Japanese Horror Films
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This month is not for the faint hearted - shock, horror, blood, psychic powers, family abuse, and needles will have you cowering. Beware; this is grown up viewing for those who crave a shot of terror by watching one of these Japanese horror films.
Audition
Shigeharu Aoyama concocts a fake TV show to audition for a new wife and mother for his young son. This psycho thriller plots the audition for the successful bride. Asami is graceful, demure and romantic, but, here's the twist, she lives her life like a crocodile waiting to be released. The ferocity of this heroine will make you breathless, nauseous and wanting it to end; and what a shocking ending.
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Battle
Royale
Class 3B, a group of fifteen year olds in a Japanese High School are selected to perform the annual ritual of Battle Royale. Transported to an island they are forced to engage in a vicious game of survival where only the winner returns alive. This is a story of teenage choice between friendship, loyalty and personal survival. Lots of bizarre battle action and fast moving visuals. Who do you want to survive? This is extremely violent; massacres with guns and machetes abound.
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The
Eye
Having an operation to restore her sight, Mun (Angelica Lee), should have a been a wonderful experience, but as her vision returns it is clouded by departed spirits. A claustrophobic atmosphere builds as blurry shadows lurk across the screen and a traumatised Mun retreats in fear and dread. A big bang gives a whiz of an ending.
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Tale of Two Sisters
A slow beautifully visual Korean film creates a tension leading into a world of family abuse and nervous disorders. Soo-Mi (Su-Jeong Lim) returns home to live with her father, sister and evil step mother, Eun Joo. In attempts to protect her younger sister from abuse, head butting between Soo- Mi and Eug Joo escalate to severe disturbances. Soo-Mi's sense of reality slips to memories past or future? Creepy visuals with slow horrific clues lead to an inevitable disaster.
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Tetsuo: The
Iron Man
Hear the jock jazz soundtrack overlaid with screams and you are entering this weird metal ridden world. Shocking dark humour and pain are played out as Tetsuo finds metal protruding from his body and turns into a metal man. This is not enough, he is confronted by another creature - two metal men on the block is one two many and they battle for supremacy. Filmed with a hand held in black and white this is a classic art house horror movie.
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Visitor
Q
Perverse thrills of a family falling apart with the daughter a hooker, mother a junkie, father a family abuser and son beaten at school. If you have the staying power of such a scenario then there's grime to bashing to sex and nothing is remotely nice, but that's horror and it's all here.
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Page last updated: 30th October 2006
