Crying Fiddle (Review)
Crying Fiddle
aka แว่วเสียงซอ
2004
Directed by Jarin Parnsain
Time once again for some Thai shot on video horror! It’s when the guessing game is the horror in the film…or the film itself??? Usually it’s the film. Will it be the case this time? Duh!
This time we have the story of a girl who dies and comes back as a vengeful ghost who also happens to be green. Why green? Why the heck not? It’s not like we’re treading new ground with green ghosts, remember Slimer? But there will be no Ghostbusting…oh, there IS Ghostbusting, by a few Thai Buddhist priests, but they are the ones who get busted instead! Bustin’ doesn’t make them feel good, I tell you what.
For 73 minutes of generic ghost gunk, the film is okay. But it is the type of film you finish, go “Oooooookay…”, and then immediately start another film and never think about it again. Unless you write reviews on the internet, in which case you spend 30 minutes writing up a review and then never think about it again. You see what I go through for TarsTarkas.NET?
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Categories: Movie Reviews, Ugly Tags: Jarin Parnsain, Koontira Sattabongkot, long black haired ghosts, Ninnart Sinchai, Thailand
Antoo Fighter (Review)
Antoo Fighter
2008SinemaMalasysia Link
Directed by Azizi Chunk
What we got here is sort of Malaysian Ghostbusters, but they use stick weapons instead of proton packs. Instead of busting ghosts we’re fighting monsters and demons. The mood is humorous, not taken too seriously, sort of like the actual Ghostbusters. With people running around in wacky costumes fighting monsters, the film can’t not be entertaining, double negative or not. Good fun. What other film let’s you see a giant Monsters Inc. character battle a giant robot? Take that, Iron Man!
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Lizard Woman (Review)
Lizard Woman
aka Tuk Kae Phii
2004
Directed by Manop Udomdej
Lizard Woman is from Thailand, and in Thailand and other parts of southeast Asia there are geckos everywhere. Geckos permeate the culture, they are like lizard cockroaches and poop all over. The big city is supposed to be above having geckos around, which is indicative of the countryside and the less modern people who live there. Yes, class struggles in Thailand, how interesting. Regardless, gecko women is a common horror meme, there are probably a lot of ancient tales about them related to the snake-women phenomenon that is all over Asia. I know of one other Gecko horror movie (called Gecko, believe it or not! And I have it on vcd…) and have seen enough covers of Thai films to know there are probably others.
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Gehara: The Dark and Long Hair Monster (Review)
Gehara: The Dark and Long Hair Monster
aka Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara aka Long-Haired Giant Monster: Gehara
2009
Directed by Kiyotaki Taguchi
Gehara is a made for TV short that is the brainchild of cult entertainer Jun Miura, who wrote the screenplay. Special effects guru Shinji Higuchi supervised production on the short film, and it was directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi (who also did the independent kaiju film G.) It aired on Japan’s NHK network in February 24th, 2009. It hit the internet thanks to a Japanese YouTube-like site, and thus TarsTarkas.NET was able to watch it.
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Categories: Movie Reviews, Ugly Tags: Japan, kaiju, Ken Osawa, Kiyotaki Taguchi, long black haired ghosts, Mina Fujii, Mitsuko Oka, Shiro Sano, Tomorowo Taguchi
The Grudge 3 going DTV
No movie release for the latest crappy sequel to a crappy Japanese horror film with ghost girls with black hair. That genre is more played out than PG-13 torture porn. I can’t wait for this to get on DVD so I can go about ignoring its existence.
via moviehole (because bloody-disgusting has a terrible search function!)
The second sequel to the Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring remake of a superior Asian horror film is shooting in – of course – Bulgaria under the direction of Toby Wilkins says Bloody Disgusting. Matthew Knight, who played Jake in “The Grudge 2†(which one was he? Did he appear before I left the theater?), will be back for this next installment.
In the film, a young Japanese woman holds the secret to ending the curse of the Grudge. She travels to the haunted Chicago apartment building where she encounters a family battling to survive. Together they confront the ghost of Kayako to save their souls from their impending tragic fate.
Categories: Movie News Tags: long black haired ghosts
Dead Friend (Review)
Dead Friend
aka The Ghost aka Ryeong
2004
Starring
Kim Ha-neul as Min Ji-won
Nam Sang-mi as Su-in
Bin as Eun-seo
Shin Yi as Shin Mi-kyung
Asian horror grows ever popular, and it’s coming from all fronts, Japan, China, and South Korea (with some Thai thrown in for good measure.) The movies Ringu and Ju-on have helped forefront and onslaught of ghost films, many of them featuring creepy schoolgirls with long hair covering their face. I bring that up because you wouldn’t guess what the ghost here looks like….yep, gave it away. So what sets this film apart from the rest of the clones? What? Kim Ha-neul from Too Beautiful to Lie! Nam Sang-mi from Spygirl and Too Beautiful to Lie! Shin Yi from Sex is Zero! It’s a convention-fest-o-rama of cute Korean girls who’ve showed up here before! That’s almost enough to forgive the ghost rehash.
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Categories: Movie Reviews, Ugly Tags: Bin, ghosts, Kim Ha-neul, Korea, long black haired ghosts, Nam Sang-mi, Yi Shin
