers that's inspiring them to go with this genre more often? Is there really any social context or scenario of serial killers in Korea that made some sort of affects on cinema??

At first I couldn't find any single article about this particular topic. But I even tried to make a contact (via e-mail & facebook) with Dr. Colette Balmain (http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/show_people.php?id=65&type=assoc), who is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Buckinghamshire New University, UK and the author of An Introduction to Japanese Horror Film (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Japanese-Horror-Colette-Balmain/dp/0748624759) (I wish I could buy it). But I guess she didn't feel comfortable to discuss or spoil the subject matter as she is currently writing her second book which is a history of Korean horror film under the working title..."South Korean Horror Cinema: history, memory and Identity (Fisher Imprints: 2012)".

Anyway, then I visited some Asian online forums where people mostly like to discuss about Asian cinema (particularly Japanese, Korean, Chinese & Thai movies) and I raised this question there. In only one forum there are some nice fellas who finally gave me some ideas (http://www.fareastfilms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&p=10321).

neverending

09-22-2011, 09:16 AM

Roshiq the detective!

Bluequiet

09-27-2011, 06:30 PM

I just saw Shutter and Dark Water recently, but most noteworthy I saw the lesser known Occult [The Unidentified] (2009) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1395135/).

It was pretty good, with one major concern that I perhaps spend too much time rehashing here.

Fearonsarms

09-27-2011, 10:21 PM

Just saw Shikoku-it had a great story but itis score was a bit too uneven and the production was a little heavy handed but worth watching

ChronoGrl

09-30-2011, 10:26 AM

Interesting discussion, Roshiq - Interesting thoughts on the Far East Films discussion board as well.

...

Dream Home (2010): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407972/

meh - There are so many positive reviews on this on Netflix that it leads me to believe that there are people on here who would really like this movie... Roshiq - this may be something that you'd want to check out.

For me, though, I'm not sure if I was in the mood or what, but it didn't really do anything for me - I was bored really by the story.

On the plus side, it had some of the most grizzly and inventive murder scenes that I've seen in a while.

roshiq

09-30-2011, 10:33 AM

Yup..I have seen Dream Home and you're right, I really loved it.:)

Q...

10-02-2011, 07:02 AM

Last Asian film I saw was Cello. Not great. For all your cello related film needs, I'd recommend Strange Circus instead!

roshiq

10-24-2011, 12:46 AM

Angel Dust (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109733/) (1994)

>>: B-

Empire of Passion (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077132/) (1978)

>>: B+

roshiq

11-01-2011, 01:27 AM

The Child's Eye (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Child%27s_Eye) (2010)

A very lame film from Pang Brothers (The Eye, Re-Cycle).

>>: C-

ryandnnll

11-01-2011, 03:23 PM

The Child's Eye (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Child%27s_Eye) (2010)

A very lame film from Pang Brothers (The Eye, Re-Cycle).

>>: C-

Certainly compared to this one that you just mentioned Godzilla was great. I'd say that by itself, the godzilla movies of the sixties is not only an epic classic but a great inspiration for writers like myself.

The remake of the movie however the recent one, blows you away when you compare the two but the classic one and the recent one. The sixties outfits and the sixties japanese drama was enough to make an impression on me(the looks on the actors faces.)

Angra

11-02-2011, 11:40 AM

Certainly compared to this one that you just mentioned Godzilla was great. I'd say that by itself, the godzilla movies of the sixties is not only an epic classic but a great inspiration for writers like myself.

The remake of the movie however the recent one, blows you away when you compare the two but the classic one and the recent one. The sixties outfits and the sixties japanese drama was enough to make an impression on me(the looks on the actors faces.)

You MUST be quoting the wrong post??

Angra

11-02-2011, 11:41 AM

The Child's Eye (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Child%27s_Eye) (2010)

A very lame film from Pang Brothers (The Eye, Re-Cycle).

>>: C-

Sounds like Shimizus Shock Labyrinth.

Fearonsarms

11-03-2011, 06:32 PM

Phone-ok it had a decent back story but as well as irritating the hell out of you with the constant ringing phones in the first half it is also frankly not very exciting-maybe I expected too much from this but I wasn't impressed.

tuleven

11-04-2011, 05:01 AM

if yer talking all asian cinema, the last film i watched was 'i'm a cyborg, so what?'. if jes horror, i watched meatball machine about a week ago. i... think it was horror. it was like live-action anime. there's prolly a word for the genre, but i'm not aware of it. like... machine girl. or hard revenge milly. or frankenstein girl versus vampire girl. or tokyo gore police. man i love those movies.

roshiq

11-10-2011, 10:15 AM

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment & Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)

Pointless showcase of torture & gore. The 2nd one at least got a some sort of story but the first one was weird, just weird.

Fearonsarms

11-16-2011, 04:19 AM

Pulse(Kairo)-finally saw this and was well impressed-hugely atmospheric and maintains it's mystique right through to the end with a lot for your brain to chew on. Recommended.

roshiq

11-19-2011, 12:21 AM

Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan aka The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155278/) (1959)

Based on Yotsuya Kaidan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuya_Kaidan), the most famous Japanese folk tale or Kaidan of all time, this wonderfully creepy gem of Gothic J-Horror cinema was directed by Nobuo Nakagawa (the maker of 1960 masterpiece Jigoku aka The Sinners of Hell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigoku_%28film%29)). Considering its time of release, it was surely quite unbelievably creepy & gory for the audience back at that time. Along with great Nakagawa's fantastic style of film making where we can see Bava like continuously changing colorful screens & brilliant use of lights & shadows, this film also comes with some awesomely creepy set pieces, i.e. freaking ghosts rising from the ground or peering down from the ceiling!

Like its more than hundred years old original story (which mainly written as a Kabuki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki) play), the film is mostly filled with typical Asian melodrama where characters grows in the 1st half but 2nd half strikes with violence & ghostly encounters.

Overall, a must see for the fans of Gothic horror & J-Horror.

Although the story has been adapted to film many times in Japan but this is generally considered the finest screen adaptation of the story as well as Nakagawa is considered to have been Japan's first great horror film director. Besides having provided his critically acclaimed Jigoku and this best version of the Yotsuya ghost story, he also directed Kaiden hebi-onna (Ghost Story of a Snake Woman, 1961), Onna kyuketsuki (Lady Vampire, 1959), Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (The Ghost of Kasane,1957) & Borei kaibyo yashiki (Black Cat Mansion, 1958)....Damn! These all movies have now become hard-to-find films in most of the parts of the world & also in the torrent sites. Acclaimed video-distribution companies like Criterion or Blue Underground very much need to release A complete Nakagawa Horror Collection asap, IMO.

>>: A-

Kyofu aka The Sylvian Experiments (http://asianmediawiki.com/Kyofu_%28J-Horror_Theater_Vol._6%29) (2010)

A pretty slow and uninspired J-Horror, don't bother.

>>: C