As he struggled through his shoot in an abandoned utility, the martinet director of a low-end zombie film was fuming over the stilted performances and shoddy effects. He'd get a burst of renewed... more
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
Yumiko Shaku, Shin Takuma. Godzilla battles a relentless mechanical double. In Japanese with English audio & subtitles. 2002/color/84 min/NR/widescreen.
A sexually rapacious Asian goddess known as the "Queen of the South Sea," possesses the body of a young female skin diver. Armed with an AK47 and an endless supply of bullets, this murderous Lady... more
Misato Tanaka. As Japanese scientists test their new plan to finally destroy Godzilla, an insect trapped in it mutates and becomes a 50-meter giant dragonfly queen, who in turn produces gargantuan... more
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to... more
Featuring Japanese punk/rock band Guitar Wolf. Ace thinks he's really cool, but en route to see his favorite band, strange happenings entangle Ace and the band in an alien invasion with gun-toting... more
Saeko Kizuki, Naomi Hagio. Horny photographers and their models are shooting in the woods when a dense fog suddenly rolls in. But when they take refuge in an abandoned house nearby, they encounter a... more
A camping trip will turn into a nightmare for sisters Akane and Kozue when they become trapped by five men who abuse and torture them. Kozue is brutally murdered but her sister manages to escape Now,... more
Kazuhiro Sano, Megumi Ozawa, Ken Yoshizawa. A gore-fest from Gaira follows up Entrails of a Virgin. A psychologist infiltrates a gang whose modus operandi is to brutally rape and drug their female... more
Two horrific and blood-drenched stories intertwine in this graphically violent feature film from Kei Fujiwara (star of Tetsuo). a Tokyo police officer falls victim to a Yakuza body-parts selling... more
French Indochina, 1953: Desperate for shelter, young refugee Linh (Kate Nhung) stumbled onto the rubber plantation owned by widowed Sebastien Laurent (Jean-Michel Richaud). Offered a domestic's... more
During the plague-ravaged years of the early-16th-century Joseon dynasty, King Jung Joon (Park Hee-Soon) looked to quell rumors that the rising death toll in the countryside was in fact attributable... more
A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the... more
A handful of people have been abducted and lie bloodied and bound on the floor of a rotting slaughterhouse. Nearby, a team of snuff film producers are discussing their gruesome handiwork: Torturing... more
In Japanese, subtitled in English - Nami, a talk show hostess, tells her audience to send in home videos to profile on her late night program. Soon, she receives an anonymous videotape in the mail -... more
Zinda Laash - the Living Corpse - is a film so rare that even the most exhaustive studies of vampire films don't mention it. Although the film caused a sensation on it's release back in the 1960's,... more
During a routine march at an island military training camp, an army recruit is found dead at exactly 23:59. This mysterious and gruesome incident unearths a terrifying dark secret of the haunted... more
Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji. Three years after a married Japanese woman and her lover kill her husband and dump the body in a well, his ghost returns to haunt her while the police open an... more
In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, the girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a "pre-death" state of... more
A deadly virus outbreak is turning the people of Japan into flesh-eating zombies. The government intervenes, trying to separate the survivors from the infected. Ryouichi, a young boy who has his... more