Happiness is a Luxury

Surprisingly I was at home on a Saturday night. With nothing else to do and armed with a new bought DVD I had my personal Horror movie marathon. The Dvd promised said 40 in one but I think is just lame way pirated dvd's are marketed. (I am not promoting pirated dvd's but where could you buy decent Asia horror movies? Well definitely not in your friendly Astro Vision). I couldn't really make out the English titles of most movies in the DVD since it's in Korean, Japanese and Thai.

I watched the first movie which was Alone.

Alone (Thai: แฝด, or Fad, literally "twin") is a 2007 Thai horror film directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, a duo whose debut film, Shutter, was a box-office smash in Thailand and other Asian countries. Alone stars Thai-German pop singer Marsha Wattanapanich in her first film role in 15 years.

The movie is ok I guess. Not really that scary. I almost fell asleep halfway the movie. The pacing was kinda dragging. The scaring attempts were nothing new. The usual long haired ghost...I wonder why do all ghosts look alike?

I kinda liked the plot twists. It's nothing really new though. If you really want a twisted sisterly love plot you should watch tale of two sister.

I don't recommend this movie to hard core horror movie addicts but for the normal folks this could be scary.

The second movie I watched is Red shoes. I love shoes and a horror movie about red shoes definitely drew my attention.

The Red Shoes (Hangul: 분홍신, Revised Romanization Bunhongsin) is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Kim Yong-gyun. It is inspired by the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.

This was a better movie than Alone. I liked the cinematography and the play of colors in the movie. The scary tactics were effective since there where images that kinda stuck at my memory. Still its not the type of movie that scared me shitless.

There were lots and lots of blood. The first scene was already gory where you will see a girl's feet cut off. I was kinda sleepy by the movie Alone and somehow my thirst for blood guts and gore came alive again.

The story and plot could have been done better. The ending was kinda off. The main character became crazy that's the time where the movie no longer made sense.

Its another typical curse movie. You get a cursed object, you find out why it's curse then when you think your off the hook the curse still kills you. Yehey for the Mumu's!

This movie could have a potential for a good movie but i guess they just overdid it. For the record the shoes in the movie was not even red its was hot pink.

The last movie I watched was Cadaver (that's what it said in the subtitle). I was just flipping from the Korean, Japan titles and the starting seemed interesting.

The Cut a.k.a Cadaver is a new korean horror movie (made just last year) directed by Son Tae Woong. The Cut made headlines with its sexy, provocative poster featuring a female silhouette. The Cut also makes use of a state-of-the-art cadaver model to enhance realism and visual scares.

Compared to the other movie this is not ghost movie. It's more of killer or slasher movie. At first you might think its your usual curse movie. I thought the medical students where just cursed and haunted by the dead cadaver they were working on. It's more than that. The cadaver/ghost was just a bystander. The evil mad doctors are the one to blame. One must never play God.

You will see lots of dead body in the movie since it is set mostly in the autopsy room. I loved the medical school campus. I wished my school looked like that.

This movie has more human soul compared to the other movies. It should the emotions and frustration of most medical students and its not because of the bloody cadaver. You got to know the characters.

Then everything turns hell when one after another is being killed. Actually from the group only two actually killed the nerd and the slut. Then there was one who became insane...oh he got killed also. Then there was suicide. There where two people left in the end the love team which consist of almost necrophiliac embalmer's son and the sweet nice looking girl (who is by the way the daughter of the cadaver and the professor who is possessed by a one eye doctor with a polio who is the one who does the killing spree). That basically wraps the movie in its complexities.

I don't know if its applicable to all Korean horror movies but does everything becomes damn crazy in the end?

Oh well I did have fun watching those movies. Definitely made up my staying at home during Saturdays. I still have more films to watch though from the DVD I bought.