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- Interview: Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence)
- Wrath of the Titans – Descends upon us with 3 New Posters
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- ‘The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol’ – Brand New Horror Comedy – Breaking Glass
- GHOST ADVENTURES gears up for season six!
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- ‘Live in Fear’ Announces Casting
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- Book Review: Sudden Death Overtime – Author Steve Vernon
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- Interview: Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence)
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- Interview: Authors Rocky Wood & Joel Kirkpatrick
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- Trailer: Jurrasic Shark (2012) Trailer 2
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Category Archives: Asian Reviews
Film Review: Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971)
SYNOPSIS:
From Earth’s pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.
REVIEW:
“Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster” was a 1971 release that made its way thru the theatre circuit. The film is titled under its original Asian title as “Godzilla vs Hedorah”.Hedorah is the name given to the freaky tadpole creature that originates out of the pollution… More
Film Review: Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
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Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who’s behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the… More
Film Review: Tomie Unlimited (2011)
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Noboru Iguchi (RoboGeisha) is back with another horror film packed to the brim with outrageously ghoulish gore and oceans of fake blood. Tomie: Unlimted, from the original manga by Junji Ito, follows the young high school student Tsukiko (Moe Arai). A member of her school’s photography club, the shy Tsukiko has always been in her beautiful older sister Tomie’s (Miu Nakamura) shadow, feeling inferior to her in every way. But when a… More
Film Review: Gurozuka (2005)
A college film club goes on a trip to an abandoned cabin to research a film. The two girls in the club aren’t alone however since they have also brought the drama club, a teacher chaperone and her suspected lover, a young girl who is the same age as the rest of the group. No one but the film club knows about the film that is being researched but soon they all will learn… More
Film Review: Yakuza Weapon (2011)
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The Team that brought you VERSUS have returned with another hard-edged battle royale featuring tough gangsters, deadly women and cybemetic implants!!
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“Typhoon Sushi” has got a new action packed blood soaked adventure for ya. This little gun-toting ditty packs in plenty of head blasting machine-gun fun. Right in line with the slew of release they have churned out over the last year arrives “Yakuza Weapon“.
Right away we encounter Shozo Iwaki (Tak… More
Film Review: Deserted House (aka The Haunted House Project) (2010)
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Over the past 42 years, six people have gone missing, eight people have died “accidently” and eleven cases of murder have occurred in a deserted house. 3 members of an abandoned house exploring club and 3 staff members of a broadcasting company go into the deserted house. All of them disappear.
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By now, you would think with all their expertise in the ghost and scary ambience department, that the Asian market would… More
Film Review: Haunted Changi (2010)
Story of what happened to a group of documentary makers shooting a documentary in Singapore’s haunted Old Changi Hospital.
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“Haunted Changi” is another entry in the horror found-footage sub-genre. Many of the independent entries in this particular type of movie show a lack of experience, and act as a way to hide the amateur cast and crew. This is not the case with “Haunted Changi.” A great, grass-roots, internet ad campaign, combined with… More
Film Review: The Cat (2011)
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So-Yeon, by request from police officer Joon-Suk, takes a cat home after the owner was found dead. Shortly after, So-Yeon starts to see a mysterious young girl. She becomes frightened. Then, So-Yeon’s good friend Bo-Hee is found dead. Near Bo-Hee, there is a cat which Bo-Hee recently adopted from an animal shelter. So-Yeon now fears for her own life. So-Yeon and Joon-Suk investigate deeper into the mysterious case. There is a hidden… More
Film Review: Helldriver (2010)
An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transforming those who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring the surviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two—the southern half of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, lives behind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infected wasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living… More
Film Review: The Child’s Eye (2010)
A group of friends find themselves stranded in an old hotel. As they uncover the history beneath the walls they’re slowly drawn into its sinister past making it harder to get out alive!
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Film Review: The Sylvian Experiments (2010)
Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki’s boyfriend Motojima and detective… More
Film Review: Shutter (2004)
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A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
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Within the smattering of Asian horror releases that arrived like a tidal wave of fear, “Shutter” (2004) was one of ones that carried a well known legacy of being frightful. Its later 2008 US version entirely missed its mark and failed to win over fans… More
Film Review: Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island (2009)
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Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends.
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Asian vampire movies are usually a love or hate impacting experience for me. On one hand, you have to appreciate that they don’t always prescribe to Western cliches in their cultural differences. This tends to… More
Film Review: Horny House of Horror (2010)
On their way back from their local baseball team’s game, Nakazu, Uno and Toshida have too much to drink and they end up visiting the sex parlor “Shogun” as a nod to Nakazu’s limited life as a single man. Nakazu has never been to a sex parlor before and he feels guilty about betraying his fiancée, Misa. He attempts to go but the other two are already far too excited to leave. Uno… More
Film Review: Blades of Blood (2010)
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During a turbulent time when political upheaval, rebellion, and invasion are coming to a head two swordsmen are caught up in a violent and bloody struggle to seize control of the country they love. With their army of alliance standing behind them they will meet for the most important battle of their lives. Swords will be drawn while many lives are lost, but only one swordsman will walk away the new king of… More
Film Review: Black Rat (2010)
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A group of high school students whose friend committed suicide after they treated her cruelly. Months later, they receive letters asking them to come to the school one night. After they arrive, they’re met by a girl in a rat mask who tells them she is going to kill them all. Is it their dead friend out for revenge?
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Kenta Fukasaku has had an interesting career as a director. It… More
Film Review: Cold Fish (2010)
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When Syamoto’s teenage daughter is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Syamoto’s troublesome daughter work at their fish store. Syamoto soon discovers the horrific truth of the seemingly perfect couple.
REVIEW:
Director – Shion Sono
Starring – Makoto Ashikawa, Denden, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
“Life is pain. Life hurts.” A quote from the movie that sums up the entire plot. Those five… More
Film Review: Gothic & Lolita Psycho (2010)
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The film stars actress and gravure idol Rina Akiyama as Yuki, a girl who lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and slaughters her mother. In order to reveal the truth behind the seemingly senseless murder, Yuki transforms herself into a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, wielding a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in the name of God.… More
Film Review: The Matrimony (2007)
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A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
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Matrimony is not your typical Asian horror thriller. While it does focus on the theme of death and ghosts, it is in fact a bit richer in story, presentation and culture.
Culture as we… More
Film Review: Suicide Club (2001)
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After a group of 54 school girls commit suicide simultaneously at a train station, police start investigating their deaths and try to connect the seemingly unrelated suicides that had been plaguing Japan. With the help of a woman who identifies herself as ‘The Bat’ and set to the music of a girl band called ‘Dessert’ detectives dive head first into the evils of pop culture and the effect it has on the Asian… More
Film Review: The Coffin (2008)
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Inspired by a true Thai ritual of lying in coffins to get rid of bad luck and prolong life, The Coffin is a supernatural thriller about a young man and a young woman who decide to go through the ritual in Thailand.
REVIEW:
The Examination Results: Balance of life and death, interrupted.
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Cast: Karen Mok, Ananda Everingham, Andrew Lin
Written and directed by award-winning Thai director Ekachai Uekrongtham, The Coffin… More
Film Review: A Day Without Policemen (Mou jing shi fen) (1993) – CAT III
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Simon Yam plays a former big city cop who had a very bad experince with an AK-47. So he’s been assigned duty on one of the Hong Kong Islands as a police chief of a small village. He spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking hash while daydreaming. But when a group of thugs armed with AK-47′s and .45′s invade his terrain, he must over come his fear of that weapon… More
Film Review: Rape in Public Sea (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS:
A group of bad guys kill a bunch of innocent people, and rape and kill a woman in front of her husband. The bad guys are from Hong Kong, their victims Vietnamese. The Vietnamese surviving victims band together to take revenge on the bad guys. There is a lot of gratuitous sex, fighting, shooting, raping, violence, and breasts. It’s a revenge film, and the director is as breast-obsessed as Russ Meyer.
REVIEW:
During… More
Film Review: The Shock Labyrinth (3D) (2009)
SYNOPSIS:
A group of teenagers take a sick to a hospital only to find out it is a horrific labyrinth
REVIEW:
Director – Takashi Shimizu
Starring – Yuya Yagira, Ai Maeda, Misako Renbutsu
I am a big fan of The Grudge, both the Japanese original version and the American remake, so when I saw that this was directed by Takashi Shimizu it would be more than fair to say that I had high… More
Film Review: Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985) – CAT III
Oniroku Dan: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme (original title)
SYNOPSIS:
Ran Masaki plays a beautiful teacher who is transferred to a remote mountain school where she is gang-raped and abused by the male students.REVIEW:
Plot: Completely irrelevant. The disc does not come with subtitles, which is a moot point because they would be useless. When subtitles are irrelevant you know you are not watching the Cat III version of Citizen Kane. Cat IIIs are… More
Film Review: Death Tube 2 (2010)
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Somebody is playing a sick game with other people’s lives, live on the internet on a web based show called “Death Tube”. And to make it even sicker, people can comment on the deaths while watching from their computers. Now eight captured people must co-operate if they want to escape their imminent deaths..live on the internet.
REVIEW:
He calls himself “Ponchiki” & he’s a happy looking animated teddy bear wearing a beanie. He’s… More
Film Review: Missing (aka Sil Jong) (2009)
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Hyeon-jeong’s sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister’s cellphone, Hyeon-jeong learns that her sister stayed in a countryside vaillage. She goes to the village to find her sister and stops at the local police station for help. Because of the little evidence she has, the police refuse to offer help.
Hyeong-jeong then finds a witness who thinks she saw her missing sister near the home of an elderly… More
TV Review: Ultraman (TV Series) (Complete) (1966)
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In a world threatened by huge prehistoric creatures and invading aliens, the high-tech Science Patrol defends civilization with its sophisticated weaponry and spacecraft. But, unbeknownst to the rest of the team, patrol member Hayata can transform himself into Ultraman — a metallic superhero who steps in and saves the day when the team is unable to stop their foes. A Japanese cult favorite.
REVIEW:
Out of the long past days of obscurity… More
Film Review: Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
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Mutant Girls Squad (???? ???????, Sento Shojo: Chi no Tekkamen Densetsu?, literally translated as “Fighting Girls: Legend of the Blood of the Iron Mask”) is a Japanese film by Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura and Tak Sakaguchi. The film is about Rin, a sixteen-year-old mutant girl who meets a gang of rebel mutants who aim to take revenge on humans for persecuting their race. The film had its international premiere at the New York… More
Film Review: Re-Cycle (2006)
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As she struggles to complete her new horror novel, best-selling author Tsui Ting-Yin’s (Angelica Lee) gruesome literary creations come to life and ensnare her in their terrifying and all-too-real alternate world. Now, she must escape, but the only means is to confront a painful incident in her past. Directed by Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun, this visually stunning film also stars Siu-Ming Lau.
REVIEW:
If your a fan of the movie “The… More
