Premonition (Japan) 2004, Poster, Trailer, Synopsis and Plot

AKA: Yogen
Year: 2004
Directed: Norio Tsuruta
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 95min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (external - srt)
Directed : Norio Tsuruta
Cast : Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Maki Horikita , Mayumi Ono
IMDB: Premonition

Synopsis / Plot

While stopped at a roadside phone boot for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five years old daughter Nana in the obituary.

He sees his wife Ayaka Satomi trying to release their daughter from the seat-belt, when a truck without steer hits his car killing Nana.

Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal persons who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future still trying to believe on Hideki, and she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without power to save the victims. Read more …

Lhorn (Thai) 2003, Synopsis, Plot, Cast and Trailer

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Nightmare Detective (Japanese) 2006, Synopsis, Plot, Poster and Trailer

Aka: Akumu Tantei
Year: 2006
Directed: Shinya Tsukamoto
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
Runtime: 01:46
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Masanobu Ando, Hitomi
Imdb: Akumu Tantei

Synopsis / Plot

In Nightmare Detective, a series of gruesome and mysterious apparent suicides prompts a female detective (Hitomi) to investigate. She discovers that the common denominator in all cases was the fact that the victim’s had dialed Zero on their phones before they died. All signs from the investigation indicates that something supernatural is occurring and when the detective suspects it has something to do with the nightmare world, she convinces a young social outcast (Matsuda) with the ability to enter dreams to aid in her investigation. What he discovers in the gray, seemingly permanently solar eclipsed nightmare world is a negative reality where metaphor can be a deadly weapon. This is the home of Zero (Shinya Tsukamoto), a merchant of death who feasts on the death and misery of the living.

Up until this point Shinya Tsukamoto has been defiantly self-reliant. An indication of his theater group DYI roots, he often wrote, shot, performed in, directed, edited, and art directed (etc.) just about every one of his films. Read more …

4 Horror Tales : Dark Forest (Korea) 2006, Poster, Synopsis, Cast and Trailer

AKA : Juk-eum-yi soop
Directed : Kim Jeong-min
Cast : Young-joon Kim, Jong-hyeok Lee, Choong-seon Park, Yi-hyeon So
Genre : Horror
Country : South Korean
Language : Korean
Runtime : 1 hr 39 mins
Subtitle(s) : English
IMDB : 4 Horror Tales : Dark Forest

Plot/Synopsis
Woo-jin, Jung-ah and three other trekkers merrily depart for a mountain climbing trip.

On the way into a forest – a forest which is off-limits – Se-Eun and Joon-hoo are wounded and the group is faced with a serious obstacle: they are disconnected from any area where a cell phone is available and effectively cut off from the world.

 Jung-ah is particularly uneasy; she is unwillingly able to see the future, a residual influence of her shaman parents.

The stranded, frightened party soon has an opportunity to discover the forest\’s startling secrets… Read more …

Eko Eko Azarak II : Birth of the Wizard (Japan) 1996, Poster, Synopsis, Cast and Trailer

Plot/Synopsis

Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to ‘Wizard of Darkness’ to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. ‘Birth of the Wizard’ begins in Meiji-era Japan, in a village of former witches and wizards. I say former, because someone seems to have slaughtered them. Skip to the present day, and an archaeologist discovers a mummy from the village. Blissfully unaware that the mummy is, in fact, possessed by an evil spirit (naturally), he runs off, leaving his assistant alone. The mummy comes to life, kills her, and the evil spirit takes over her body. This evil spirit is now searching for Misa, who is protected by Kyle Reese, It is Misa’s destiny to defeat this evil spirit, but she needs Saiga’s help to do it.

Aka : Eko eko azaraku II, Birth of the Wizard, Wizard of Darkness II
Year : 1996
Country : Japan
Language : Japanese
Subtitle(s) : English
Film Genre : Horror
IMDB : Eko Eko Azarak II : Birth of the Wizard

Director : Shimako Sato Read more …

Izo (Japanese) 2004, Plot, Synopsis, Cast and Trailer

Aka : Izo : Kaosu mataha funori no Kijin
Year : 2004
Country : Japan
Language : Japanese/English
Runtime : 88 mins
Subtitle(s) : English hardsubbed
Film Genre : Action/Drama/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller/War
IMDB : Izo 2004

Director : Takashi Mike
Cast : Kazuya nakayama, Kaori Momoi, Ryuhei Matsuda, Ryosuke Miki, Yuya Uchida, Masumi Okada, Hiroki Matsukata, Hiroshi Katsuno, Masato, Bob Sapp, Takeshi Kitano, Daijiro Harada

Plot/Synopsis

We begin in 1865, when the Shogunate is on its last legs, but still capable of punishing its enemies. One is Izo (Kazuya Nakayama), an assassin in the service of Hanpeida (Ryosuke Miki), a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun’s men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo, where he finds himself one with the city’s homeless. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine, his entire soul still enraged by his treatment in his past life. His response to the powers-that-be, whose predecessors put him to death, is the sword. Read more …

Shutter (2004) (Thai) - Poster, Synopsis, Review, Trailer

Directors:Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom
Genre:Fantasy / Horror / Mystery
Cast: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool, Chachchaya Chalemphol, Samruay Jaratjaroonpong, Abhijati ‘Meuk’ Jusakul, Binn Kitchacho, Jitrada Korsangvichal, Panitan Mavichak, Sivagorn Muttamara
Runtime: 97 min / Hong Kong:93 min (DVD version)
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Color: Color

SYNOPSIS

In Bangkok, after celebrating a drinking party with his closest friends, the photographer Tun (Ananda Everingham) and his girlfriend Jane (Natthaweeranuch Thongmee) have a car accident on the road, with Jane hitting a girl. Tun does not allow her to help the girl and they ran away leaving the girl lying on the road. When Tun reveals his latest pictures, he finds some mysterious shadows, while the couple is systematically haunted by the ghost of the girl.

Tun investigates and finds that the victim was his former shy and weird girlfriend Natre (Achita Sikamana), who studied with him in the college. Later Jane discloses deep and hidden secrets about the relationship of Natre, Tun and his friends. Read more …