[Smackytherabbit]

If you are looking for good horror i would probably skip the whole japanese section and go right to Korean. Not saying that the Japanese have are lower quality in their movies but the Koreans make some twisted shit. Probably my favorite director is Chan-wook Park. While his movies are more along the lines of a thriller, The vengeance series is a must see (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) for any type of movie fan.

Good Korean Movies: (* = more of a thriller)
-Vengeance Series*
-ARANG
-Blood Rain*
-Cello
-Cinderella
-H*
-The Host
-Doll Master
-Memories of Murder*
-R-Point
-Wig
-Tale of two sisters
-Whispering Corridors Series (Voice, Wishing Stairs, Momento mori, WS)


If you are into weird movies then go with the Japanese and try Takashi Miike. He leaves you wondering what the hell happened to him early on in his childhood. Very dark humor in his movies and most are very very very graphic in gore, sexuality, and violence.

Best of Miike:
-Audition
-Ichi the killer
-Visitor Q
-Gozu
-One missed call

Good Japanese Horror: (* = more of a thriller)
-Evil Dead Trap
-Battle Royale
-2LDK*
-Death Note
-Yogen
-Versus
-Suicide Club
-Ringu
-Ju-on
-Infection
-Guinea Pig Series (if you like extreme gore)
-Dark Water (not a huge fan of this movie)

There are a lot of big differences in Asian cultures that come through in their movies. For example Chinese and Thai seem to be more bound to tradition than Japanese and Korean (although korean does have a lot of traditional aspects). The Peng brothers are the big names in Chinese cinema, They just recently in the past year or so made a Hollywood movie. Thus losing some respect from me but whatever. Their stuff is still good.

Good Chinese Horror : (* = more of a thriller)
-Dog Bite Dog* (very very very brutal movie)
-The Eye
-Re-Cycle
-Koma*
-Forest of Death

Good Thai Horror : (* = more of a thriller)
-Art of the Devil
-The Victim
-Shutter
-Dorm
-Colic

Lost of good stuff out there as far as Asian Horror goes. But if you are looking for like an Asian Horror Movie starter kit........ hummm.....

-Shutter
-A Tale of two sisters
-The Eye 1+2
-Yogen
-Oldboy

Of course that list is assuming you have seen Juon and ringu (personally i think there is so much better out there than those two)and would just like to dive a bit deeper.

Also if you are looking for slasher flicks, asian horror probably is not for you but i can give you a list of some......


-Bloody Beach
-Evil Dead Trap
-I guess we could consider Ichi one.
-H
-Versus i guess.



It's hard to label these movies as slashers though cause theres really not too many. I guess your best bet would probably be to go with thrillers i listed above.