Thursday, October 28, 2010

MAG-INGAT KA SA... KULAM

Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam is a 2008 Filipino horror film directed by Jun Lana, and starring Judy Ann Santos, Dennis Trillo, and Kris Bernal.

Right after surviving a car accident, Mira awakens in a hospital suffering from amnesia. As she regains pieces of her life with her husband and blind daughter, she starts to be haunted by a creepy-looking woman dressed in white. The situation becomes even more weird as she discovers she has a mentally unstable sister. Desperate to find the truth about her and her life before the accident, Mira is forced to confront evil spirits and herself in order to discover the real story.

Monday, September 13, 2010

PARADISE VILLA

Paradise Villa is a 2001 South Korean drama|horror film directed by Chong-won Park, and starring Han-jun Jo, You-Mi Ha, and Seung-chae Lee.

The film focuses on a day in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in suburban Seoul. During this day, people are gathered in their homes to watch the soccer match between South Korea and Japan. However, while everybody is enjoying the game, an online gamer who seems to have just lost his mind is in the premises in quest for a powerful weapon he needs to finish his game. Somehow the lines between the virtual and real world are gone, and the man thinks the weapon is located somewhere within Paradise Villa, and is owned by a man nicknamed "Viagra". The crazy gamer begins to kill what his mind is recognizing as his enemies, innocent apartment tenants who are violently murdered one by one.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

STACY: ATTACK OF THE SCHOOLGIRL ZOMBIES

Stacy: Attack Of The Schoolgirl Zombies is a 2001 Japanese black comedy|zombie film directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, and starring Natsuki Kato, Toshinori Omi, Tomoka Hayashi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Hinako Saeki.

"Stacys" are young adolescent girls who, after dying during an extreme happiness outbreak, come back to life and become flesh-eating zombies. However, as opposed to many other films in the genre, the girls don't seem to be able to contaminate others by biting them. Because of this course on humanity, the world's population has been decreasing and so has the birth rate. One girl, named Eiko, decides to find herself someone who can commit to killing her right after she turns into a zombie. So, after she meets Shibukawa, everything goes from carnage to romance.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

KICHIKU DAI ENKAI

Kichiku Dai Enkai is a 1997 Japanese drama|splatter film written and directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, and starring Shigeru Bokuda, Toshiyuki Sugihara, Sumiko Mikami, and Shunsuke Sawada.

The film is about a group of gangsters who, while waiting for their leader Aizawa to be released from prison, go out of control. The group is left under the orders of Aizaw's girlfriend whose promiscuity makes him go crazy in jail and ultimately commits suicide. The band then begins to be torn apart by constant quarrels among its members. Soon, the group totally loses control and falls into a frenzy of self-destruction, ultra-violence and paranoia.

Friday, August 6, 2010

CHINESE TORTURE CHAMBER STORY 2

Chinese Torture Chamber Story 2 is a 1998 Hong Kong drama|adventure film directed by Kin-Nam Cho, and starring Mark Cheng, Wai Lam, and Yolinda Yam.

While taking a bath in the river, Ma Sun Yee realizes he’s being robbed by the Wong Chung and Cheung Man Cheong, two local inept thieves. However, convinced by Ma's compassion for their predicament, Wong and Cheung invite him into their house. There, he meets Wong's sister, and Cheung's future wife, Lotus. Ma immediately falls in love with the girl; but nobody suspects that he bears a dark secret. Nevertheless, the three men pledge an alliance. Later, all of a sudden, Ma turns into a very changed man as he becomes governor. With Lotus in his mind, he takes the brothers in arms, setting up a scheme to get rid of his attackers and ultimately fulfill his own deviant sexual ambitions.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

A CHINESE TORTURE CHAMBER STORY

A Chinese Torture Chamber Story is a 1994 Hong Kong drama|black comedy film directed by Bosco Lam, and starring Julie Lee, Siu-Kei Lee, and Yvonne Yung Hung.

A young woman is hired to work for a rich guy as one of his many servants. The master's wife immediately becomes jealous of the new girl due to her man constantly looking at her mainly because of her tiny feet. The wife then decides to murder the servant's future husband and blame it on her own husband and the new servant-girl. Once caught, both the master and the young girl become the victims of terrible tortures applied by the tribunal in charge of the case.

Monday, August 2, 2010

MUZAN E

Muzan E is a 1999 Japanese horror|splatter film directed by Daisuke Yamanouchi, and starring Yuki Emoto, Naohi Hirakawa, and Ken'ichi Kanbe.

A Japanese reporter investigating some very bizarre, underground hardcore porn films comes across the existence of a snuff film. As she starts investigating, she begins to interview some people involved in the porn industry but eventually, the makers of the snuff film get really mad at her. When she gets really close to finding the responsible of the snuff film, they decide it's about time to take actions against her.

EMBALMING

Embalming (a.k.a. EM Embalming) is a 1999 Japanese thriller|drama film directed by Shinji Aoyama, and starring Kojiro Hongo, Masatoshi Matsuo, and Yutaka Matsushige.

Miyako, a very well-known embalmer, is requested to embalm the body of a very wealthy young man who has recently passed away. However, since the very first moment Miyako begins her job, weird things begin to happen including the strange intervention of a shady Buddhist priest. But everything worsens the moment the head of the corpse goes missing; everything seems to point at the ex-girlfriend of the deceased boy as the only suspect. Miyako then decides to join inspector Kurume to try and find the missing head and finish what she started.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

WOMEN'S FLESH: MY RED GUTS

Women's Flesh: My Red Guts (a.k.a. Hungry Mouth) is a 1999 Japanese splatter|horror film directed by Tamakichi Anaru.

The film is actually just a couple of sequences depicting how two seemingly desperate and mentally disturbed women mutilate and ultimately killed themselves. The footage has no dialogs and the two shorts have no connection between them. This movie, unlike Anaru's previous film Niku Daruma, has no plot whatsoever.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

GIRL HELL 1999

Girl Hell 1999 (a.k.a. Girlschool Hell) is a 1999 Japanese horror film written and directed by Daisuke Yamanouchi, and starring Yôko Satomi, Kana Sakurai, and Sheena Nagamori.

The film centers on a school girl who everyday has to witness how her drunken father rapes her injured, all-covered-in-bandage sister. Besides such an awful family picture, the girl also has some mom issues as she hasn't been able to forget how her mother abandoned her and her sister when they where little. Due to her constant thoughts about her mother, the girl develops a strange relationship with a homeless woman of whom she even gets breastfed. Even though things seem impossible to be worse, the obsession of a rapist towards the young girl becomes terribly dangerous when he approaches her to ask her for a date and she decides never to show up. Soon, she will be involved in a chain of unpleasant situations of which she seems unlikely to even make it alive.

Monday, July 26, 2010

SATSU SATSU (AYAME)

Satsu Satsu (Ayame) (a.k.a. Suicide Dolls) is a 1999 Japanese gore|horror film directed by Tamakichi Anaru, and starring Shino Setsuna.

The film comprises three short stories depicting three different ways in which three young women commit suicide.
Tenchuu: A solitary woman finds a gun in a box while organizing some boxes in her apartment and after further considerations, decides to shoot herself.
Sabaki: After a fight with her husband, a desperate woman chooses the ultimate way out and decides to hang herself off the door frame.
Kyôen: With the support from a film crew a woman is assisted in committing Harakiri in front of a camera. 

Sunday, July 25, 2010

AI NO KORÎDA

 Ai no Korida (a.k.a. In The Realm Of The Senses) is a 1976 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ôshima, and starring Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, and Yasuko Matsui.

The film is the adaptation of a very famous incident that occurred in Japan, involving a woman named Sada Abe. The films revolves around the character of Abe and her intense affair with the owner of the hotels where she works at, Kichizo Ishida. The couple maintain an increasingly possessive and extreme relationship, to the point that Ishida starts to develop a strange obsession for being strangled during lovemaking with Abe.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

DEVIL EYE

Devil Eye is a 2001 Hong Kong horror film directed by Man Kei Chin, and starring Cindy Au, Iris Chai, Tat-Ming Cheung, and Ann Ng.

A group of friends decide to leave their native Hong Kong and embark on a field trip to Thailand. During their very first day in the streets of Bangkok, one of the girls is filming the landmarks and monuments around the city and accidentally ends up recording how a woman is mugged and ultimately thrown in front of a car that runs her over and kills her. From that very first moment the girl is tormented by the spirit of the dead girl who lures her into a dark alley where she encounters the assassin and is killed by the same man. At the end it seems that it is up to the friends of the dead girl to find out who the assassin is in order to avenge their friend.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

PRIMITIF


Primitif is a 1978 Indonesian horror film directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra, and starring Enny Haryono, Barry Prima, and Johann Mardjono.

Three college students and their guide decide to get into the jungle to search and study some primitive tribes. When they arrive in a strange village, they think the tribe isn't primitive enough, and that they need to find some real savages, maybe even locate a legendary cannibal tribe still living in the area. However, on their way to explore they have a raft accident and Robert and Rita get stranded in the jungle. Soon, they are captured by the savages and are held prisoners; without any chance of escaping, they trust in Tommy, their friend, to come and save them.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

VISITOR Q


Visitor Q is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, and starring Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô, and Fujiko.

The film is one of the most disturbing and taboo-bashing experimental works from acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike. The film tells about a very dysfunctional family, with a prostitute daughter, a bullied son who beats up his mom, a drug addict mother, and a father whose job has made him become obsessed with weird human behavior. One day, unexpectedly, the father comes home with a nameless guy who ends up changing everybody's life.