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Film Review: Lady Vengeance (2005)

Posted on 04/28/2012 by Arty Flores

(aka Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)

SYNOPSIS:

The final installment of director Chan Wook Park’s revenge trilogy (preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy) chronicles the efforts of Lee Geum-ja (Yeong-ae Lee) — known to her cellmates as “the kind Ms. Geum-ja” — to track down the man who betrayed her. Taking the rap for her accomplice and incarcerated for 13 long years, she plots an elaborate retribution with help from her fellow… More

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Film Review: Phobia 2 (aka Ha phraeng ) (2009)

Posted on 09/26/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Phobia 2 is dissected into 5 shorts stories; Novice, Ward, Backpackers, Salvage and In The End

REVIEW:

Directors: Banjong Pisantthanakun * Paween Puriktpanya * Songyos Sugmakanan * Parkpoom Wongpoom
Actors: Erika Toda * Charlie Trairat * Marsha Wattanapanich

Never having seen PHOBIA 1 I had no idea what I was getting into with this Thai film. Turns out it is a anthology film with five different tales and in it’s own language… More

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Film Review: Family Portraits: a Trilogy of America (2003)

Posted on 09/23/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Deceit, long kept secrets, and grisly murders surrounded in mystery – all this and more can be found in Bloodbath in the House of Knives. What starts as a harmless visit to a hypnosis demonstration turns into a roller coaster ride filled with dead bodies that start to pile up around poor Ivy (Anne Reiss). What can be the true meaning of all this? Who would be capable of such crimes? Could it… More

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Film Review: Evil of Dracula (Chi o suu bara) (1974)

Posted on 09/20/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Dracula, played by an uncredited caucasian, was shipwrecked in the 1600s in Japan, when Christianity was illegal. He was forced to spit on the cross and wander alone in the desert. Upon finding himself bleeding, he was so thirsty he drank the blood and acquired a taste for it, attacking local teenager Keiko. In present day, Professor Shiraki arrives at a girl’s school where he was to be teaching, but now the principal,… More

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Revitalizing the Japanese gore film of tomorrow – Tokyo Extreme

Posted on 09/17/2010 by Arty Flores

I am a total luncidal blood slurping cinema gorehound on a neverending search/hunt for my next gore fix!! And if you are too then you need to keep reading because if you are just finding out about these movies you will be thanking HorrorNews.net for enlightening you about these unbelievably bloodsoaked, gut ripping, head smashing, outrageously over the top gore flicks coming out of Japan! Look, I’ve all ready wrote the word ” gore ”… More

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Film Review: The Fox With Nine Tails (aka Fox Girl) (2006)

Posted on 09/16/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Since the nine-tailed fox, Harah, is a hybrid of human and fox, it desperately desires to become human totally. One day Harah runs into a handsome taxi driver Hyuk by chance and falls in love with him straight away. She hopes that by being with him day in and day out, Hyuk can be used as a tool to help Harah become a human being. However, as it turns out, despite her tenderness… More

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Film Review: P (2005)

Posted on 09/16/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

An orphan (Suangporn Jaturaphut) must put the magic skills she learned from her grandmother to the test when her elderly caretaker falls ill. Taking up work as a go-go dancer to pay for her grandmother’s medicine, she uses her powers for good … or is it evil? Writer Paul Spurrier also directs this chilling Thai-language horror film set amid the tranquil beauty of rural Thailand and the seedy streets of Bangkok.

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Film Review: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

Posted on 09/16/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Deaf and dumb Ryu (Ha-Kyun Shin) is romantically involved with young revolutionary Young-Mi (Dun-na Bae) and loves his older sister so much that he sells his kidney on the black market to afford her a life-saving transplant. When Ryu find’s he’s been ripped off, Young-Mi hatches a better plan: She and Ryu will “borrow” the young daughter of the capitalist boss who fired Ryu and raise the necessary funds that way.… More

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Film Review: Evil Cat (Xiong mao) (1986)

Posted on 09/15/2010 by Arty Flores


SYNOPSIS:

Korean slasher about a group of young people who reunite with their now wheel-chair bound teacher. The happy gathering turns into a nightmare as old grudges and hidden truths surface and one by one the former classmates vanish in a series of unforgettably gruesome murders.

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Starring: Lau Kar Leung * Wong Ching * Tang Lai Wing * Stuart Ong * Mark Ching * Tsui Suk Woon

Screenplay: Wong Ching

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Film Review: Forest of Death (2007)

Posted on 09/14/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Detective Ha (Qi Shu) investigates the rape and murder of a woman who died in the Forest of Death, a popular suicide spot considered haunted. With the help of botanist Shum (Ekin Cheng), Ha tries to identify the killer by unlocking secrets held by the forest’s plants. This horror movie also follows Shum’s girlfriend, May, a television reporter who grows increasingly popular as she chronicles the paranormal activity happening in the forest.

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Film Review: Hide & Seek (2007)

Posted on 09/14/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

Eric Quizon plays Oliver Alicanio, a university professor who is tried and then acquitted in a high profile crime. He and wife Leah (Jean Garcia) with children, Uno (Julijo Pisk) and Nica (Jennica Garcia) go to the province to take a breather after a very stressful event in their lives. Nica actually resents her stepfather whom she believes is actually guilty. Meanwhile, trailing the family is Nica’s very ardent suitor –Joseph… More

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Film Review: Oldboy (2003)

Posted on 09/13/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years — and no one to hold accountable for his suffering — a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors, relying on assistance from a friendly waitress. Korean director Chan Wook Park — a former philosophy student and Hitchcock devotee — uses his influences to create a mesmerizing psychological drama with a resolution that will leave you speechless.

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Film Review: Suicide Song (2007)

Posted on 09/13/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

A thriller centered on an urban legend about a song that fatally affects its listeners.

REVIEW:

Things I would rather do than watch SUICIDE SONG again: Clean the toilet at HorrorNews.net headquarters. Give Edith Massey a hot oil rub down, Be the star of a Al Quaeda beheading video, get married to Lindsey Lohan, write a 650 word essay about SUICDE SONG. I think I like the idea of SUICIDE SONG better than… More

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Film Review: Executive Koala (2005)

Posted on 09/13/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S., MINORU KAWASAKI S FOLLOW-UP TO CALAMARI WRESTLER, A CULT CLASSIC PSY-KOALA HORROR / COMEDY! Tamura is an average Japanese salaryman working in the offices of a pickle distribution company. He is well liked in the office, hard-working, polite, wears a suit and tie, and also happens to be a six-foot tall koala bear. But when his girlfriend Yoko turns up dead one day and Tamura… More

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Film Review: Kaidan (2007)

Posted on 09/13/2010 by Arty Flores

SYNOPSIS:

After a young man inadvertently causes the death of his wife, her jealous ghost comes back to haunt him — the unfortunate result of an ancient family curse incurred by an ancestor who murdered a debt collector. Hoping to escape his torment, the man runs off with one of his wife’s former pupils, which only enrages the woman’s spirit more. Kikunosuke Onoe and Hitomi Kuroki star in this spooky horror film from the… More

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