Ji-won (Ha-Neul Kim), suffering amnesia after an “incident” a year ago, has decided to study abroad, much to the chagrin of her possessive mother. When one of her old friends drowns in her kitchen, Ji-won begins to investigate the past, and discovers she was a rather unpleasant girl, with three unpleasant friends, all of whom
Years ago, a family of millionaires committed mass suicide by hanging. Now James (Jason Chang), brought up in England, has inherited a rotting, labyrinthine mansion. He settles in with his fiancée Yo (Terri Kwan), a successful dancer who is uncertain that a life with James will be fulfilling. The house proves to be a poor
A series of interrelated vignettes of horrible deaths, Ju-On slowly reveals why ghosts are killing the living, and why it will never end. Quick Review: Ju-On is part of the Japanese new wave of horror started by Ringu. The films in the movement tend to be more frightening than almost any other movies, and also
Hoping to help her destitute family and dying brother, young, innocent, Filipino Rosa (Alessandra De Rossi) has taken a job as a maid in Singapore with the Teo family. They are kind, though Mr. Teo is distant and Mrs. Teo is domineering. Their twenty-year-old son, Ah Soon (Benny Soh) is mentally retarded and likes Rosa a bit
Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) and her friends are having a more or less pleasant evening out (that’s as good as it gets for Yumi, who has never completely recovered from her childhood abuse) when one of Yumi’s friends checks her voice mail to find she’s gotten a call from the future—from herself—indicating the time of
Michi turns up at Taguchi’s apartment to pick up a computer disk and to make sure he’s OK. Since he hangs himself, it’s clear he wasn’t OK. Another friend gets the disk, and then he begins to act strangely too. Meanwhile, Kawashima, a university student, is setting up his first computer. He’s frightened when it
During the Vietnam war, a motley platoon of Korean soldiers, led by a sadistic sergeant and a lieutenant who has a reputation for losing men, are sent to find a unit that disappeared six months ago. They make their camp in an abandoned building in the middle of sacred ground and immediately are engulfed in
Timid actress Nagisa Sugiura gets a lead role in a horror film that reenacts a mass murder. Years ago, a professor obsessed with reincarnation, killed the staff and guests of a hotel, including his own children. Nagisa has visions related to the horrendous event, and soon can’t tell the difference between the movie-shoot and the real
The Ring (2001) Anyone who watches a strange videotape dies one week later. A reporter (Naomi Watts/Matsushima Nanako/Shin Eun-Kyung) and her ex search for the origins of the tape, and how to stop the curse before it kills them and their child . Horror films are rarely actually frightening. They can be sickening, repulsive, suspenseful,
Gen-Y thrill seekers watch a cursed videotape that kills in 7 days, and then see how long they can hold out before having someone else watch a duplicate, thus breaking the curse. Jake (Ryan Merriman), an obnoxious high school student, is drawn in by the college crowd to play this dangerous game, but when the