Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Foreign Cinema: 165 Films to Buy & Rent
Tokyo Zombie (2005)
- Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…
- An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) (2004)
- Dir. Oxide Pang
Feat. Race Wong, Rosanne Wong
- Dir. Oxide Pang's solo followup to THE EYE is also a voyeuristically themed nerve–shredder, set around a young and rich photography student…
Dumplings (Gaau ji) (2004)
- Dir. Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Miriam Yeung
- Grotesque feature length version of Fruit Chan’s submission to the THREE…EXTREMES Asian horror omnibus, this time expanding the deplorable fable…
Eye 2, The (Jian Gui 2) (2004)
- Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Shu Qi, Jesdaporn Pholdee
- Another venture into Asian horror for the Brothers Pang, here thematically sequelling their 2002 hit with the tale of an unhappy woman who gains the…
Ghost, The (Ryeong) (2004)
- Dir. Tae-Kyeong Kim
Feat. Ha-Neul Kim, Sang-Mi Nam
- Modest, but reasonably unnerving ghost story in which an amnesiac university student is seemingly last on a list of friends being dispatched one by…
Infection (Kansen) (2004)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Michiko Hada, Shirô Sano
- A further twist on the vengeful spirit genre sees a burns patient return from the dead as a lethal infection, liquefying victims' internal organs in…
Koma (2004)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Angelica Lee
- The attractive Lee plays a feckless young woman with kidney problems who gets caught up in a scandal involving a gang of organ thieves.
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Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor, aka. Nightwatch) (2004)
- Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov
- A mega–hit in its native Russia, this sci–fi–horror–action cocktail concerns a running battle on the mean streets of…
Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)
- Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas
- Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
Premonition (Yogen) (2004)
- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai
- Competent J–Horror entry posits the intriguing, if unrealised premise of a man whose premonitions foresee the murderous acts of a killer,…