Seed (V), Poster and Plot

SYNOPSIS

After three attempts to electrocute, complete with boiling blood that steeps from his eyes, he’s still alive. The executioner, Warden Wright and the doctor collectively agree that the breathing Seed be pronounced dead. He is bound and buried alive. After biting and clawing his way to the surface, Seed, the bloodsoaked, enraged madman, is now bent on vengeance.

User Review
I had the pleasure of screening this film at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin with Uwe Boll in the audience to introduce and answer questions about the movie. This movie would have been good even without the explanations, but it sure didn’t hurt. All in all similar in spirit to the classic unkillable killer movies like Halloween and the later Friday the 13th movies, but Boll takes it in another direction. He has a point to all the gory depictions, but it gets a little lost along the way. All in all a great film if you’re a fan of serious gore. Basically if sick and twisted is your bag, you won’t be disappointed, but if you really want to be scared this movie just doesn’t deliver.

Scare 2 Die (Japanese) 2008, Poster, Plot Horror

Plot:

The prolific Pang Brothers have been behind a string of horror hits dating back to 2002’s critically-acclaimed The Eye - and there seems to be no stopping them. Six years later, people have yet to tire of Pang-produced horror, which is where Scare 2 Die comes in. Directed by the Pangs’ longtime assistant director Cub Chien, Scare 2 Die is an omnibus horror movie featuring three gory tales of supernatural discontent. Chien varies his approach in this commercial chiller, going for cultural frights, a gore-filled cautionary tale, and a spectacularly intense twenty-minute chase involving disembowelment, the living dead, and rising star Elanne Kwong (Invisible Target) swinging an axe. Joining Kwong in this trio of horror tales is the ubiquitous Sam Lee, as well as Pang Brothers veteran Lawrence Chou (The Eye), and Tommy Yuen of boy band E-kids.

Down-on-his-luck gambler Kan Au (Sam Lee) owes a big sum of money, and needs to go on a winning streak soon or the loan sharks will take the interest from his hide. Luckily, Kan finds a blessed coin that allows him to draws the unbeatable “13 Unique Wonders” hand of mahjong on 13 consecutive nights, which should be enough for him to pay his debts. The problem: every time he uses the coin to win, somebody dies a gruesome, gory death. Meanwhile, fetching Luk Wing (Elanne Kwong) wakes up one morning to discover her family being eaten! Everyone around her has become a zombie, and Wing has to pick up an axe and fight back, or her heart will be come lunch for the living dead. Finally, slacker Chan (Tommy Yuen) signs up for “Scare 2 Die” a reality game show with a prize purse of $130,000. Read more …

Sorum (2001) (Korean), Poster Big, Synopsis and Plot

A 29 year old Taxi driver named Yong-hyun moves into a new apartment. But his new home is very dilapidated and even worst; the whole building is about to be torn down because of its poor condition. Only four other people remain on the same floor as Yong-hyun. Mr. Lee an old writer who never got any real success in his life, Eun-su a young piano teacher and Sun-young an abused wife who can’t escape her drunken husband. But soon after that Yong-hyun moved into his apartment, he learned that a man died in a fire in the same apartment not too long ago. H Also 30 years ago, a husband, who ran away with the woman living next door, killed his wife and abandoned a newborn baby who almost died in a fire.
With the time passing, these fives tenants will begin to know each other a little more. Yong-hyun is developing a very close relationship with Sun-young the abused wife and he will also befriend the writer Mr. Lee. But it seems that all these characters hide a very dark past. Yong-hyun is suspect in the disappearance of his ex-wife, Sun-young lost her child a couple of year ago and Mr. Lee was apparently a very close friend to the guy who died in the apartment no so long ago. Were these fires really accidents and is there any connection between all these mysterious and strange events

Review: At first glance it looked like a horror movie, well I was expecting to see some ghost and dark chilling fantasy elements, but Sorum is not exactly your typical horror ghost story movie.

In fact, there’s no ghost at all and there’s also almost no fright factor either, so calling Sorum a horror movie would not be exactly right. It is more of a dark drama driven by a very claustrophobic and tense atmosphere than anything else. Unlike the current wave of Asian horror movies, Sorum doesn’t have any fantasy or ghost element but instead try to hook the spectator by using a very impressive cinematography. In addition the movie uses a lot of environmental sound effects to make the spectator feel like they are really in the movie. Read more …

Drain #1 (Comics) CB Cebulski: A Marvel Exclusive, TV Work And More

Plot

Chinatsu, an immortal vampire from Japan, looks for her family’s killer, and also her vampire sire. She mercilessly searches throughout many time periods and centuries in order to achieve her revenge.

The first story-arc of six issues has been published with the latest issue released in 2008 and a tradepaperback due in 2008.

There are more story-arcs planned, but that still has to be determined pending a new artist.

CB Cebulski

While C.B. Cebulski was once better known as a Marvel editor than a comics writer, that’s not the case anymore. Cebulski’s recent writing experience has not only earned him some loyal fans, but Newsarama has confirmed the writer’s just gotten an exclusive contract from Marvel and some writing work in television (this interview was conducted just prior to the WGA announcing that it was going on strike).

After leaving his editorial job at Marvel in early 2006 to concentrate more on his writing, he returned to Marvel later that same year as an “editor-who-also-writes.” Between the writing projects he’s done for Marvel like his Fairy Tales series and The Loners miniseries, he’s also written a couple video games and released a few creator-owned titles like Drain, Compass, and Wonderlost.

Full Free Comic On Line

And recently, as Cebulski announced in San Diego, he’s also been traversing the world, searching for new comic book talent through his cleverly titled ChesterQuest (the “C” in C.B. stands for Chester). Publicized both here on Newsarama and through Cebulski’s ChesterQuest blog, the search promises to land 12 brand new artists a pencilling job at Marvel after it finishes up in January. Read more …

Sex and Zen II (Chinese) 1996, Poster Sex And Zen II 玉蒲團 II : 玉女心經 - Original HK Trailer

Synopsis / Plot

The movie follows the wealthy Squire (Xu Jin Jiang) who has one obsession which is to be best in the art of sex.

However, he is extremely strict with his own daughter Yau (Loretta Lee). When she is sent away to study he has disguised her as a boy and putted on her a chastity device with sharp rotating blades to protect her from men like himself.

However she falls in love with a young swordsman who is pursuing the deadly demon called the Mirage Lady (Shu Qi). The demon is using her sexual power to drain peoples energy so they die.

And a deadly confrontation is bound to happen when the Mirage Lady is married to Yaus father.
Aka: Yu pu tuan II: Yu nu xin jing
Year: 1996
Directed: Man Kei Chin
Genre: Adventure/Drama/Fantasy/Horror/Erotic
Runtime: 1:27:35
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Chinese
Subtitle: English
Cast: Loletta Lee, Tat-Wah Lok, Ben Ng, Qi Shu
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Oneechanbara: The Movie (Japanese) 2008, The Movie Full Trailer

Aka: Chanbara Beauty
Year: 2008
Directed: Yôhei Fukuda
Genre: Action/Horror
Runtime: 80 mins
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard Coded)
Cast: Satoshi Hakuzen, Manami Hashimoto, Ai Hazuki, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Sari Kurauchi, Tomoya Nagai
Imdb: Oneechanbara: The Movie

Synopsis / Plot

Based on the popular PS2 game series, OneChanbara brings the adventures of sexy slayer Aya to the big screen in all its katakana-wielding, zombie-slicing glory. Written and directed by Fukada Yohei, OneChanbara stars three pin-up idols in the leading action heroine roles.

Up-and-coming siren Otoguro Eri (Shutter, Shaolin Girl) cuts fine form as the feisty heroine Aya, slashing her way through the movie in the character’s signature cowgirl attire - cowboy hat, cowboy boots, long scarf, and a bikini.

To defend her city, she has to take on a quickly multiplying army of zombies that was raised from the dead by a mysterious scientist. Read more …

The Walking Dead #1 (Online Comics ), Poster #2

The Walking Dead is an American monthly black and white comic published by Image Comics beginning in 2003. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore (replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward) and chronicles the travels of a group of people trying to survive in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse.
Synopsis

The Walking Dead is centered around a small-town police officer from Cynthiana, Kentucky, his family, and a number of other survivors who have banded together in order to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. As the series progresses, the characters become more developed, and their personalities shift under the stress of a zombie apocalypse. Fighting growing despair — and occasionally each other — the group searches for a secure location which they can finally call home.

Days Gone Bye (issues #1-6)

The story opens with Rick Grimes and his partner Shane in a gunfight with an escaped convict. While trying to disarm the criminal, Rick gets shot and blacks out. When he awakes an unspecified time later, he finds himself in a hospital bed, completely alone.

Finding the hospital abandoned, Grimes sets off to find out where everyone went. He finds the hospital’s cafeteria crowded with the living dead, and barely escapes with his life. He returns to his home, only to find it abandoned as well — and he catches a shovel in the back of the head. When he awakens, again, he discover that a young boy named Duane Jones had hit him, believing him to be a zombie. After a brief introduction, Duane’s father Morgan explains what has happened while Rick was comatose: a plague of the dead has swept all civilization. Duane and Morgan have taken up in Rick’s neighbor’s house, hoping to ride it out. Read more …