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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.) |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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.
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Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan aka The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
Based on 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). 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 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 (2010) A pretty slow and uninspired J-Horror, don't bother. >>: C |
The Red Shoes (2005)
I remember thinking this was a pretty decent little Korean horror flick the first time I saw it... Tried watching it again the other week and just found it boooooooooooring. |
Battle Royale
Holy shit this was awesome. The action, the great individual characters and all the different stories really make this a fun exciting watch. I can't believe it's taken me this long to see it. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588170/
I Saw The Devil - absolutely brutal revenge flick. amazing story, gore and action. highly recommend it. "Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer." |
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ip man 2
i love the first one, the 2nd one is good but not as good as the first. |
Aftershock
This is a very touching and emotional movie but i wished they hadn't skipped over two moments i was waiting for practically the whole movie. It would have been much more emotional and dramatic if they had decided to show them. Still this is a very good movie. The Earthquake scene in the beginning and the disaster scene near the end are done very well and are very complimentary to each other. |
shaolin
confucius battle of wits |
The Black House (Kuroi Ie)-Despite it's misleading title this is not supernatural J-Horror- It's a very slow burner though but is rewarding if you persevere with it. It's about the lengths people will go to obtain huge insurance company payouts. Also it throws in a bit of psychological philosophy for good measure.
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flowers of flesh and blood, was ok.
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Ju-on and Ringu :)
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Tomie (1999)
At the beginning it seems like it's got an interesting creepy story but at the end it just turned out another average J-horror flick. >>: C Tomie: Another Face (1999) 3 part Tomie-anthology. First 2 are pretty weak entries filled with poor acting from some amateur young cast members. 3rd one wasn't better either. Overall, pretty disappointing. >>: C- |
recently watched a series of movies called Deathnote and just bought Helldriver.
Deathnote was nifty, but i got wasted when i watched them so they kinda blurred together. i'm pretty sure there were three movies, and they all kept my interest through the marathon. i think it was a supernatural mystery. i don't want to go more in-depth with a review because i'm sure what all was clutch to the story and don't wanna ruin it for anyone, but i would suggest it if yer into foreign films. Helldriver was... action/gore... live-action anime. i'm in love with this type of movie right now. i'd like to know what that genre is called, if anyone knows what i'm talking about; also taking any suggestions! (have seen machine girl, tokyo gore police, hard revenge milly/bloody battle, vampire girl versus frankenstein girl. coming in the mail will be Vampire Effect and Attack Girls' Swim Team versus the Undead.) |
The Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Villainy
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Strange Circus-I'm not really sure about this one. It is worth seeing but it does drag at times-I guess the final third makes up for it.
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Premonition/Yogen (2004) Nothing like the mention of "Akashic Records" to get my attention. So had to see this. It concerns a "newspaper of terror" which shows those who can see it headlines of impending death. It's plot has been done before but I was impressed by its appropriate minimal score mainly using sound effects. However I expected more atmosphere given its subject matter which was serverely lacking compared to other japanese horrors. Worth watching but there's better japanese horrors out there.
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To Sir, with Love / Bloody Reunion (in the US). A Korean horror movie. It's not that good. The funniest sequence is when a cop goes into a room with a bat. I never knew bats were standard police equipment...Just a strange movie with bad camera moves in the opening and a twist that most won't believe.
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GANTZ :) a lot of action and blood, good one!
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Uzumaki/Vortex-I found this film to sound more exciting than it actuslly was-you could never call it gripping or thrilling. However you can tell a lot of work went into it to create the bizarre effects and they were worth sticking around for. But the film doesn't really go anywhere and gives the impression of being made up as they went along plus its only with intense observation that you notice the subtleties of it most would probably be missed. Approach with caution.
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One Missed Call, can't quite remember the Japanese name, but it was a while back.
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The Intruder (2010)
An apartment complex overrun by vicious killer cobras (mostly done by CGI). A very average trashy flick with a bunch of stupid & annoying characters. >>: C- |
Chakusin Ari (One Missed Call), good one! I got chills, and I never get "chills":cool:
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Grotesque
Haven't watched much Japanese stuff but a mate told me about this film japanese film 'grotesque' being banned. Too disgusting.. Looked it up... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(2009_film)
Has anyone seen it? The sick kid inside of me wants to grab some popcorn and get stuck in. |
true legend
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Guilty of Romance (2011)
A sad erotic drama-thriller from Sion Sono....the director of Cold Fish, Strange Circus & Suicide Club. Disappointed. >>: B- |
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Weird & funny but not as good as the original 1998 South Korean film The Quiet Family. >>: B Human Pork Chop (2001) The film begins with the gruesome discovery of the bones and body parts of a missing woman. The police arrest the top suspects and drag them in for questioning. After a little bullying and persuasion, we are gradually told in flashback how the poor victim met her awful fate. The girl in question was a drug-addicted prostitute who foolishly stole some money from a vicious pimp. When discovered, she is kidnapped, imprisoned, humiliated, degraded, tortured, and finally killed. A low budget torture flick from Hong Kong. Not bad but there's some disgustingly disturbing elements like forcing the victim to eat shit in the toilet! >>: C+ |
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