Asian Horror Movie Reviews from Aug 2009
Dead Evil Hunting
Posted on 08/31/2009 by Horror Extreme
It is sometimes difficult to get away from the long-haired ghost girls in Japanese horror but if you look beneath the mainstream there are often little hidden gems amongst the plethora of superstitious, folklore inspired supernatural J-Horror. One such gem is Junk: Shiryô-gari, Atsushi Muroga's excu...
Read More "Junk"More Craziness from Takashi Miike
Posted on 08/27/2009 by Horror Extreme
Never known to conform (well maybe One Missed Call was conforming), the crazy brain of Takashi Miike delivers another 1.48333 hours of Yakuza profoundness with Gozu (Gokudo kyofu dai-gekijo: Gozu, which translates as Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow's Head). The movie starts off as a peculi...
Read More "Gozu (Gokudo Kyofu Dai-Gekijo: Gozu)"King of Japanese Grotesque Movie
Posted on 08/21/2009 by Horror Extreme
With all the surrounding hype and it's UK banning by the BBFC, extreme horror fan's expectations have been set quite high for Kôji Shiraishi's Japanese exploitation flick Grotesque (Gurotesuku). It is a travesty that the movie was banned for trivial reasons such as being "an unrelenting and escalati...
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