Asian Horror Movie Reviews from Nov 2008
Reviews
The Last Call You'll Ever Get ...
Posted on 11/23/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
South Korean director Byeong-ki Ahn delivers another disturbingly spooky horror movie about phones... aptly titled Phone (Pon). Steeped in Korean folklore, Phone brings the kind of terror that fans of the genre have come to expect from Korea. There is nothing exceedingly original about this movie an...
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Some things are better left unseen
Posted on 11/23/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Gin gwai (or as it is more commonly known in this neck of the woods – The Eye) is a horror movie of the supernatural variety from the masters of horror the Pang brothers (Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang). Followed by three sequels (The Eye 2, The Eye 3 and Eye 10) and remade twice (India's Naina in 2...
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Su-chang Kong's Supernatural War Horror
Posted on 11/14/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
R-Point is a supernatural horror movie from South Korea set in Vietnam War surroundings (and filmed in Cambodia). As is common in K-Horror the movie is much darker than its Japanese counterparts and, although the movie is quite low on gore and the scares are quite subtle, the overall eeriness of the...
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