Asian Horror Movie Reviews from Apr 2009
Reviews
Crazy Metal Fetishism
Posted on 04/24/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a very trippy 1989 black and white movie from Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto with a very arthouse feel to it. Concerned with imagery and symbolism rather than a coherent and straightforward storyline, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a bizarre yet metaphorical ride through the cru...
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Posted on 04/21/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Even with its PG-13 rating, Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) still manages to be a very unsettling movie and is one of the original influences (along with Ring) on what has become the current commercially accessible J-Horror formula. Dark Water was one of the first mainstream Japanese horror...
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Posted on 04/04/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Considering Evil Dead Trap (Shiryo no wana) was made in 1988 is still kicks the ass of many of the recent cookie-cut J-Horrors. Rather than being a supernatural tale steeped in folklore and overrun by long haired apparitions (as we have come to expect from Japanese horror), Evil Dead Trap is more re...
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