Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Girl group “Pink Dolls” is always pushed into the background by other popular idols. When the girls release their new song “White”, a remake from unknown origins they become instant sensations REVIEW: Terrible title, terrible film. That sentiment might not always be accurate, but in the case of White: The Melody of the Curse, it very …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man humiliates teenage prostitutes to get them off the streets. Black comedy based on a Japanese manga. REVIEW: Directed by Kôsuke Suzuki and based on a manga by Hideo Yamamoto (story) and Tetsuya Koshiba (artwork), Stop the Bitch Campaign is pretty much as weird as its title would suggest.  IMDb has described it as action/drama, …

Extreme horror has been a part of Asian film landscape for decades. From Hong Kong’s notorious category III films, to the gruesome world of the Guinea Pig series, there is a myriad of styles and titles to choose from. In this article, I have tried my best to collect together some of the most infamous films ever made. As this …

It can easily be said that the 1970’s were the golden age of cinema. It saw the birth of various successful film franchises and was a starting point in the careers of many esteemed filmmakers. Directors like Francis For Coppola and Martin Scorsese made themselves known with some of the most memorable films in film history, and at the same …

When asked what’s the scariest horror film you have ever seen, I often struggle to answer. Firstly, it’s just simply difficult to remember any good films when put on a spot. It just seems that all the film knowledge I’ve accumulated just goes straight out of my head. Secondly, over the years, I have personally found that some of the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Advanced students who take a special class are being tortured by their class rank. REVIEW:   Directed and co-written by the music video director Chang (Yoon Hong-seung), Death Bell is a South Korean teen horror with a bit of a twist. It combines traditional ghost story with more modern (and graphic) horror elements, creating a lukewarm mixture …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model. REVIEW:  Môjû, or Blind Beast is a 1969 horror drama directed by Yasuzo Masumura and based on a novel by the Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo. It’s a captivating portrayal of a passionate, yet utterly deranged love affair; a love affair that begins from a very …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she’s the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him. REVIEW: Satan Returns is a 1996 Hong Kong action horror by the director Wai-Lun Lam. It’s a very uneven …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: In 2005 the directors Yudai Yamaguchi and Jun’ichi Yamamoto came together create a film called Meatball Machine. Based on Yamamoto’s earlier work from 1999, it’s an aggressive cyberpunk, sci-fi/horror-hybrid romp about alien parasites turning their hosts unto slave “Necroborgs”. It was a breakthrough film for the special effect’s wizard Yoshihiro Nishimura, who would later on go …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world REVIEW: Save the Green Planet! Is a horror/thriller/sci-fi hybrid by the writer-director Joon-Hwan Jang.  While these three genres crossover each other in regular intervals with variable degrees of success, you would be hard pressed to find …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Narranmoda Boarding School is strict for girls and has rigid rules of behavior, but the headmaster accepts four male students to improve the income of the school. However, the boys are segregated from the girls and the inspector Miss Fong keeps them under the surveillance of the dedicated monitor student Ho Yat-Man. The urban legend …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the movie, a strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri’s (Rena Komine) friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building. REVIEW: Ever since the release of The Blair witch Project in 1999, found footage horror has been here to stay. No longer is it …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Independent film from 1995 that “Tokyo Gore Police” is based on. Nishimura’s debut film. REVIEW: The rather oddly titled Anatomia Extinction is an avant-garde horror/sci-fi hybrid by the director/special effects artist Yoshihiro Nishimura. A precursor to Tokyo Gore Police (2008), it is a bizarre trip of giallo like beauty and gross out body horror, all tied in …