Grotesque

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 da a horrendous scream and then dead silence, which visibly disturbs Yoko and Yumi....

Directed da 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 o 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 da 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 da a boy in Izu which is fabled to orso 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 da 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 o 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 bambole 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 Amore with a woman in
a red chimono, kimono and makes a huge life size doll in tribute
to her. The woman falls in Amore with him too. When she
is found murdered, the doll maker is blamed and killed.
The doll sits da 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 da Park Chan-
Wook (S Korea) and Box, directed da 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...

Lee Geum-ja served a lengthy prison sentence for the
murder of a young school boy Won-mo. the case is a
national sensation due to the lurid nature of the murder
and Lee Geum-ja’s young age at the time of the crime.
Due to her kindness and good deeds in prison, her
sentence is reduced. She is innocent of the murder –
forced into confessing da Mr Baek – the real killer who
threatened to kill her newborn daughter.
Once out of prison, Geum-ja calls on favours from
prison inmates for food, shelter and weapons. She also
secures a job in a pastry shop. To distance herself from
her kindly image she tarts...