Game of Death (Thai) 2006 720p BluRay, Ploster, Pot, Cast and Trailer

Aka: 13 Beloved | 13 GAME SAYAWNG
Year: 2006
Directed: Chukiat Sakveerakul
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Runtime: 108MiN
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subtitles: English

Cast: Krissada Terrence || Achita Wuthinounsurasit || Sarunyu Wongkrachang || Nattapong Arunnate

Plot: 13 is a new and very secret competition offering a grand prize of 100 million Baht. The contestants are chosen from those most afflicted with problems involving work, money, family and love. Read more …

BEN (1972, US): I Recently Looked at The Original Rat-Attack Classic Willard

BEN (1972, US)

I recently looked at the original rat-attack classic Willard, but unlike the 2004 remake, the 1971 film instantly spawned a sequel.

In the early seventies, movies were slow to get to TV and of course couldn’t be scrutinised on home video. This meant that film-makers making sequels could re-use footage, and flashbacks could be unecessarily long. Ben opens with a hefty recap from the climax of Willard running under the opening titles.

The story then picks up at the moment when the police arrive at Willard’s house. Almost immediately, it’s a different kind of movie – with all the police cars and crowds, this one has scale rather than character-driven claustrophobia. It’s about the police and the city taking on a new type of rat problem – an intelligent rat directing thousands of others…

Ben is big budget but far less even than the first. On the plus side there’s more rat action, special effects on an almost disaster movie level, flame-throwers in the sewers… Read more …

THEM (2006) - French horror filmed in Romania, Poster and Trailer

THEM (2007, France, aka ‘ILS’)

On region 3 PAL DVD from Thailand (PMEG)

There haven’t been many French horror films until recently. This is one of the ‘new wave’ of hard-hitting and effective genre movies from France, like Switchblade Romance (aka Haute Tension), The Ordeal (Calvaire) and even Brotherhood of the Wolf. It’s received quite a decent release worldwide, considering it’s a low-budget movie shot on video, and has been reviewed extensively, but I’d like to add the following…

A French couple have settled down in a large remote house on the outskirts of Bucharest, while teaching French in a Romanian high school. Little do they know, there’s been a mysterious murder nearby, and at night it’s their turn to be victimised, frightened, then hunted…

The opening scene, of a car breaking down on a forest road, builds nicely to a somewhat cliched climax. Read more …

Nightmare Detective (2006) a Tsukamoto Classic, Poster and Trailer

NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE (2006, Japan, on IMDB as Akumu Tantei) Region 2 PAL Italian DVD (RaroVideo)

The films of director Shinya Tsukamoto are always interesting but usually challenging. His two films of Tetsuo the Iron Man were extreme and disorientating, Haze was short and experimental, Hiruko the Goblin and Gemini bizarre and surreal.

Nightmare Detective appears to be his most mainstream, high profile project. A short plot summary looks accessible enough - a psychic who can enter other people’s dreams doing battle with a nightmare killer. This sounds familiar, in the vein of the many Elm Streets, but appearances can be deceptive…

Detective Keiko Kirishima (played by Hitomi) arrives on the scene of a suicide, but is suspicious that it’s not as it appears. When the case is linked to another violent and bloody death, her colleagues are astonished when she insists that it’s not only a murder case, but also in need of a psychic to solve it. Read more …

The Doll Master (2004) - Mainstream Korean Horror, Poster and Trailer

The Doll Master (2004, South Korea, IMDB: Inhyeongsa)

Not all Korean horrors are gloomy, extreme, perplexing and non-linear. This is a good-looking mainstream horror full of good-looking actors. My only reservation is that while it doesn’t pull its punches, it should have been much, much creepier…

Plotwise, if Stuart Gordon had made Dolls (1987) in South East Asia, he’d probably have ended up with something very similar to this.

It’s also surprising that nothing similar has been made in Japan, where doll mania is regularly the rage. Life-size adult dolls with full wardrobes are on sale as companionship surrogates, highly sophisticated sex dolls can also be tailor-made, girls dress like dolls, people collect dolls, and then there’s the nation’s obsession with lifelike robots… Read more …

Junk: Shiryo gari (Japanese) 2000, Poster, Synopsis, Plot and Trailer

Aka: Junk: Shiryo-gari | Junk - Everybody Fights
Year: 2000
Directed: Atsushi Muroga
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 01:23
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Cast: Kaori Shimamura, Yuji Kishimoto, Shu Ehara, Tate Gouta, Nobuyuki Asano
IMDB: Junk: Shiryo-gari

Synopsis / Plot

Four crooks rob a jewelery shop, then head for an abandoned factory where they plan to fence the goods to the Yakuza. Unfortunately, their chosen location happens to be the same place where American scientists had previously experimented on resurrecting the dead. Read more …

Harakiri - Onna Harakiri Sakuhinshu (2009) Poster Synopsis Upcoming Horror Movie

Attired in their favorite fetish wear, hot-blooded Japanese ultra vixens perform the most masochistic acts of self-sacrifice and submission. The traditional oriental art of Harakiri…Violating their young bodies in ritual self-immolation, they plunge razor-edged blades into their soft, naked flesh. A sea of sweet, red blood cascades as their all too brief lives ebb, and death embraces them.