Horror
Movie Review Listing
(117 min)
1994 - Horror, Thriller, Drama - Japan
A rash of murders taking place on subways at exactly 6 P.M. strikes up fear in the population of Tokyo. The mark of a serial killer is left on these seemingly random murders and a professional, Dr. Setsuko Suma, is called in to solve the case. However, she is just as baffled about the crimes and seeks the help of her ex-lover, Rei Aku (a cult deprogrammer). Things begin to tense up as Suma feels she is becoming more and more like the serial killer and as Aku tortures her with mind games.
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Director : Shogo Ishii
Cast : Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryoko Takizawa, Masayuki Shionoya, Toshinori Kondo
(132 min)
2000 - Horror, Gore - Japan
The police discover a mysterious murder, a man with the top of his head cut off and his brain gone. During the coming week many other similar murders are committed each more gruesome than the next. A suspect is found but the murders continue and the police suspect a copycat but two detectives, closely following the case, believe something of a more supernatural nature is going on. (Take note, the story in the review was keep to minimum to not expose any spoiler)
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Director : George Iida
Cast : Yousuke Eguchi, Miwako Ichikawa, Yoshio Harada, Takashi Kashiwabara
(98 min)
2006 - Horror - South Korea
So-Young and her rookie assistant are investigating a series of bizarre (bloodless!) murders. All the victims seem to have died due to an acid released in their bodies. But wait a minute: what about the ghost-girl we see during each uninspired death scene? As they discover more about the case, they come to realize that the victims are somehow related to a young girl's death ten years ago. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to decide that it must be her ghost avenging upon the miscreants. Or, perhaps this whole ghost-thing is just a sham, and a human agent is behind it all? Will 90 minutes be enough to unravel this complicated mystery???
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Director : Ahn Sang Hoon
Cast : Dong-Wook Lee, Jong-su Lee, Yun-ah Song
(95 min)
2004 - Horror - Thailand
A cute girl is unceremoniously dumped by her lover when her pregnancy is discovered. The lover just happens to be married and very rich. He agrees to pay a large sum for her abortion, but later proceeds to invite a bunch of friends to rape her (while he shoots all of it with his digital camera). The reasoning for this? 'To get his money's worth', of course. And also, to introduce himself as a hateful scumbag so that he can become a perfect victim for her revenge by means of black magic. The girl pays a witch-doctor to put a curse on the whole family, but their bloody deaths are only the beginning. When the family's cousins take over the mansion, she wants it for herself, and places a new curse on all of them...
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Director : Thanit Jitnukul
Cast : Supaksork Chaimongkon, Arisa Will Somchai, Sathutham Krongthong
(100 min)
2006 - Horror, Gore - Thailand
Six youngsters, friends from high school, re-unite two years after graduating in order to pay respects to the deceased father of one of them. They travel to his home, deep in the jungle, but pretty soon forget all about the dead father since their own lives are at stake. One by one they are afflicted by a black magic curse (that's the 'art of the devil' from the title) which makes them die in many colorful ways. Since they're trapped in the shack and its immediate vicinity by surrounding swamps all they can do is run around, scream a lot and accuse one another for various tresspasses from the past. It's payback time now. So, sit back and enjoy making bets as to 'who gets it next and what will be left of them'.
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Director : The Ronin Team
Cast : Napakapapar Nakaprasit, Namo Tongkumnerd, Hataiwan Ngam Sukonpusit
(116 min)
1999 - Horror - Japan
Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) is simple widower living a lonely life with his son, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki). Going off an idea from his producer friend, Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kinimura), Aoyama decides to participate in a fake audition in order to find a suitable woman to remarry. Though innocent in execution, Aoyama is successful in the mock audition and finds a beautiful girl by the name of Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina), who seems more than what she portrays herself to be. Filmed with unbridled ferocity and unrestrained intensity, Takashi Miike presents his horror magnum opus, "Audition."
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Director : Takashi Miike
Cast : Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda
(90 min)
2000 - Horror - Hong Kong
Dr. Harry a scientist working for the US government is infected with a prototype virus that is being developed to make un killable super soldiers. He travels back to Hong Kong where he has a friend who has some advanced knowledge concerning the Virus. Dr. Harry gets in trouble with some triads after a quick fight where the Triads get beaten up the police come and arrest everyone. While in prison the virus changes Dr. Harry into a zombie and he starts infecting others.
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Director : Steve Cheng
Cast : Stephen Fung, Sam Lee, Chan Wai, Alice Chan, Lai Chun, Hui Siu-Hung
(93 min)
1998 - Horror, Comedy - Hong Kong
Two guys that run a VCD shop in a shopping mall take their boss's car to get it repaired, on their way back they run over a guy. They rush to his help and the guy whispers something about a soft drink (chemical weapon) he was carrying. They make him drink some but he dies soon after and they decide to leave the body in the trunk of the car. They return to the shopping mall and go back to work, after a while they remember they forgot the body in the car and decide to check on it. When they arrive to the car the body is gone, and soon after the mall is crawling with Zombies. They find other survivors and fight for their lives to try to get out.
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Director : Wilson Yip
Cast : Frankie Chan, Jordan Chan, Kam-Tsing Cheung, Bie Fai, Suk-Yin Lai, Yiu-Jeung Lai
(90 min)
1995 - Horror, Drama, Documentary - China
December 1937, Japanese troops invade China and take over the capital of Nanking. In the ensuing six weeks, 300 000 Chinese will die at the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Not only will Chinese soldiers will be killed, but also innocent civilians. Men, women and children will be killed and tortured in one of the most atrocious episodes of human cruelty.
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Director : Tun Fei Mou
(133 min)
2004 - Thriller, Horror - Japan
Asuka is a model and dancer, left without a place to stay in Tokyo. She starts sharing an apartment belonging to a friend's friend, Kasumi, who at the start is not too friendly, and obviously has a baggage of problems of her own. The troubles begin when Asuka witnesses a gruesome killing across the street from Kasumi's apartment: through the window she spots a lean woman dressed in black leather slicing a tied-up man with a scalpel. When the police arrive at the scene, they find a man meticulously disemboweled, with voodoo symbols carved into his skin. An inspector follows the psycho-cult lead by going to a mysterious expert on such matters, while a young paparazzo (Tatsuo) is always near the death scenes. Other bodies appear (some sent by regular mail directly to the police), all cut and decorated into morbid works of art, with a kiss left with black lipstick on white paper next to each body…
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Director : Makoto Tezuka
Cast : Reika Hashimoto, Kaori Kawamura, Masanobu Ando
(84 min)
1969 - Horror - Japan
Michio, a blind sculptor, takes interest in a young model named Aki when he hears of her stunning body and inspects an art exhibit featuring photographs and a sculpture of the beauty. Disguised as her masseuse, he enters her apartment and kidnaps her with help from his mother. Aki is then dropped into a hell of art and lust while locked in his studio as his ultimate model, facing new depths of human behavior.
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Director : Yasuzo Masumura
Cast : Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
(74 min)
2005 - Thriller, Horror - Japan
An elderly radio host receives a phone call from his long-dead girlfriend. An old death pact is fulfilled now, 30 years later, when he hangs himself in the very booth of his radio station. Some time later here comes Sogo, a much younger host, to work in the same booth on a late night show about cruel words and deeds experienced in love relationships. How convenient a topic – and even more convenient are the stories of Sogo's callers which seem to coincide with some of his own cruelties. As the night progresses, the calls are interrupted by the female voice which calls him a 'liar' and certain dark secrets come to the surface with the help of what seem to be supernatural agencies...
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Director : Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast : Ryuta Sato, Maiko Asano, Makoto Ashikawa, Mansaku Ikeuchi
(103 min)
2000 - Horror, Thriller - Japan
A detective is sent on leave after messing up a hostage situation. He decides to leave the city and end up in the wilderness not so far from the hostage incident. After getting lost and spending the night in the forest he meets a group of tree planters and is told about a lunatic who protects a strange tree. The detectives goes and meets the strange hermit who protects the tree and befriends him, together they try to nurse the tree back to health. It seems everyone is interested in that tree which is called Charisma, from the tree planters to a professor of botany. As the days goes by the detective uncovers that it is more of a sick obsession that everyone has rather than a simple interest.
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Director : Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Cast : Yakusho Koji, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Fubuki Jun, Osugi Ren, Doguchi Yoriko
(93 min)
1987 - Swordplay, Drama, Horror - Hong Kong
Ning Tsai-Shen (Leslie Cheung) is a roving tax collector that arrives in a small town but misfortune would have it that his tax documents are ruined. Having no money to pay for a room he stays at an old abandoned temple in the woods outside of town. That very night Ning Tsai-Shen encounters what he believes is a bandit, the swordsman Yen Che-Hsia (Wu Ma) who warms him that there is trouble in the area and that he should leave. Later that very night Ning is charmed by lovely music that is played by the beautiful Hsiao-Tsing (Joey Wang) who is in fact a ghost out to trick men and steal their life energy, the poor Ning quickly falls in love and a tale and danger and passion awaits him.
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Director : Ching Siu Tung
Cast : Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma, Dawai Hu, Jin Jiang, Siu-Ming Lau
(88 min)
1994 - Horror, Drama, Cat. III - Hong Kong
Little Cabbage, a shy and delicate maiden, appears in the martial court suspected of murdering her husband. Ng, her former master is also suspected of being involved in the murder, and apparently they were secret lovers. During the Ching Dynasty, the authorities were very nasty and didn’t want to waste time in trial so they used a lot of imaginative and violent ways to make the suspect confess. Little Cabbage and Ng will be tortured until they admit that they killed Little Cabbage’s husband. However, despite the torture, both of them maintain their claim that they never did it and that they are being framed. If they are telling the truth, then who is the real killer?
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Director : Bosco Lam
Cast : Yvonne Yung Hung, Lawrence Ng Kai Wah, Tommy Wong Kwong Leung, Ching Mai, Wong Tak Bun, Yuen King Tan
(97 min)
2006 - Horror, Drama - South Korea
Hyunsu has a close relationship with her mother Yoon Hee, who's job is a plastic surgeon. Yoon Hee has performed surgery on some of her daughters friends, and everyone is shocked when one of these young girls dies in mysterious circumstances. Although the incidence is viewed as a tragic accident, when more of the group of friends start to die it becomes clear that it cannot be a coincidence. Hyunsu begins to suspect that her mother may understand more about the events than she admits...
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Director : Bong Man-dae
Cast : Do Ji-won, Shin Se-kyung
(95 min)
2000 - Horror, Black Comedy - Japan
Satomi peacefully lives in a small house with her mother and sister. However, her older brother, who disappeared when the police accused him of murdering four young school girls, has disturbed their peaceful living. Their house is now in constant surveillance by the press, in addition to prank calls and rocks thrown by townsfolk. Satomi decides to ask the help of two psychic mediums to find out who is the real killer and where her missing brother is. However, the mediums methods seem a bit suspicious to Satomi at first, but it doesn’t take long before things go out of control and the two mediums have full power over the small family. With the help of a special FBI team and her newly discovered hidden psychic power, Satomi will try to fight back the two mediums before they fulfill their deadly plan.
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Director : Hirohisa Sasaki
Cast : Hitomi Miwa, Kazuma Suzuki, Ren Osugi, Hiroshi Abe, Hijiri Natsukawa, Yoshiko Yura
(96 min)
1991 - Horror, Comedy, Asian Related - Hong Kong
‘The One Eyebrow Priest’ has to transport a subdued vampire from England to China, but when the plane crashes in rural Africa, a local tribe has to deal with the fact that there is a vampire on the loose.
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Director : Billy Chan
Cast : Lam Ching Ying, Nixau, Peter Chan
(112 min)
1997 - Horror, Thriller - Japan
Takabe is investigating mysterious murders with the help of a friend who is a psychologist. The only link between the murders is an X shape incision at the neck and chest. What makes no sense is the fact there is no link or motive for the suspects, nor do the suspects know why they did the terrible act. As they continue their investigation they suspect a far more sinister element at work.
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Director : Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast : Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Masato Hagiwara, Ren Osugi, Anna Nakagawa
(90 min)
1999 - Horror, Action, Science Fiction - Japan
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Kawamata and Professor Matsuzaki stole a prototype combat suit and fled to Japan. They set up a secret bunker and continued working on the Robotic Battle Suit. Kawamata had his prayers answered with the appearance of a giant monster in Tokyo, he has been desperately waiting to test his suit out. Kawamata readies his suit and heads off to challenge the monster.
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Director : Shojiro Kasai
Cast : Daisuke Nagakura, Masanori Machida, Daisuke Iishima, Yoko Ohshima, Yukiko Nakamura, Keiji Uchida
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