Archive

Author Archive

A Slit-Mouthed Woman 2 (Japanese) 2008

March 7th, 2010

aka: Carved 2  |  The Scissors Massacre  |  Kuchisake-Onna 2
Year: 2009
Directed: Kôtarô Terauchi
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 01:38
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English  |  Chinese
Cast: Rin Asuka, Yukie Kawamura,  Erina, Yosuke Saito, Mayuko Iwasa, Masashi Taniguchi

Synopsis / Plot

Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town of Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film Korea Tags:

Train of the Dead (Thai) 2007

March 7th, 2010

AKA: Chum thaang rot fai phii
Directed: Sukhum Mathawanit
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Year: 2007
Runtime: 01:21
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subtitles: English
Cast: Kett Thantup, Savika Chaiyadej, Sura Theerakon, Chaleumpol Tikumpornteerawong, Yarichada Wattanawongsri, Phoomjai Tangsanga

Synopsis:

A thief gang flees from the police and catches a night train with Toe, an unlucky guy who is now their hostage. [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film Thailand Tags:

Naked Blood/Nekeddo burâddo: Megyaku (1995)

March 7th, 2010

Naked Blood
AKA: Nekeddo burâddo: Megyaku
Year: 1995
Directed: Hisayasu Sato
Cast: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe, Masumi Nakao
Tadashi Shiraishi,Seiya Hiramatsu
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Rated: USA Unrated (contains violence, gore, nuidity)
Runtime: 76 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English soft sub

Synopsis

Eiji is a young and determined amateur scientist; his ultimate goal at the present is to develop [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film Japan Tags:

Tokyo Psycho / Tôkyô densetsu: ugomeku machi no kyôki (2004)

March 7th, 2010

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English soft sub
Genre: Horror
Released: 2004
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Screeplayn: Noriko Tanimura
Footage: Satoshi Nishimura
Length: 78 min
Cast:
Sachiko Kokubu- Yumiko Osawa
Seiji Chihara- Keisuke Kataoka
Yuka Hayashi- Mika Nakahara
Mizuho Nakamura- Moe Masumoto
Masashi Taniguchi- Osamu Komiya

Synopsis

Yumiko Oosawa (Sachiko Kokubu) is a pretty young designer whose life is turned upside down by a stalker in Ataru Oikawa’s spare, [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film Japan Tags:

Where Got Ghost? (Singapore) 2009

March 7th, 2010

AKA: Xia Dao Xiao
Directed: Jack Neo, Boris Boo
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Shorts
Runtime: 01:41:35
Country: Singapore
Language: Hokien, Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Chinese, Malay
Cast:  Marcus Chin, Cheng John, Ming Lai, Zha Bor Lao, Mark Lee, Ru Ping Lin

Synopsis / Plot

Roadside Got Ghost
Swindlers Cai, Fu and Shou have a new scam – using a hotline to make random calls to [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film Singapore Tags:

Move Away from the Spy Next Door

February 19th, 2010

“To have any hope of enduring this film, you must abandon all expectations of reason, logic, or laughter. ”

When Jackie Chan gave up on acting and decided to retire, he didn’t issue a press release, he made The Spy Next Door. The message is poignant and unmistakable: I give up. I have been defeated. [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film US Tags: , ,

Book of Eli More Parable than Actioner

February 19th, 2010

“The Book of Eli is a calm and focused treat.”

There’s a theory which states that in times of war and famine, it is the good people who die first. You’ve probably heard The Piano Man sing about it, but it basically follows that the sort of person able to survive times of great strife [...]

Read More >>

Precious Impresses

February 19th, 2010

“Gabourey Sidibe deserves the Oscar nomination she has coming to her.”

If I had known what Precious was about, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to see it. Just too dark and depressing. You can’t really tell a story like Precious (which joins a list of film titles I will never — ever — pronounce in [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film US Tags: ,

Jeff Bridges Is Crazy Good in Crazy Heart

February 19th, 2010

“Almost too pleasant for its own good.”

Crazy Heart has been compared to The Wrestler in terms of plot and characters, but the tone is completely different. The Wrestler was a heavy, mostly very serious movie. Crazy Heart, though also about a washed-up performer trying to redeem himself, treats everything lightly, even superficially. In fact, [...]

Read More >>

Author: admin Categories: Film US Tags: , ,

Youth in Revolt an Adorable Dark Comedy

February 19th, 2010

“Charmingly depraved in all the best ways.”

In 1993, C.D. Payne penned a massive tome of a book, which turned out to be one of the craziest portraits of juvenile haphazard delinquency ever to hit the market — Youth in Revolt. In 2009 it finally became a movie. The book is rich with the sort [...]

Read More >>