Mikko Rasinkangas

I’ve now seen

The Eye
Audition
Ring
Ring 2
Ring 0
Kairo
Uzumaki
St. John’s Wort
Another Heaven
Bio-Zombie
Freeze Me
Dead Or Alive
Battle Royale

What next? Looking for scary and/or extreme stuff. Doesn't matter which region but english subtitles are mandatory.

DeepRedInferno

Hideo Nakata(director of Ring and Ring2) has a new flick coming out on August 15 called Dark Waters, i ordered that.

also if you wanted to put a couple of other features with your order i would reccomend

Inner Senses - some people have had problems with their discs, but mine works fine.

Nightmare - decent slasher flick from Korea

City of Lost Souls - kick ass Miike flick

Nameless - spanish thriller, but damn good, great DTS soundtrack available on HK disc, althoguh original spanish disc has a better video transfer, the HK disc is only 6 bucks though, so give it a try.

hope i was of assistance

jtfoo

I'm waiting for this HK movie "Three" which will be coming to the big screen in my country.. Starring Leon Lai, I think.

http://www.threemovie.com

Yellow Hammer

well, The Untold Story would be amongst the most extreme HK movies, but if you're able to find the Taiseng DVD (which is the only DVD version available), let me know, because I sure can't find it.

Cageman, which is not on DVD, is an 'extreme' HK movie but not in the violent or horror sense, more on the shocking sense.

There are tons of HK horror movies out there, but none that I can really recommend as far as being a good movie is concerned.

Mikko Rasinkangas

Is "Dark Water" any good and What about "Inugami"? Anyone seen?

JaxComet

Here's a review.......


DARK WATER

6/10

Honogurai Mizuno Sokokara : Japan 2002 : Hideo Nakata : 101 mins

From the director of the superb Ring comes another adaptation of a novel by ‘the Japanese Stephen King’, Koji Suzuki. And, once again, the story pivots on a youngish mother bringing up a small child on her own, plagued by visions of a ghostly presence of a drowned girl (face hidden by long black hair) which seem to strip away the reassuring surfaces of modern-day Japan to reveal an alternative world of fear and superstition. But while Ring’s horror involved a widening circle of connections spreading out through society, Dark Water’s geographical focus is tighter: the haunting is restricted to a single block of flats, into which the recently-divorced Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) moves with her 6-year-old daughter Ikuku (Rio Kanno). Theirs isn’t the most welcoming of flats – there’s a nasty damp patch on the ceiling – and it isn’t long before the clammy atmosphere starts unsettling Yoshimi’s already fragile mental balance…

When we’re told, early on, that Yoshimi has previously suffered psychiatric problems after taking a job proofreading ‘extremely graphic and sadistic’ horror novels, we brace ourselves for a full-on Takeshi Miike-style onslaught of gut-wrenching visuals. These never arrive, and instead Nakata concentrates on building up an almost palpable sense of dread, coming up with the muddiest visuals seen on screen since Sokurov’s pea-souper Taurus. The first hour is a relentlessly rain-soaked asphalt-grey-blue exercise in grimy, doomy stylistics, as well as being quite a nimble satire on the state of the Japanese property market: even without the supernatural stuff, this would count as a real apartment-block from hell, that ceiling stain expanding all the while as Nakata ratchets up the stygian chills with a literal ‘drip drip’ effect. We’re never quite sure whether what we’re watching is going to be a horror film at all – perhaps it’s all in Yoshimi’s head. Perhaps she’s the malevolent presence – or perhaps her shadowy ex-husband is trying to ‘Diabolique’ her out of her mind so she can win custody of Ikuku.

As long as it maintains this ambiguity, Dark Water is an absorbing, rewarding kind of chiller, exploring the primal bereavement/abandonment fears of Yoshimi and Ikuku – young Kanno earns her fee and then some, bearing up remarkably well to what looks like a series of harsh drenchings. But when push comes to shove, the tension dries up – Nakata’s attempt at a Ring_-style thunderous crescendo of horror (as Yoshimi investigates a rooftop watertank), is disappointingly short on genuine shocks and scares. The last 20 minutes are, in fact, much the weakest part of the picture, especially a baffling ’10 years later’ dream-like coda showing Ikuku as a schoolgirl (Asami Mizukawa) experiencing what may or may not be yet another haunting. Ring ended on an inspired note of endlessly spiralling horror – with Dark Water, it’s more a case of ever-decreasing circles.

Trigger

My review of Inugami

This website scared the poop outta me. Damn u.

gabegarwick

I did a search on dvdpricesearch.com for "untold" and it popped up for like 10 stores. (okay, only 6)

Amazon has it here.

Is it pretty good?

cheers,
Gabe

Yellow Hammer

The movie is a classic. However, I think the Taiseng DVD has been OOP for a while. Perhaps I'm wrong.

DVD Smurf

Tell Me Something from Korea was pretty good, it is a serial killer film al a Silence of the Lambs, that is if I would compare to something. I think you like this one.

Another coming to mind would be Tetsuo, but this is more a sci-fi with some interesting scenes.

axolotls return

Jeez. I had two of these my buddy wanted to get rid of. And no one wanted it a few months ago.... Heck, I didn't even keep one for myself.

MonsterHunter

Japan Shock has released a bunch of icky Asian movies that probably qualify as extreme: Men Behind The Sun 1, 2 and 3, Naked Blood, Evil Dead Trap 1 and 2, Guts Of A Beauty and Guts Of A Virgin, Beautiful Girl Hunter. Ebola Syndrome is sort of funny in a gross way. I still drool thinking about those "African Buns"! All of these have English subtitles. Oh, and Synapse has released Organ (and has more releases on the way). That should keep you grossed out for awhile.

eXcentris

I liked Inugami (wood theme) and The Isle (water theme) quite a bit. The later has wonderful cinematography and a couple of rather graphic scenes. If you like slow-paced films that have a "haunting" quality, you might like those. I prefered these to Uzumaki, Kakachi, and St Johns Wort.

sandman1

There are 4 merchants selling Uncut Story DVD on Half.com for $26-36.

Venom

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2....PROD_ID=151021

Crazy Aoshi

While not horror, the most extreme violence I have seen in an Asian movie is of course, the classic, "Story of Ricky".

marty888

You beat me to it! Absolutely the most extreme one I can think of ... you won't be disappointed!

buckee1

Hello Everyone,

I recently watched Ringu and got hooked like a big dog. I have already ordered "Dark Water" & Izumaki not too mention the rest of the Ring series including Rasen.

Do you guys & gals have any other suggestions for Horror along the lines of Ringu?

Thanks,

Chuck

Civic2oo1

Definately watch The Eye. I enjoyed it more so then Ringu. Also I don't know if it's on DVD yet, but from what I hear Ju-On is supposed to be scarier as hell too. I know that HKL is releasing it, but I'm not sure if any other studio is.

fnordboy

There is also Tomie, not the best movie (others here will probably tell you one of the worst ), but I enjoyed it.

chucky7

R3 Korean Phone(dts)

harosa

Ive heard alot of good things about The Phone. THE EYE is a great horror/suspense film. ST JOHNS WORT (ignore the ttile) is a great horror film in the vein of a computer RPG film, imagine the mansion elements in a Resident Evil game as a movie. SUICIDE CIRCLE is a disturbing film and the granddaddy of them all now is KAIRO (Pulse), the first film after Ring optioned for a film that was to star Kirsten Dunst and be directed by Wes Craven but was sidetracked for script rewrites. This movie has a great premise and some creepy ass moments.

buckee1

Thanks for these recommendations!

Please keep em' coming!

tinlunlau

Inner Senses

buckee1

I just ordered Kairo and Kikashi (sp?)

Thanks for the info guys/gals.