Browsing: Asian Horror

THE WAILING **** South Korea 2016 Dir: Hong-jin Na. 149 mins Although excessively long, like its director’s well regarded THE CHASER and THE YELLOW SEA, this is a beguiling and richly atmospheric picture. Adulterous, pudgy detective Do Won Kwak (a marvellously unfashionable hero) investigates a series of deaths in his…

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ARROW FEBRUARY RELEASE SCHEDULE Arrow Video have a whole slew of new releases to enjoy this February on DVD, Blu-ray and dual format. Below you will find the release schedule for this month. WILLIE DYNAMITE Release date: 6th February 2017 Format: Dual Format DVD & Blu-Ray Directed by: Gilbert Moses…

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SEED OF DARKNESS ** Malaysia 2006 103 mins Dir : Michael Chuah Yan and her young daughter Ying Ying move into a dilapidated building where there seems to be few residents apart from a man who owns a camcorder and a man who makes friends with Yan very easily. Though…

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‘THE UNBIDDEN’ CONJURES FIRST TRAILER Margin Films is excited to summon the first trailer for Quentin Lee’s The Unbidden. A quartet of longtime girlfriends come together in the hopes that a séance will protect them from a dark presence that won’t rest until one of them is destroyed. Quentin Lee…

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AUDITION ***** Japan 1999 Dir: Takashi Miike. 115 mins Takashi Miike’s breakthrough movie for Western audiences, this is a haunting masterclass in escalating dread that has far more to offer than the (comparatively brief) gruelling moments of torture for which it became (in)famous. It opens as a poignant tale of…

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