Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life when a small, fetus-like creature murders her crew. REVIEW: Evil Dead Trap is a film perhaps best known to most horror fans because of its …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A poor family, the Kims, con their way into becoming the servants of a rich family, the Parks. But their easy life gets complicated when their deception is threatened with exposure. REVIEW:    If you haven’t already heard of Bong Joon-ho’s latest film Parasite, you must have been living in a barrel for the past six months. …

2020 is shaping up to be a promising year for horror. January alone is jam-packed with all sorts of intriguing titles, such as the Lovecraftian cosmic chiller Colour Out of Space and the nautical monster romp Underwater. Further on in the year we can expect titles like The Lodge, Come to Daddy and Antebellum. An old favourite Candyman will also …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Japanese teenager can see ghosts and sees a cute girl fighting an evil monster. He ends up with her reaper power and she as human in his high school class. He discovers a connection between his mom’s death and these monsters REVIEW:    The director Shinsuke Sato is back with yet another live action adaptation of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers capture a man-eating monster. REVIEW: From the writer-director Giddens Ko comes a pitch-dark horror comedy about monsters of various form. I only call Mon Mon Mon Monsters a comedy because that is the way it has been sold and advertised. Looking at the promo images you get a sense of a possibly …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Members of a supernatural exploration club go into a haunted house. REVIEW: First time director Yoo Sun-Dong, together with K-pop stars Jung Eun-ji and Lee Sung-yeol, join forces in a lacklustre ghost story with a predictable plot and harrowingly bad performances. At first glance, 0.0MHz seems like it could have some potential. While the idea of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An MMA fighter helps an exorcist fight evil. REVIEW: After his success with the 2017 action comedy Midnight Runners, the director Joo-hwan Kim is back with another action-packed offering, this time mixing horror with martial arts. While the idea of an exorcist kicking the devil’s ass with his bare hands might sound like a fun premise, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the death of his mother, 20-year-old Lily lives with her grandmother and is going to be the successor to the deadly martial art Sayama Hasin-ryu, which is transmitted for several centuries, from woman to woman. During the initiation ritual, Lily mysteriously falls in the past, 300 years ago.It is in an unknown forest near a …

SYNOPSIS: Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal. REVIEW: The story revolves around a young woman called Nami (Kumi Takiuchi), who lives a life of luxury and leisure with the money she has inherited from her dead …

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 …

SYNOPSIS: Yang Chen(Victor Chen Sze Hon) and Lin Xinya(Mi Gong) are dating with each other. They both work for a TV station as a reporter. They are assigned to report a murder case in the Love Motel. As soon as they arrive at the hotel, their are involved in a series of nightmares. It turns out that the victims used …

SYNOPSIS: A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter. REVIEW: I’ve said it before, …

Cyberpunk is an offshoot of science fiction, usually set in a dystopian future with a focus on “low life-high tech”; advanced technology in contrast with dire living conditions, pollution and social disorder. The genre has it’s beginning in the 1960’s and 1970’s with authors like Phillip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny and J. G. Ballard taking science fiction to darker paths …

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 not say that …

SYNOPSIS: The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou’s dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society. REVIEW: Let me start by stating that this is not a horror film. For those familiar with Shunji Iwai’s previous works this comes as no surprise, as he has a well established career …