Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Foreign Cinema: 163 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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,…
- Spider Forest (2004)
- Dir. Il-gon Song
Feat. Suh Jung, Woo-seong Kam
- A refined and non–linear 'K–horror' concerns an amnesiac filmmaker whose foggy memories of the recent past concern a vast wild forest, a…
- They Came Back (Les Revenants) (2004)
- Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frédéric Pierrot…
- This disquieting, unconventional ‘zombie’ movie concerns a global phenomenon of returning dead, and their subsequent integration back into living…