Latest Horror Extreme Movie Reviews Feed : Asian Horror Movies

Macabre

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:36:32 GMT

In 2009, Indonesian writer/directors “The Mo Brothers” (aka Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto) unleashed their horror movie Macabre on the populace of Singapore. They made a deliberate effort to merge the American slasher genre with more traditional Eastern horror and they definitely achieved this. It draws influences from American horror so much so...

Silk

Pazuzu Iscariot — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:24:06 GMT

For decades religious leaders have tried to combine the supernatural with science to try and justify the ridiculous beliefs they maintain while the rest of the world gradually starts to become rational. Taiwanese writer and director Chao-Bin Su tries to do the same with Silk (Gui si) but, like Scientologists, he ends up discovering that it is no si...

Love Exposure

Hellbound Heart — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:53:49 GMT

As a general rule, when a director can move seamlessly from knob gags to profound emotion, then he or she is doing something right. You can expect all of this and much, much more from Shion Sono in 2008's Love Exposure; despite being quite an undertaking with around a four-hour running time, this is not a film which ever felt boring, nor did it ove...

Id

Hellbound Heart — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:15:21 GMT

When you can't really understand what the cover blurb is saying to you, then you know you're in for an "interesting" experience with a movie, and - credit where credit's due - Id (2005) is an interesting experience alright. The problem here is trying to overlay a conventional review on a film which is anything but conventional. From the earliest sc...

Guilty of Romance

Hellbound Heart — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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 end of 2012. In terms of theme, it has much in commo...

Erotibot

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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 able to run with it in a manner that will provide li...

Shogun's Sadism

Hellbound Heart — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The popularity of so many modern Japanese horror movies over the last ten years has no doubt generally piqued Western curiosity about the country's cinematic legacy: its more recent gory movies didn't emerge out of a vacuum, that's for sure, and it's getting easier to track down earlier works which show us this much, such as Shogun's Sadism (The Jo...

Horny House of Horror

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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 away from the directorial role and is involved in t...

Apartment 1303 (1303 goshitsu)

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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 combat this by smoking pot at music festivals (statisti...

Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun)

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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 clumsily merge of the two concepts the movie turns int...