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The Traffickers (2012) 7/10
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Recently I re-watched Battle Royale.
It's still an awesome movie. One of the films that initially got me hooked on Asian cinema. I'm currently editing a video review of it for my YouTube channel. If you haven't seen Battle Royale, I highly recommend it. Avoid Battle Royale 2: Requiem... That movie kinda sucks! |
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The two films share only one similarity and in tone, story and theme they are completely different. Battle Royale is obviously the better of the two anyway. ::wink:: |
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Goksung aka The Wailing (2016)
https://s11.postimg.org/bcqvi80bn/Wailing.jpg From the director of THE CHASER (2008), this is a fascinating exploration on Good Vs Evil or the never ending duel between Devil & God that fuels through exploitation of human faith & disbelief. Set in a rural Korean village, Goksung where a strange series of horrifying sickness begins to haunt in an epidemic manner from one household to another and every time that ends up with people killing each other (family or neighbors) gruesomely. An ordinary policeman is drawn into the mystery and is forced to solve it when his daughter starts to show the signs of the sickness. Now he must figure out who to trust and who to avoid in order to save her little girl. The film takes it time for the build up and all through the end it demands your attention or careful viewing; cause this is one hell of a twisted movie with religious undertone & a baffling ending! The most twisted or confusing part is though the film time to time provides different & clear clues or hints for explanation to the mystery but when you see them trying to dismiss each other at the end then you'll find yourselves in a kind of a baffling scenario about who the actual "Bad Guy(s)" here...!?! Glad there's a youtube video (about The Wailing movie summary & explanation) provided by an English language Korean channel where they nicely explains it for you and states that it was all intentional by the director as he wanted the audience to view the film on its lead character's (the policeman) perspective and to go through the same experience of confusion & mystery as he went through till the end. Still, found it quite an interesting & great film overall that definitely worth a watch for Korean horror/thriller lovers. >>: A- |
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Ringu Zero
Don't think I need to explain this one as most know it. |
Suicide Club (2001)
 Was actually quite impressed by this movie, I thought it to be dumb and straightforward but it's rather complex and some things I didn't even quite understand. |
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The Wailing, 2016. 7/10
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...rnPojU1uCa4h8w This was a bit confusing for me, the storyline. I had to read Wikipedia. I still have a question or two but its Korean horror. It was good. |
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The Wailing - like everybody else, I liked it but it did get confusing.
Train to Busan - 10/10, see it if you can. I really like where Korean films are going, I wish we could do as well in the USA. |
The Tag-Along (2015)
https://s21.postimg.org/ndnzlrxwn/Tag_Along.jpg Wei's grandma suddenly disappears for no reason, but strangely the routines still move on as if she never vanished– the laundry is still done, their house is well-arranged as usual, and even breakfast remains prepared for Wei every morning. Distraught with worry, Wei is totally clueless until he finds an uncanny video in his grandma’s camera, showing that there was a little girl in red tagging along her. Oddly enough, after Wei's grandma finally returns, it turns out that Wei is missing instead. Struggling to unravel the enigma, Wei's girlfriend Yi-Chun gradually discovers that the mysteries behind Wei and his grandma's sudden disappearance may be connected to the urban legend of "The Little Girl in Red", but what's even worse is yet to come... Based on their local legend, this is a decently done horror flick from Taiwan. This is the kind of a flick that The Forest (2016) was supposed to be or I expected. Here the twist at the very end was cliched & unnecessary though. >>: B |
Train to Busan. Not a fan of zombie flicks, but I really enjoyed this one. Giving it a solid 8/10.
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The Wailing was phenomenal. I drove to another city just to watch it. 9/10.
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Aynabaji (2016)
https://s11.postimg.org/4welpt2mb/Aynabazi.jpg Over the years, the Bangladeshi cinema has been mostly criticized for its very weak infrastructure & having terrible influence of Bollywood movies. Experimental or making a film other than drama, comedy or romance genre was almost like 'unthinkable' & nobody ever even tried before as far I can recall. But after all the years, Amitabh Reza Chowdhuty (formerly known as a popular TVC maker) stepped forward & gave his great effort to make AYNABAZI, a neat & gripping character driven thriller!! AYNABAZI tells the story of Sharafat Karim Ayna...seemingly a very ordinary, down to earth guy who loves to spend time with the children as their drama teacher, sometime goes away for weeks or months when his "duty calls as a seasonal chef for a ship traveling around the Indian ocean". But under this carefully plotted fabric of impressions, Mr Ayna a.k.a.Ayna Vai is actually a master class real-life character actor who works as a short-term Proxy Prisoner for the spoiled, rich & ruthless people that failed to get a bail in court for their hideous crime. Ayna always takes his job very seriously as he remarkably slips into the characters of his convicted clients to avoid any sort of suspicions from his surroundings. But just when he is planning to quit from this strange profession, one last job knocks on his door - given no chance to refuse, eventually demands too much from him... Kudos to the director & his entire team for assembling a great cast who were stellar in almost every frame, particularly Chanchal Chowdhury on the lead did a phenomenal job; when every time ‘Ayna’ tries to impersonate the character of his new client (with a chilling score on the background) were the best moments of this movie, IMO. Partho Barua as an investigative crime reporter and the young new actress Nabila as the love interest of Ayna also nicely shines on their respective roles. The striking cinematography comes as another winner of the show. I think we have never seen our city through such amazing wide angle, bird eye view shots in any BD movie before. The dark & gloomy takes on a cloudy Dhaka somewhat represents this city as another character in the movie. It wasn't a world-class thriller may be but still Amitabh Reza's AYNABAZI is like a breath of fresh air for BD cinema (that has been in a kind of a limbo for an awful lot of long time due to lack of originality, creativity as well as decency!) and now this gives us hope for an exciting & better future as we all wait for more genre-based films like this through a possible, rising line of young & talented film makers in coming days. >>: B+ |
Rodan!
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Wishing Stairs-2003. 7/10.
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Train To Busan.
Easily one of the best zombie movies made in the last few years. Action packed, entertaining and surprisingly emotional. I recommend people check it out! |
last train to busan,(i actualy watched this in cinema in korea wich gave me the real feeling of korea, was living there at time, and i loved the movie.7/10
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Funny, I thought Train to Busan was a disaster movie, not a zombie movie.
 "10000 Years After" 9/10 A beautiful epic animated fantasy that has plenty of action, violence, weird creatures and tons of creativity. How this one didn't get an Oscar nomination this year is baffling. Well, already now it can be watched on Youtube. Go do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFSF...Y#t=172.402313 |
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Thanks, may check this out. You haven't steered me wrong yet! |
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TEKE TEKE 2009
A young schoolgirl is terrorized by a phantom missing the lower half of its body. Interesting but not scary. |
DEATH WATER 2006
Earthquake tremors have caused cursed water to seep into the water supply. People start stabbing their eyes or committing suicide. So so. |
BLACK HOUSE 2007
A meek insurance adjuster suspects a man of killing his stepson for the insurance money by faking the boy's suicide. As he further investigates, the truth takes a horrifying turn. Some creepiness but not out and out horror. |
Human Lanterns {人皮燈籠} 1982, 7/10
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Shin Godzilla aka Godzilla Resurgence (2016)
https://s18.postimg.org/sa1s16c2h/sh...gence_toho.jpg The bad trailer almost ruined it for me. But glad that I gave it a watch for my love of Big G, as surprisingly it turned out a pretty good Godzilla movie! Though it mostly concentrated on Govt. strategies (at times even kinda satirical way) on how to respond in this kind of a disastrous/monstrous occasion but liked the way this time they have added Big G's mutation features along with how Godzilla evolves from a funny looking sea monster to an angry giant unstoppable force of destruction. And last but not the least...the showcase of Godzilla's Atomic rays were awesome! Expected a little better & more action packed ending though. >>: B+ |
Suicide Club.
Sion Sono is amazing. Truly one of my favorite J-horror films.
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It's very bizarre and unusual but worth watching. Also if you enjoy Sion Sono, I highly recommend watching Love Exposure. A crazy, strange 4 hour long mad mans masterpiece. Completely unlike any other movie ever made! And Cold Fish is really good too. The first film of his that I saw. |
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This one is really great
Should have watch it |
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"Creepy" 7/10
"The Wailing" 7/10 |
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