Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A raucous teen boy with a feminine face is teased everywhere, so his odd biker father dresses him as a girl and sends him to an all-girl school. The lad introduces himself as Sukeban, and a classmate, Michiko, takes him to after-school activities. Lessons on humility turn violent when a masked hatchet-wielding woman turns up. Jealousy, …

Fantasy genre has never really taken off in a big way here in the West. It’s popularity hit a peak in the 1980’s with films like Conan the Barbarian (1982), The Dark Crystal (1982), Legend (1985,) Red Sonja (1985) and Highlander (1986) and we saw a slight surge of interest after Peter Jackson brought Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: This is the classic tale of misfit high school students taking a prank too far, resulting in the death of a classmate (or at least it seems). After burying him alive and torching him, he lashes out from the grave, only to mysteriously disappear just as quick. They had also filmed their attempt at psuedo-snuff, with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tax collector Ning, a clumsy and easily frightened man, doesn’t have any money and decides to stay overnight in an abandoned temple. Little does he know that the temple is haunted. He meets a very beautiful lady who seduces him, but he doesn’t know that she is a ghost, usually not leaving any man alive… REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family. REVIEW: Tomie: Forbidden Fruit is the fifth installment of the nine-part Tomie series. It’s directed by Shun Nakahara and stars Nozomi Ando as the infamous she devil, both of which do an adequate job in bringing yet another Tomie …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mistake of experiment may transform human into devil species. Dr. Diana and her father, Dr. Rung, discovered a new kind of snake-bite serum, X5N-1, was the great serum that could protect humans from snake poison. Both scientists were invited by World Health Organization (WHO) to receive a great award at Switzerland. Dr. Diana had to …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, encounters a family affected by the creature. REVIEW: Tigers have been associated with Korean people and culture since the birth of the nation of Korea. In fact, tiger is one of the key characters in Korean foundation mythology. It is traditionally considered as a guardian …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl looking through her father’s notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything looks ordinary until the name “Tomie” begins appearing throughout the notebook. REVIEW: The regenerating she devil is back once more in the third installment of the nine-part Tomie series directed by Tomijiro Mitsuishi. …

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 …