Latest Asian Horror Movie Reviews
I desperately want to do something. Anything will do. I want to suppress this urge.
Posted on 01/09/2012 by Hellbound Heart
Say what you like about Japanese director Shion Sono, but let's all agree on one thing: he doesn't care for drab opening scenes. This much is true of the staggering Guilty of Romance (2011), the first film I have seen of this year and undoubtedly one which will wind up on my top films list at the en...
Read More "Guilty Of Romance"It's Always a Pleasure
Posted on 12/19/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It is a common occurrence for movies to be confused about their target audience. Having said that, it is not often that a movie's “target audience confusion” covers an entertainment spectrum spanning pre-teens, gore lovers and creepy perverts. Erotibot falls foul to this level of confusion but is ab...
Read More "Erotibot"You will soon forget your god and cling to me like a bitch!
Posted on 12/15/2011 by Hellbound Heart
Fashion Hell
Posted on 11/20/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Just when the market for crazy Japanese splatter was about to become saturated beyond the help of even the most absorbent kitchen towels, Jun Tsugita added some unique originality to the sub-genre with the highly peculiar Horny House of Horror AKA Fashion Hell (Fasshon heru). Usually Tsugita stays a...
Read More "Horny House Of Horror"Some rentals are too good to be true
Posted on 07/11/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
When the made-up term "hair horror" is thrown at movie fanatics, brain scientists maybe estimate that 85% will immediately visualise the stereotypical Asian ghost, the wicked 10% visualise the ungroomed bush popular in 70s exploitation while 5% insist that horror is all around us and we should comba...
Read More "Apartment 1303 (1303 Goshitsu)"Drop Dead Beautiful
Posted on 04/25/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The more prolific half of the Pang Brothers released Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) in 2004. Oxide Pang Chun seems to be unsure whether he wants to make a morbid documentation of an obsessive photographer’s fascination with death or a slasheresque snuff movie... so he does both. Rather than clum...
Read More "Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei Mong Se Jun)"Victoria Number 1
Posted on 04/06/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Dream Home (Wai dor lei ah yut ho) is a Hong Kong horror from director Ho-Cheung Pang and the first feature length movie from the production company of Josie Ho, who also assumes the leading role. The movie is a combination of cultural satire, fun-poking at stereotypes and absurd yet stylish gore. T...
Read More "Dream Home (Wai Dor Lei Ah Yut Ho)"One size kills all.
Posted on 02/20/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
South Korean director Kim Yong-gyun manages to put atmospheric and creepy back into the Asian horror template with a sinister movie interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale "The Red Shoes". Despite the story revolving around a pair of pink shoes (to which all characters refer to as red)...
Read More "The Red Shoes (Bunhongsin)"Nikkatsu Violent Pink
Posted on 01/12/2011 by Hellbound Heart
Time for some hyper-real 70s Nikkatsu "roman porno" in Assault! Jack the Ripper (Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku) - here is a world of jaded sexual appetites, bad hair and gratuitous patisserie, brought to you by the inimitable worldwide-weird specialists Mondo Macabro.We start by meeting a disgruntled, rather ...
Read More "Assault! Jack The Ripper"Rebuilt Robotically for Revenge
Posted on 01/10/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
From the extended two sets of opening credits at the beginning of Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine (also known as Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine in Daehakroh or more commonly known as Daehakno-yeseo maechoon-hadaka tomaksalhae danghan yeogosaeng ajik Daehakno-ye Issda) it is apparent...
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