Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Horror: 163 Films to Buy & Rent
- Thirst (Bakjwi) (2009)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Kim Ok-bin, Ha-kyun Shin
- A voracious vampire movie not afraid to explore the corrupting and liberating power of being undead, starring THE HOST’s burly Song Kang–ho…
- Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009)
- Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Eri Otoguro
- Another enjoyable stock effort from the makers of TOKYO GORE POLICE et. al, this combines home–brewed splatter, ropey special effects, and…
- [REC 2] (REC 2) (2009)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Feat. Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza
- Sequel to the smash Spanish fright fest has a Special Ops team heading into the quarantined apartment at the same time three teenagers let their…
- Dead in 3 Days (Dead in Three Days) (2008)
- Dir. Andreas Prochaska
- Chilling Austrian slasher involving a group of teenagers who must discover a serial killer’s identity in order to save themselves from getting…
- Let The Right One In (2008)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
- Sending many critics into raptures as a vampire flick to finally get excited about, this frost–bitten Swedish entry mixes social realism with…
- Machine Girl, The (2008)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Minase Yashiro, Asami Miyajima
- Brainless ultra–violence combines straighforward revenge narrative with a novelty twist: a plucky schoolgirl, whose stand against local…
- Martyrs (2008)
- Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
- You, the viewer, may feel martyred after enduring this unremittingly bleak French horror focused on a pair of unhinged women who seek revenge on the…
- Sauna (2008)
- Dir. Antti-Jussi Annila
Feat. Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimenko
- Something of a hybrid of the historical epic and ghost story, this unique genre entry from Finland concerns two brothers haunted by a young girl whom…
- Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
- Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura
Feat. Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Ltao, Yukihide Benny
- Trashy, imaginative Japanese gore fest aims to out–splatter Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD with its outrageous hybrid of ROBOCOP and…
- Apartment 1303 (2007)
- Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Noriko Nakagoshi
- A woman is led to investigates a series of suicides in an apartment after her sister moves in and then throws herself off the balcony during her…