Asian Horror Movies - Page 3 of 4

The deranged genius behind Tokyo Gore Police is back with a chilling new flick that’s re-writing the hallowed history of the horror genre. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is the terrifying story of two classic monsters re-imagined as super hot – and extremely lethal – Japanese school girls. Gore rules supreme in this blood-cake cavalcade of carnage chosen as the winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 NY Asian Film Festival. Fan boys and movie blogs are already buzzing over…

Daniel Gillies of SPIDER-MAN 2 and 3 stars as an American attorney in Japan whose childhood trauma has left him with a crippling fear of the ocean. But when he begins a dangerous affair with the wife of a wealthy client a sunset boat trip will reveal the violence and vengeance that waits just below the surface. How do you unleash the horrific ghosts of everyone s past? Just add water!Ryo Ishibashi of AUDITION and THE GRUDGE co-stars in this creepy shocker adapted from the short story by legendary…

Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark…

Yoshi Lomax, a mixed race African American/Asian beauty, is a very successful attorney in Miami . The motto she lives by is "by any means necessary" and by following this; she is very wealthy and has never lost a case. Her clientele includes several top level drug lords and rap artists who are blatantly guilty of the crimes they are accused but after Yoshi performs her magic, they get off scot-free. When she decides to take on a client who is a rival of a former drug dealer she represented,…

This was a bit different with Boris Karloff playing an Asian "bad guy." He plays "Fu Manchu," and man who sets out to get Genghis Khan's mask and sword which supposedly will give him the power to rule over millions of people. Despite the classic film casting of white people to play Asians, I found Karloff to be "cool" looking as was his evil daughter, a young Myrna Loy. I like Karen Morely, usually, but not in here where she plays an almost-hysterical daughter…

The next SARS outbreak will be drastically worse due to a mutation in the virus that turns infected people into flesh craving zombies! With the world in the deadly grip of a global epidemic Thailand is proud to proclaim that they are the only virus free nation in Asia. However the virus manages to infiltrate Thailand's quarantine and spread quickly through an apartment building. As the number of infected continues to rise its up to a sword wielding hero to venture into the building and battle…

A horrifying flick in the same vein as that of other intensely frightening movies in the Asian horor genre, White Lady centers on Pearl (Pauleen Luna), a simple and smart girl who just arrived in the city to attend college. For reasons she cannot explain and understand, Pearl is haunted by the ghost of a white lady said to be frequenting the school grounds. Determined to solve the mystery, Pearl decides to investigate and hears about the story of Christina (Angelica Panganiban), a simple girl driven…

Want to watch the "macabre, grotesque and thrilling behavior of people in so called real life" narrator Boris Karloff promises at the beginning of MONDO BALORDO? Want to watch a German dwarf jump, jive and wail on a stage while lip-synching to Louis Prima's "I Ain't Got Nobody"? Want to watch "nubile Asian women wrestling in a bondage fetish club"? Want to see a smirking Italian tango dancer, who believes he's the reincarnation of Rudolph Valentino, strut…

What’s been the purpose of your life if not to love and be loved? That’s the story of humanity, and the story of 665. The drama of finding, the needful hope in uncertainty, the dominance and submission, and the grinding within us all to become more together than we are alone. 665 TCT is all the ways we excel in our nobility and fail in our stupidity. It’s about social justice and despite our beliefs, what we all share as human beings. Okay, admittedly, not all of us are human…or…

In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space. In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave new world is the Phoenix Space Elevator, designed to give mankind greater access to the frontier beyond Earth. Built by the U.S./Pan-Asian Coalition, the Elevator is also a grand symbol of superpower alliance following…

A trilogy of Asian style horror films.Episode 1 "Pulse"Chris and Johnny are amateur scientists researching a rumored ghost sighting, with the help of Chris's step sister Jennifer.When they investigate a house allegedly haunted by the victim of a serial killer their experiment soon goes wrong, and the curse of the ghost exceeds their expectations.Episode 2 "Crayon"A young married couple, Kate and Chris, move into a new house. A few days later Kate finds a red crayon left…

"Asano is something of a director’s fantasy; he can look tough and threatening or sensitive and delicate in equal measure." - INTERVIEWTHE ULTIMATE JAPANESE CULT FILM! What do you get when you bring together the King of Cult Movie Directors, the King of Underground Comic Books and the King of Independent Cinema? You get SCREWED! Long considered the primary force in the cinema of transgression, Director Teruo Ishii serves up a fever dream of psychedelic sexuality and hyperbolic insanity that could…

FLOWERS ON THE RAZORWIRETM is a bone chilling new horror anthology created by underground horror legend Hart D. Fisher (Poems for the dead, Sex Crimes) that drags you by the throat into a world one part Twilight Zone & two parts Tales From the Crypt until you're screaming for mercy! But best of all, every DVD comes with it’s own digest sized comic book! In volume one, true crime author Doug Shanks (Joseph M. Monks) thought he'd seen it all until the day he dialed up a two legged nightmare,…

Horror icon Tony Todd (Clive Barker's CANDYMAN series) delivers his most powerful and evil performance as SHADOW, an executed and resurrected serial killer who invades a women's prison in search of the girl known only as Solitaire (Carla Greene)! Solitaire senses her impending doom and prepares to single-handedly take on Shadow and his army of zombies in a supernatural martial arts showdown! SHADOW: DEAD RIOT is a unique stylistic fusion of Asian-style action, zombie horror and women s prison drama.…

During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. Decades…