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

House (1977) demands some latitude from its audience, but I definitely agree with neverending on this one.
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Confessions (2010)

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

>>: A-

I'm with newb.

Too asian-goofy for my taste.

The Haunted House Project (2010)

>>: C

Haunted Changi (2010)

>>: C+

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.

Bedevilled (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+

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

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.
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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.

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.

Godzilla & Mothra: Battle for Earth

13: Game of Death (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?

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 :(

fuk man, im eating right now!

Eating poo?

http://img.affenheimtheater.de/cover...e_devil_de.jpg

Really good if a little long...

SO excited to get my hands on this...

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

Hayno aka The Housemaid (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-

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

the man from nowhere.

71 - into the fire

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

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.

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.

little big soldier
sparrow
woochi

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-

The grudge
 

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.

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

The grudge
 

Sorry, I wanted to mean the remake.

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

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

CHAWZ

Very entertaining with more humor than the trailer lets on

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

14 blades.

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.

Bangkok Knockout -

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