Tag Archives: 2004

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A naive young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer. REVIEW: Young Douglas Whooly is a lonely little boy. Living with his mom, he spends his days in the suburbs playing a video game on his hand-held console, where his character is tasked with assisting the Devil in sending souls to Hell. Little does …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man who moves to New York City to become a famous drag queen. As the Plug Lady he gains infamy at a drag cabaret his dreams become realized while a devoted following is a witness to the transformation. REVIEW: One good thing about the movie industry is that it does give creators a chance …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a …

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: A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. REVIEW: Il-gon Song’s Spider Forest is moody psychodrama that blurs the lines of reality to a point of completely confusion, never to really untangle them in a satisfying manner. Recently widowed TV producer Kang Min (Woo-seong Kam) wakes up in a …

SYNOPSIS: A troubled young woman dealing with something horrible that happened in her past witnesses a fatal accident and then becomes obsessed with taking photos associated with death. Things go from bad to worse for her when a mysterious person sends her a snuff film featuring the brutal death of a young woman. Is she the killer’s next target and if …

SYNOPSIS: A lonely little boy seeks out Satan from a video game and unwittingly becomes a serial killer’s helper on Halloween night. REVIEW: (This contains spoilers) Director Jeff Lieberman has produced horror comedy that many say lies just outside the norm. For that reason, he has my respect. He’s shared in interviews many times that he got the idea for …

SYNOPSIS: A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman. REVIEW: The image that opens Zebraman is a lady sitting in a hair drying machine in what appears to be the sidewalk outside of a bathhouse, when suddenly, a zebra walks by. The text on the screen reads “anything goes.” …

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 …

SYNOPSIS: A loser is visited by an angel who tells him to kill the wicked. He obeys, losing his humanity in the process. REVIEW: When I saw what this movie was about, I was intrigued: a movie wherein a man is commanded by an Angel to bring the punishment of God to the wicked? That sounds rad, to be quite …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for “justice.”  REVIEW: Directors: David Koepp Writers: David Koepp (screenplay), Stephen King (short story) Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton Secret Window is a wonderful throwback mystery thriller, and writer/director David Koepp’s homage to Hitchcock-ian …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sara (Sunny Mabrey), the daughter of Eve (Natasha Henstridge) begins her mission to mate with humans, while a specialist military team hunt her down to kill her before its too late. REVIEW: Horror movies attempt to tap into the insecurity of viewers.  Outside forces like serial killers and supernatural beings that use a sense of helplessness …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula. REVIEW: It’s almost cruel to compare Blade Trinity to the rest of the trilogy, but I wouldn’t have to if it did enough to stand on its own. Sadly, its failings are even more …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A story of a very ordinary man who just happens to be necrophile. (He is also like to eat cockroaches.) Problems begins when his pretty orphan cousin came to live with him… REVIEW: Here’s something funny I’ve noticed about necrophilia – it seems that at least half of the movies dealing with this taboo subject are warm, …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A suicidal woman hires a gay man to watch her for the weekend to explore the differences between men and women. REVIEW: Director Catherine Breillat is no stranger to controversy: her films generally explore the darker side of sexuality. Anatomy of Hell is no different. It makes more of an attempt to gross us out, simply for the …