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Teacher Yuko stands in front of the class and
announces she is going to resign. She explains that
Student A and Student B in her class killed her 3 year
old daughter and now in revenge she has infected the
milk they just drank with HIV infected blood. From the
disgusted response of the two boys, it is obvious who
the killers are.
Because her husband was ill with HIV, Yuko had
brought her daughter to school to play in an empty
classroom while she taught in another room. One day,
the child was gone and her body turned up floating in
the swimming pool. A student admits to killing the child
and when she shows...

Yun-hee, a South Korean writer, is under pressure by her editor to produce something of interest for her next book. She hasn’t had a book published in three years and is all too cognizant of this fact. Things look up when her old friend Seo-yeon calls from Vietnam. Seo-Yeon informs Yun-hee about a local Vietnamese folklore centered around a girl named “Muoi” and her haunted portrait. It just so happens that in Yun-hee’s prior novel, she wrote a semi-autobiographical tale concerning her friends titled “Secrets & Lies”. In the book Seo-Yeon was portrayed in the most horrible manner,...

Haruka Yamano returns from America to Tokyo in a wheelchair, both legs having multiple fractures from a car accident. She is helped by her brother Koichi and their father. Their father travels to Singapore for business meetings and Koichi takes care of his sister and films her most of the time with his camera. The next morning, Haruka tells that her wheelchair has moved during the night and Koichi check the windows of her room to see if a stranger has broken in their house. He tells that probably a spirit had moved the wheelchair and he uses salt near the door of Haruka's bedroom to protect...

In Tokyo, during an evening get-together with friends, Okazaki Yoko's (Anna Nagata) cell phone suddenly rings in an eerie, unusual tone, cartoon styled. Not recognizing the tone, Yoko doesn't pick up soon enough and the call goes into "voice mail" (chakushin). When she sees that the call/message was from her own phone number and dated two days into the future, both she and her friend Nakamura Yumi (Kou Shibasaki) listen intently to the message. What they hear is the voice of Yoko in casual chit-chat, followed by a horrendous scream and then dead silence, which visibly disturbs Yoko and Yumi....

Directed by Korean golden boy Park Chan-Wook, Oldboy
is a blistering ride of a film and established Korea firmly
on the map as a serious player in the horror film
stakes.
Oh Dae-su is a drunken business man who suddenly
gets kidnapped on the night of his daughter’s birthday.
He is kept for 15 years in a room with no human
contact or no reason. He learns from the news on his
TV that his wife has been killed and he is the main
suspect. Exactly 15 years after he was first captured,
he is set free on a roof of a building.
Dae-su goes to a sushi restaurant where he tries to
rape Mi-do the chef. She confesses...

Gross out metal based hijinks from Japanese cult film
director Shinya Tsukomoto. Tetsuo: Iron Man is a firm
J-Horror fan favourite which has been simultaneously
disgusting and bewildering viewers for over 20 years.
The Metal Fetishist cuts open his leg and sticks a steel
rod in it. When the wound goes maggoty, he freaks out
and runs out of his abode only to be knocked down by
a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. They dump
Metal Fetishist in a ravine but Metal Fetishist is intent
on wreaking revenge by forcing the businessman to
turn into a being completely made of metal. We are
treated to a number...

In a futuristic Japan, a man known as ‘Key Man’ has
spread a terrible virus that makes humans into
grotesque beings called Engineers who spout weapons
from any injury. A special task force has been set up to
deal with them. They use violence, cruelty and sadism
and executions to maintain order.
Helping them is Ruka, an expert dispatcher of
Engineers. She is looking for the man who killed her
father who was a policeman. Ruka is told to hunt down
Key Man but he infects her. A nationwide crackdown on
Engineers is ordered after a policeman turned Engineer
wastes an entire precinct in Tokyo.
Ruka meets...

Two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Satō) and Tomoko (Yūko Takeuchi) talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko then reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and received a call after watching it. Unnervingly similar to the storied videotape, Masami realizes that Tomoko was fated to die. After some unsettling moments, Tomoko is killed by an unseen force with Masami having the horror of watching.

Some days later, Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima), a reporter investigating...

Dolls! Scary killer dolls! Argh!
I do not like dollies or mannequins coming to life. It
really scares the bejaysus out of me. Which is fantastic
fun when it comes to watching horror films. This is
definitely the best scary dolls movie I have ever
watched.
The basis of the plot was quite confusing. There is
something about during the Japanese occupation of
South Korea, a doll maker falls in love with a woman in
a red kimono and makes a huge life size doll in tribute
to her. The woman falls in love with him too. When she
is found murdered, the doll maker is blamed and killed.
The doll sits by his grave,...

I have included Three Extremes because it is a nifty
cross-Asia Portmanteau film featuring three films from
different countries in Asia – Dumplings, directed by
Fruit Chan (Hong Kong), Cut, directed by Park Chan-
Wook (S Korea) and Box, directed by Takashi Miike
(Japan).
In Dumplings, an actress is terrified that she is getting
old and losing her looks. She goes for a cure to a
woman who cooks her dumplings which contain a
remarkable rejuvenation ingredient. The ingredient is
sinister but the actress will do anything to retain her
youth.
In Cut, a psychotic extra from a film set holds the
director and...