Discuss Non-Anime J-Horror Movies & J-Thrillers
Examples:
- Ringu/Ringu 2/Rasen/Ringu 0: Birthday
- Ju-On
- Death Note/Death Note: The Last Name/Death Note: L Changed the World


Also:

Ringu 3 is in the works

Audition...probably one of the most fucked up films ever...

what about Guinea Pig Series?

I agree but that movie is but one of the MANY fucked up films Takashi Miike has done. Visitor Q, Ichii the Killer, Gozu, Box(from Three Extremes). He's the best when it comes to just disturbing imagery and situations. King of J-Horror without question. But on the flip, he's done some non horrifying, odd quirky movies as well like Zebraman, Great Yokai War and Happiness of the Katukuris. Not my favorite director but I'm always compelled to watch whatever he directs.

Whoa, geeked out there. I need to reel it in a bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Miike

What about Flowers of Flesh and Blood (Video link in spoilers, DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE SQUEEMISH)

Man I don't even know where to start on describing how great asian-horror is. If anyone is just getting their feet wet, then they should pick up Ringu by default.

Takashi Shimizu is one of my personal favorites. He did Reincarnation which was one of the Afterdark Horrorfest films in '06.

I haven't really taken a liking to most of the Japanese horror I've seen... the best one I've seen though was Kwaidan; it had a very visceral feel and beautiful camerawork.

The Ring/Ringu is, IMO, the most overrated horror film of all time (yes, it even beats The Exorcist) and I just can't see what's so good about it; the director even showed his revolutionary technique which makes all horror movies scary: long silence and then a sudden, loud sound accompanied by the scary thing
Yeah, real creative there (check out the English show Japanorama for the interview)

One film I really want to see though is Uzumaki. I seems pretty cool...

I think the Ring series is more a psycho-thriller instead of a horror.

I think it would serve us better talking about asian-horror instead of just japanese. There are quite a few korean films. One in particular that I like is Tale of Two Sisters. There are some really creepy scenes.

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but I haven't really watched much horror outside of Japanese Horror But I will change it.

Haven't seen that so I stopped myself from clicking. There are a bunch of Miike I have yet to see.

Some more reference with some nice pics for those that aren't familiar with Miike.

http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/fantasia2003_pt2.html

Yeah K-Horror is pretty good, the presentation on Korean DVD's are almost at the level of $60 Japan R2 ones. Lots of K-Horror out there, 85% of what Tartan puts out is K-Horror. I haven't seen any Korean horror film blow me away though.

The ending of the movie shows spoils nothing except people are dead

But yeah Ichi the killer was good (the anime was hilarious) , I like the works of Miike, but I also like psychological stuff

I am suprisingly not a huge fan of asian horror, ive seen a few asian horror movies I really liked alot, a few that were OK and a whole bunch that just didnt do it for me.

I much prefer the in your face blood and guts american horror, give me a guy in a hockey mask with a machette choping up dope smoking horny teenagers in the woods any day, I just love the crass, over the top blood and guts and almost cartoon violence in the steriotypical american horror movies.

Any one else seen the Host?!

This weird Korean monster movie is just...too damn cool for words!

I've wanted to see it since seeing Cloverfield (mainly as people claimed that if I didn't like it I should see The Host)

Well if you are able to, sign up for a Netflix trial. You can then watch The Host off their site for free.

don't you need a credit card for the free trial?

Yes you do. You can use one of those Visa gift cards that act like credit cards.