May 2008 Asian Horror Movie Reviews
Psycho Cyborgs from Japan
Posted on 05/17/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
From the opening scene Meatball Machine bombards the viewer with over the top violence, gore and brutality. The cover art is enough to inspire any Asian horror movie fan to want to see more. The story, although typically Manga craziness, is quite ingenious and typically horror movie style pointlessn...
Read More "Meatball Machine"Disgusting and Disturbing Asian Horror
Posted on 05/18/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Fruit Chan brings us a disgusting slice of twisted Asian horror with Dumplings (Gaau ji). A lot of attention has gone into this movie to make it gag-worthy and it definitely is, but we also have a highly original and well executed storyline depicting a scenario bordering on potential reality far fro...
Read More "Dumplings"Death Is Only The Beginning
Posted on 05/22/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Reincarnation (Rinne) is a chilling J-Horror from Takashi Shimizu (director of Ju-On: The Grudge, Ju-On 2 and Marebito) and once again he does not let us down. Reincarnation is a typical supernatural J-Horror but that is far from a criticism, this movie is directed in a way that creeps you out rathe...
Read More "Reincarnation"They didn't see something that terrified them. They saw something because they were terrified.
Posted on 05/25/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Takashi Shimizu (director of Ju-On: The Grudge and Reincarnation) brings us an original J-Horror movie by the name of Marebito AKA (The Stranger from Afar). The movie takes the humble vampire movie in a new direction, in a Japanese kind of way, but is much less focused on the supernatural ghosts and...
Read More "Marebito"She always gets her part
Posted on 05/25/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Takashi Miike's Audition has to be one of my all time favorite Asian horror movies, there are probably a number of reasons for this. On my first viewing I was shocked more than I had ever been before by a movie, Audition gave me my first taste of the extremities to which a Japanese horror movie coul...
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