What did you think?

It was OK. I wasn't blown away by it or creeped out by it at all. The makeup on the ghost was terrible. Very cartoonish.

Oof. I think I'll skip it, then. ;)

I didn't want to just come out and say it, but yeah, you're probably better off skipping it.

Hey, how's the leg?

Doing much better, thank you! I can wear heels now. ;)

How are you doing? Get that cool tat yet??

That's awesome! I'm glad you're all healed now!

No tat yet....I'll post a pic when I DO get it.

what tat u getting hammer ?

This one:

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthre...=33520&page=18

i like that, looks very nice. do u like kats.

:D Just a little :D

LOL - No, she's definitely a dog person. :rolleyes::p

ROFLMAO! Sorry, lee, if it seems like we're making fun. Most people on this forum know that I'm a CCL (Crazy Cat Lady).

:D:D:D:D that's fine ;)

grotesque

biggest load of rubbish i have ever watched, wasted 90 mins of my life on this :mad:

Jigoku

This movie took me a couple days to watch because i fell asleep three times just trying to get through it. It takes forever to get to the point, a whole hour goes by before we get to Hell which would be fine for story building but everything that happens before is so pointless and ridiculous that it just drags on. The characters are over the top and annoying and it took everything i had to not turn the movie off during one of the film's many bouts of overacting. I dont understand why the main character is even in Hell. It seems like he is sent there for being unlucky. Everything that happens to him isnt his fault at all. The part of the movie in Hell is really stupid although it was an interesting view on it. I never thought a horror movie about Hell would be so artsy and pretentious though.

u did better than me, i turned it of after half hour.

I considered it but i really wanted to know what their idea of Hell was

my girl and i

had to watch it with my wife, nice romantic movie.

Have you seen Ghost Train?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819839/


I thought that was a pretty good "hell" movie. Or what the hell it was at the end??

Thanks, i'll check it out and let you know what i think.

if that is the korean movie u are on bout yes, i thought it was very good.

I believe it's japanese actually.

yeah u r right, i not seen that one i was thinking of red eye.
i will check ghost train out, cheers dude.
check red eye out.

I have. It sucked. But thanks.

haha lol same as what i thought heathen ;)

Kikujiro

this was a very nice movie.

I Saw the Devil (2010)

FINALLY got around to watching this movie and... Wow.

To say that I was impressed - To say that my jaw dropped a few times - To say that that held some of the some of the best performances that I've ever seen... All understatements.

As it's been mentioned, part of what makes this movie so incredibly powerful are the intense and gripping performances by Min-sik Choi (absolutely chilling) and Byung-hun Lee (agonizingly biting) - I was particularly impressed with the latter, who shines as the haunted victim, resolute on revenge. His fierce and unblinking demeanor was horrifying as he descends into tragic anti-hero-dom.

In terms of direction, each scene was filmed with deliberate ease. The writing and the story and the ending - oh God the superlative ending - All well done. This tale unravels slowly, with delightfully shocking peaks and climaxes until the pinnacle scene of perfect vengeance... My jaw did truly drop a few times... Great suspense and action interlaced with poetic tragic drama - Definitely an epic Korean Revenge flick, up there with The Vengeance Trilogy, though less playful.

Fantastic film - HIGHLY recommended.

5/5.

Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster

After a hard day, sitting down with a beer and watching a Godzilla movie is exactly what i needed. No matter how stupid and silly these movies can be at times i love them. They are why i love giant monster movies.

Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Nights (2010)

While the American PA2 was a parallel prequel story of the original but this one is a sequel where the events happens around with a Japanese brother & sister. Haruka (the sister) has returned to Tokyo after getting involved in a severe car accident in San Diego, California where she was studying. She broke both of her legs in the car crash and is now recuperating at her younger brother Koichi's house in Tokyo. Now that accidents actually connect it with the original PA as news report says that Haruka hit Katie with her car in that accident as Katie was running away after "killing" her boyfriend, Micah. Haruka guessed that the supposed demon that possessed Katie has now latched on to her (& fly over to Tokyo with her without having a visa or even a plane ticket!:D).

There are some solid creepy encounters here also, especially there's a nice scene when the Haruka was pulled by her hair and dragged from the bed, somewhat like dragging Katie's ankle from the bed in the original. But the ending is here overdone, they tried to show too much, IMO. Especially I don't get who's corpse was it in the morgue?

Not a bad entry for the series, kinda interesting but obviously could have been better.

>>: B-

Actually sat down and watched Audition. It was good psychological suspense drama. More of a gross-out horror film than a "I can't sleep tonight" film. Recommended for the great writing. =)

Death Bell

Set in a school among a class of "elite students" that are being killed off one by one in various grisly methods, for some unknown reason.

This is the first Asian film I've watched that didn't thoroughly enthrall me. I found it to be rather mundane, though it was well acted and directed,. It just didn't capture my imagination. It didn't have the layers of subtext I'm used to discovering in Asian cinema.

Oh, that's just a decent slasher with some SAW flavor.

You should check out the following...I'm not assuring completely but at least some of them will give you some good hour of entertainment as well as 'something' to think about:

• Cold Fish
• The Chaser
• I saw the devil
• Our Town
• Revenge: A Love story
• The Unjust
• Princess Aurora

The interesting thing is you may see a trend in the recent Asian movies...particularly in Korean films: the rising genre of Serial Killer films. Few months back I tried to do some online research to find out why there are so many movies about serial killer are coming now from Asia...(particularly Korea) today? We only know about 2 films that inspired by real life serial killer cases (Memories of Murder & The Chaser) but what's the actual reasons for the film makers that's inspiring them to go with this genre more often? Is there really any social context or scenario of serial killers in Korea that made some sort of affects on cinema??

At first I couldn't find any single article about this particular topic. But I even tried to make a contact (via e-mail & facebook) with Dr. Colette Balmain, who is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Buckinghamshire New University, UK and the author of An Introduction to Japanese Horror Film (I wish I could buy it). But I guess she didn't feel comfortable to discuss or spoil the subject matter as she is currently writing her second book which is a history of Korean horror film under the working title..."South Korean Horror Cinema: history, memory and Identity (Fisher Imprints: 2012)".

Anyway, then I visited some Asian online forums where people mostly like to discuss about Asian cinema (particularly Japanese, Korean, Chinese & Thai movies) and I raised this question there. In only one forum there are some nice fellas who finally gave me some ideas.

Roshiq the detective!

I just saw Shutter and Dark Water recently, but most noteworthy I saw the lesser known Occult [The Unidentified] (2009).

It was pretty good, with one major concern that I perhaps spend too much time rehashing here.

Just saw Shikoku-it had a great story but itis score was a bit too uneven and the production was a little heavy handed but worth watching

Interesting discussion, Roshiq - Interesting thoughts on the Far East Films discussion board as well.

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Dream Home (2010): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407972/

meh - There are so many positive reviews on this on Netflix that it leads me to believe that there are people on here who would really like this movie... Roshiq - this may be something that you'd want to check out.

For me, though, I'm not sure if I was in the mood or what, but it didn't really do anything for me - I was bored really by the story.

On the plus side, it had some of the most grizzly and inventive murder scenes that I've seen in a while.

Yup..I have seen Dream Home and you're right, I really loved it.:)

Last Asian film I saw was Cello. Not great. For all your cello related film needs, I'd recommend Strange Circus instead!

Angel Dust (1994)

>>: B-

Empire of Passion (1978)

>>: B+

The Child's Eye (2010)

A very lame film from Pang Brothers (The Eye, Re-Cycle).

>>: C-