SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl (who just happens to be a member of a dangerous cult) is taken to Hell by a mysterious older woman and witnesses what happens to the many poor souls that end up there for all eternity. REVIEW: Jigoku (which translated means “Hell”) is a weird little fever dream of a movie and while it may not be …
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Film Review: The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
SYNOPSIS: A massacre strikes up after an outcast girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her violent, cutthroat psychic power. (source: IMDB)
Read More »Film Review: On Edge (short film) (1999)
SYNOPSIS: An impatient dental patient gets more than he bargained for when he meets enigmatic dentist Doctor Matthews.
Read More »Film Review: Fight Club (1999)
SYNOPSIS: “A young urban professional who works for a major car manufacturer can’t sleep. Although he doesn’t have any of the associated afflictions, he stumbles across support groups as a means to let out whatever emotions he is feeling, which in turn is allowing him to sleep. But the use of these support groups is ruined when he meets a …
Read More »Film Review: Tell Me Something (1999)
SYNOPSIS: Detective Cho has been assigned a particularly challenging case. Mismatched body parts are showing up all over Seoul in garbage bags, with little possibility of identifying who they belong to, until dental implants offer an important clue. This eventually leads to the discovery that the victim’s next of kin, a museum curator called Suyeon Chae, is actually an acquaintance …
Read More »Film Review: Women’s Flesh: My Red Guts (1999)
SYNOPSIS: After her boyfriend dumps her, a young woman goes into her bathroom and begins to masturbate with a toothbrush. Autoeroticism gradually turns into self-mutilation, and she attempts to eat one of her own fingers. She then asphyxiates herself, and the focus changes to another woman, who also begins to mutilate herself. She starts with a fork, switches to a …
Read More »Film Review: Girl Hell (1999)
SYNOPSIS: Misaki, a kindhearted 17-year-old schoolgirl, leads a lonely and miserable life. Abandoned by her mother, she lives with her invalid sister and abusive father. Unable to defend herself, her sister is sexually abused by their father constantly, but Misaki herself manages to avoid his incestuous attentions. She is unable to relate to her only friend, a fellow student who …
Read More »Film Review: School’s Out (1999)
SYNOPSIS: A group of seniors decide to have a party in their school on graduation night. Unfortunately an uninvited guest with a pair of scissors crashes the party and it isn’t long before the bodies begin to pile up. REVIEW: It’s a pretty well-known fact that I am a huge fan of slasher flicks. I’ve seen tons of them during …
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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