Asian Reviews

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. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Professor Shiang’s female students are chewed apart by the moon monster. At first, Shiang is a police suspect, but as the corpses mount, the cops realize that there are supernatural forces at work. REVIEW: Synopsis: A demon vampire god feasts on nubile female flesh while a motley crew of humans tries to track down its legend …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is overly protective of his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother’s terrible activities. REVIEW: Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed, or Jokosei: tenshi no harawata, is the first film in a series of nine Angel Guts films, most of …

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: A paranormal thriller involving two young women who start off as roommates but become much more. These working ladies have such a wonderful time living together, sharing their new home. Their friendship gets deeper, until a bond of love forms between them. But soon their world is terrorized by an uninvited “guest” who possesses one of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Crone is part of a Japanese horror project which also includes Norio Tsuruta’s Talk to the Dead and Koji Shiraishi’s Cult. Ayane, Nanami, and Mayuko are members of a new 3-member idol group called “Jersey Girl”. One day they’re invited to appear on a television show about the paranormal where they’ll visit an abandoned nursing …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up “demon emperor” Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In Captured for Sex 2, a young man, Shingo, and his girlfriend, Miki, are driving in the countryside when their car breaks down. When they go and seek help from a nearby house, they are captured and kept as sex slaves by an unnamed man. Gradually Shingo becomes enraptured by the acts of forced S/M on …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a crazed scientist called Key Man develops a virus that causes humans to mutate, samurai sword-wielding cop Ruka is called in to annihilate the unnatural creatures. Can Ruka wipe out the mutations and stop Key Man before the virus takes over humanity? Little does Ruka know, though, that the slaying of her father years before …

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 …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Story of what happened to a group of documentary makers shooting a documentary in Singapore’s haunted Old Changi Hospital. REVIEW: “Haunted Changi” is another entry in the horror found-footage sub-genre. Many of the independent entries in this particular type of movie show a lack of experience, and act as a way to hide the amateur cast and …