Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Foreign Cinema: 163 Films to Buy & Rent
- Three...Extremes (3 Extremes) (2004)
- Dir. Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- Three prominent Asian maestros of terror serve up an intense and rewarding portmanteau of short horror works.
'Dumplings' (Dir. Fruit Chan)…
- Anatomie 2 (2003)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Competently staged sequel again set in a clinical German medical school, where a new student gradually uncovers a program of human experimentation…
- Green Butchers, The (De grønne slagtere ) (2003)
- Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
- Grim comedy focused on two down–and–out butchers who discover they can make a killing out of their customer's oblivious cannibalistic…
- Grudge 2, The (Ju-On 2) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie…
- Followup to the original Japanese version of dir. Takashi's own JU–ON, this proffers an almost identical vision, with a TV crew visiting the…
- Grudge, The (Ju-On) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
- A horror film that understands that fear is best painted blacker than molasses, this cult Japanese hit follows in the ghostly steps of the RING…
- High Tension (Haute tension, Switchblade Romance) (2003)
- Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Cecile De France, Maïwenn
- A grisly yet indeed tense French horror movie directed with stunning virtuosity, about two women whose rural weekend getaway turns horrific when they…
- One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi…
- Another 'J–horror' riding on the wave of the RING phenomena, updating the supernatural formula with cell–phone technology and…
- Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa Hongryeon) (2003)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim…
- A further revelation of the K–horror genre, this enters the forboding world of two devoted sisters who endure the lakeside household of their…
- Dark Water (2002)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno
- Running rings around the RING films in unsettling atmosphere, rich subtext and jump–in–your–seat moments, this creepy fable of…
- Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)
- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu
- A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan.
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