Japanese Horror

[Oats]

good food

[Sam The Egg]

I'll be getting Kwaidan next week, never seen it but it's probably great

[MrShape]

Originally posted by nine9
I haven't seen alot of them, just Ringu and The Eye, but I thought both were excellent! Really want to see Dark Water but I can't find it. :(

The Eye is a Hong Kong film, actually. Dark Water can be found at AsianCult.com or VideoDaikaiju.com.

[MrShape]

I love jap horror, depending on what it is. I like the Ring movies, all four of the Grudge films, and the like. Also, South Korea has been making some pretty cool (if diriviative) horror films of late like Nightmare and Phone.

[SourMilk]

Big Fan of Jap horror.. I have the Ring, Ring 2, and Ring 0 and Dark water and Versus.. Battle Royale is one hell of a movie too, One i still need to purchase.. I rented out Battle royale 2 last night.. Great flick but in my opinion not as good as the first..

Spirited away is a pretty slick flick for Jap animie and story...

Watching Jap flicks has got me intrested in to learning Japenese so i can understand what there saying without having to go square eyed reading the subtitles...

:)

[N0Hypocrites]

I got 'Junk' recently. It's supposedly a cross between 'Dawn of the Dead' and 'Reservoir Dogs' (or tries a little too hard to be I'd say). It was still pretty cool though. I just hate the fact I can't seem to get subtitles onto a VCD of it now like I used to do. 'Junk' and 'Passion of The Christ' are eating up way too much hard drive space (both need subtitles) and I've got a film to edit at the moment. Argh!
CK

[Kristy Langford]

I am a huge fan of Japanese horror especially Versus, Junk, Ringu, Wild Zero and Bio-Zombie.

[zwoti]

anyone else seen "a living hell".....how about "another heaven"?

[EXTR3MIST]

The Eye is a Hong Kong film, actually

...of Thai origin.

Wherever Oriental movies are produced, they certainly have become hip to seek out in recent years - no doubt down to the increasingly jaded audience of lightweight American post-modern horror hokum, and the glut of new European labels dedicated to distributing them in the West.

Sometimes the hilarity of poorly translated subtitles on some discs is worth the admission price alone: "Crash his penis!", "Ah, the story of the urinating Mahjong!", "You ruined our artwork! I'll tear your ass to shreds!".

Lotsa fun.

[SamCostello]

Originally posted by zwoti
anyone else seen "a living hell".....how about "another heaven"?

I saw Another Heaven. It starts out pretty strong (though there's a bit too much played for comedy at first) but then just drags and when you finally get to the end, it just stops making sense, or being so smart, all together.

Good set up, bad execution.

Sam