Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world. REVIEW: Based on the three volume manga series by Housui Yamazaki, Mail is a supernatural action drama by the director Iwao Takahashi. It follows detective Akiba (Takamasa Suga) who together with his Assistant Mikoto (Chiaki Kuriyama) goes around helping people who find themselves …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A police officer doubts himself after saving the life of a notorious and ruthless killer. His actions come back to haunt him when the killer and his gang become suspects in a bloody armed robbery. REVIEW: Anyone who knows my taste in horror will know that the 1980’s is quite possibly my favourite era of this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies. REVIEW: From the minds of the director Shin’ichiro Ueda and the playwright Ryoichi Wada comes one the best horror comedies of the last decade. And I do …

I am a sucker for a good ghost story. In fact, I would go as far as saying that when it comes to horror films, it is quite possibly my favourite type of horror. There’s just something about dark, unseen forces that create a sense of dread that I simply do not get from stories about more tactile dangers. While …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever. REVIEW: Over the years I have seen my fair share of weird films and avant-garde cinema. I can even consider myself a fan of such filmmakers as Kenneth Anger and Shinya Tsukamoto, both of whose film catalogues are …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Lu Yun, a novelist who has been suffering from memory loss, plans to go to a strange town with a man named Han Bin, only to find out the truth of her husband, Zhang Shiquan, who has been killed in a plane crash with Han Bin’s wife Liu Ling. REVIEW:   Joe Chien’s The Apostles is a …

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 …