Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: You better not click if you want to survive. REVIEW: From the director Tae-kyeong Kim (Dead Friend, Muoi: Legend of the Portrait) comes an unbalanced and unimaginative techno horror. It tried to cash in on the Ringu inspired viral curse trend but fails to deliver on the scare and the story department. At the centre of …
Read More »Film Review: The Black House (Kuroi ie) (1999)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened. REVIEW: Yoshimitsu Morita’s The Black House offers a slow burning, darkly comic tale of suspicion, deceit and murder. It will not be everyone’s cup of tea, but those who stick with …
Read More »Film Review: Wolf Guy (Urufu gai: Moero ôkami-otoko) (1975)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba is WOLFGUY, the only survivor of a clan of werewolves who relies on his feral, full-moon-activated superpowers to solve mysterious crimes. One night, a bizarre and bloody death in the Tokyo streets plunges him into a far-reaching conspiracy populated by crooked politicians, naked white women, bit-players like Hideo Murota, a phantom tiger, and …
Read More »Film Review: Lingering (Hotel Leikeu) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Yoo-mi searches out her mother’s friend at a hotel to drop off her younger sister, she falls into unexpected mystery and horror. REVIEW: From first time director Yoon Een-Kyoung comes somewhat confusing piece of supernatural horror mystery, that delivers some decent scares, but sadly lacks in the story department.
Read More »Film Review: Monstrum (Mulgoe) (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Yoon Gyeom is a loyal subject of King Jung Jong of Joseon. He struggles to fight against a monster that threatens King Jung Jong’s life and a group of people trying to depose King Jung Jong. REVIEW: From South Korea comes a period adventure filled with action, intrigue and monsters. Monstrum is not the most complex …
Read More »Film Review: Creepy (Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin) (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick …
Read More »Film Review: #Alive (##Saraitda)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in isolation. It is his story. REVIEW: The past year has been a challenging one to say the least. Most of us have had to face at least some degree of lockdown measures, whether it has …
Read More »Film Review: Satan’s Slaves (Pengabdi Setan) (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children. REVIEW: In 1980 Sisworo Gautama Putra made an ever-lasting impact on Indonesian horror cinema with his landmark piece, Satan’s Slave (Pengabdi Setan). The tale of a grief-stricken family getting haunted by evil supernatural forces struck …
Read More »Film Review: May the Devil Take You Too (Sebelum Iblis Menjemput: Ayat Dua) (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two years after escaping from demonic terror, the young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening: the figure of darkness rises to take their lives. REVIEW: Timo Tjahjanto is back with another offering of gore filled fun with a highly anticipated sequel to his 2018 …
Read More »Film Review: Vital (2004)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a …
Read More »Film Review: Peninsula (Train to Busan 2)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie virus has in the last 4 years spread to all South Korea. 4 Koreans in HK sail thru the blockade to Incheon for USD20,000,000 on a truck. REVIEW: I am historically not a great fan of the zombie films. I have my favourites, but it is certainly not my go-to sub-genre in the world …
Read More »Film Review: Vanished (Oyayubi Sagashi) (2006)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell. REVIEW: An innocent childhood game goes wrong when a one of the kids playing goes missing. Eight years …
Read More »Film Review: Prostitute Killers (San sam long: Foon cheung tou foo) (2000)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three disgruntled orphans spend their nights picking up hookers, then raping and killing them. Things get a bit more complicated when they anger a local gangster leader, and then when one of them falls in love with one of their victims. REVIEW: Prostitute killers by the director Sam Shu-Pui Ho pretty much delivers exactly what one …
Read More »Film Review: Corpse Party (Côpusu pâtî) (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Facing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko Ever After so they will stay friends forever. Instead, they were whisked away to a haunted graduation ceremony for Heavenly Host Elementary School, forced to …
Read More »Film Review: Tokyo Home Stay Massacre (2020)
SYNOPSIS: Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family who plans to offer them to their gods in a sick ancient Japanese ritual.
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