Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Suffering from writer’s block and some curious ailments, Reiko moves to a countryside home at her editor’s beckoning to quietly work on her next novel. Her new environment turns out to be anything but peaceful though when she sights her next door neighbor, mysteriously moving a thousand-year-old mummified corpse into his university lab for research. Though …
Read More »Interview: Jay McRoy – Author
Jay McRoy: author- Interview – 12.09.08 Author Jay McRoy stopped by answer some questions about his books and shed a little light on Asian horror cinema! Check it out! Japanese Horror Cinema, Nightmare Japan : Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema, and Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutation in the Horror Film,are your latest books, can you tell us about them? Jese …
Read More »Film Review: Sigsaw (The Echo) (2004)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Marvin savors his independence in a newly acquired unit of an old apartment building. Except for the noise from an apartment unit down the hallway, the place is almost perfect. Soon a series of hauntings set into motion where Marvin is forced to make a decision to confront the evil that dwells within his apartment building …
Read More »Film Review: Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Tomie transfers to a new high school and her classmates are captivated by her beauty. But they soon realize that evil lurks behind her gorgeous face. Determined not to succumb, they kill her and deposit the pieces of her body in various locations. But Tomie can`t be stopped; she restores herself and continues on her malevolent …
Read More »Film Review: Imprint (2006)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An American journalist returns to Japan to find his long lost love. His journey leads him to a deformed prostitute who holds the key to discovering his beloved’s fate
Read More »Film Review: Jigoku (1960)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young student’s life spirals into the evils of hellfire after he meets a mysterious young man. REVIEW: Director: Nobuo Nakagawa Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yoichi Numata,Hiroshi Izumida, Torahiko Nakamura, Fujimko Miyata The Examination: Fire and Brimstone Sensation! Although this film contains effects that are outdated by modern standards, it is a very powerful story that is …
Read More »Film Review: Epitaph (Gidam) (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dr. Park Jung-nam browses through an old photo book and reminisces back to 1942, when Korea was occupied by Japan, and he was a young doctor in Ansaeng Hospital. During that time, strange events happen, as corpses brought to the mortuary aren’t able to rest in peace. REVIEW: Director: Jung Sik and Jung Bum-Sik Cast: Kim …
Read More »Film Review: Coming Soon (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young projectionist, Chen, decides to illegally record a newly released horror movie. After falling asleep during the screening, he wakes to find that his co-conspirator has disappeared and left his camera behind. Suddenly, the horror movie that they were watching in the cinema starts to happen to them in real life. REVIEW: Director: Sophon Sakdapisit …
Read More »ASIAN SCREAM QUEENS: Jin-hie (Phone)
ABOUT: My name is Jin-hie, although some like to call me disturbed. I like to say I was passionate. I was a schoolgirl from South Korea who was madly in love with a man named Chang-hoon. We shared many special moments together, and he was especially fond of my piano playing. His favorite song was Moonlight Sonata! Even though Chang-hoon …
Read More »ASIAN SCREAM QUEENS: Asami Yamazaki (Audition)
ABOUT: “Kiri kiri kiri kiri kiri”, the sound of a beautiful Japanese songbird to some, to others, a painful pathway to truth. You may know me from Audition, but please allow me to introduce myself, I am Asami Yamazaki. Quiet, obedient, and well spoken, I have been told that I am everything that a man desires in a woman. All …
Read More »Film Review: Audition (1999) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Director Takashi Miike fashions an explosive drama in Audition. Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) has lived as a widower for too long and decides it’s time to marry again. But how will he find a wife? When a friend suggests he hold a fake audition to pick the right woman, he takes him up on it — …
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