Director: Miike Takashi

2003, Japan, 112 min

Cast: Nakamura Yumi, Yamashita Hiroshi, Konishi Natsumi, Okazaki Yoko, Kawai Kenji, Mizunuma Marie, Yamashita Ritsuko

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

Trailer: blairwitch.de

Rumor has it that a vengeful ghost is haunting cell phones and taking lives. When Yumi's friend Yoko gets a call on her cell from herself time-stamped three days in the future, the two friends think it is just an elaborate hoax. However, when Yoko dies three days later uttering the exact same words from the phone call, rumor turns into reality. One by one, Yumi's friends receive mysterious calls and meet with even stranger ends. Determined to escape a similar fate and to put an end to the string of tragedies, Yumi cancels her cell phone and sets out on a terrifying investigation.

Director: Yam Laranas

2004, Philippines, 102 min

Cast: Jomari Yllana, Richard Gutierrez, Angel Locsin, Iza Calzado, James Blanco, Ella Guevara, Ronnie Lazaro

Reviews: Twitch

Official Site: The Echo (Sigaw)

Trailer: The Echo Official Site

In order to seek his independence, Martin moves into an old apartment building only to find himself mired in the domestic violence troubles of a family down the hall. It begins with the sounds of fighting and abuse from the apartment of Lara, her jealous husband Bert, and their daughter Anna. Soon enough, Martin learns that other tenants on the floor are involved in the strife and he can no longer sit idly by while the violence continues. The environment wreaks havoc on Martin's stability, threatening his relationship with girlfriend Pinky, until he resolves to get involved directly. What lurks behind closed doors is a greater evil than Martin could have ever expected.

Director: The Pang Brothers

2002, Hong Kong, 99 min

Cast: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon, Yut Lai So, Candy Lo, Yin Ping Ko, Pierre Png, Edmund Chen, Wai-Ho Yung, Wilson Yip

Review: Movie Review Query Engine

Trailer: Virgin Media

Mun has been blind since she was two, but after a corneal transplant she regains her vision. While she trains her eyes to once more decipher the visual world around her, Mun discovers that she can see more than her earthly environment. Ghosts haunt the corners of her newly reclaimed vision. The hope granted by her surgery turns to horror as Mun is traumatized by her ability of sight.

Director: The Pang Brothers

2006, Thailand/Hong Kong, 108 min

Cast: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Siu-Ming Lau, Rain Li, Jetrin Wattanasin, Yagi Zeng

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

Trailer: blairwitch.de

Ting-yin is a promising young romance writer. Her first book topped the bestseller charts in South East Asia and her fans eagerly await her next book. Unfortunately, Ting-yin comes down with a case of writer's block and begins to buckle under stress from her overzealous publisher who pushes an unreasonable deadline. Each idea for her fictional supernatural setting is scrapped with a disdainful crumple of paper and toss into the trash. As the pressure mounts, her cast-off scribbles take on a life of their own and the alternate reality that belongs to discarded objects is recycled into ours.

Director: Songyos Sugmakanan

2006, Thailand, 110 min

Cast: Charlie Trairat, Chintara Sukapatana, Sirachuch Chienthaworn, Jintara Sukaphatana

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

In compliance with his father's wishes, Ton Chatree enters a boarding school outside of Bangkok in order to focus on his studies away from the bad influences of frivolous pursuits such as television. At his new school, far removed from his family and friends, Ton feels alienated from his fellow classmates. The other children terrorize him with ghost stories about a boy who died in the school swimming pool and a pregnant woman who committed suicide. A loner, Ton's only friend is Vichien, another lonely boy whose troubling past holds the key to solving the mystery of the school's ghastly tales.

Director: Kim Ji-woon

2003, South Korea, 115 min

Cast: Kim Kap-su, Yum Jung-ah, Lim Su-jeong, Mun Geun-yeong, Lee Seung-bi

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

Trailer: blairwitch.de

Teenager Su-Mi is a resident at a psychiatric hospital where she meets with her doctor for treatment of shock and psychosis. During a session, Su-Mi is asked to recount the events that led to her tragic breakdown. In flashback, she relives the days when her father brought her and her sister back to their lakeside estate after some time away, where they are received by their stepmother. The estranged family has troubles that just don't seem to go away. All is not well in house and home, particularly when pasts within pasts are disentangled while the shocking truth waits in mutilated photographs and blood-smeared apparitions.

Director: Bong Joon-ho

2006, South Korea, 119 min

Cast: Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Du-na, Ko Ah-sung

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

Official Site and Trailer: The Host

Morgue employees dispose of hundreds of bottles of formaldehyde into the sewers of new Seoul's Han River, and a bloodthirsty mutant monster is born. Outgrowing its subterranean sovereignty, the monster begins to attack the residents of the city above ground, and snatches Gang-du's daughter. The family bands together to find and fight the mutant, but faces another unlikely enemy: the U.S. government. Thinking the monster is the latest development in biological warfare, American officials plan to fight fire with fire and unleash their own chemical weapons to combat the monster. In order to save his daughter and the city, Gang-du must face both powerful opponents.

Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi

2006, Japan, 104 min

Cast: Yakusho Koji, Konishi Manami, Ihara Tsuyoshi, Hazuki Riona, Odagiri Jo, Kase Ryo, Hirayama Hiroyuki, Okunuki Kaoru, Nakamura Ikuji, Nomura Hironobu

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

Official Site: Sakebi (Japanese)

Police detective Yoshioka investigates the murder of a Jane Doe in a red dress. The cause of death was drowning in a pool of muddy water, and yet the autopsy report shows that the victim's stomach was full of seawater. As Yoshioka pursues the case, all evidence leads back to an unlikely suspect: himself. The case weighs on Yoshioka as more and more bodies are discovered with the same mysterious characteristics.

Director: Sono Sion

2007, Japan, 108 min

Cast: Kuriyama Chiaki, Osugi Ren, Sato Megumi, Tsugumi, Machimoto Eri, Sato Miku, Yamamoto Mirai, Natsuo Yuna, Mitsuishi Ken, Yamamoto Hiroshi, Tanaka Tetsushi, Ebisu Yoshikazu

Reviews: Movie Review Query Engine

Official Site: Exte Movie (Japanese)

Trailer: blairwitch.de

The manner in which a young woman was killed suggests that she was the most recent victim of an organ-harvesting ring that sells human organs on the black market. In addition to the removal of her vital organs, her head has also been shaved, leading investigators to suspect she had been targeted for the manufacture of hair extensions. Morgue security guard Yamazaki takes a liking to her corpse, obsessing over the hair that seems to be growing at an alarming rate. Meanwhile, stylist Yuko is trying to deal with some difficult family problems. The two meet when Yamazaki stops by Yuko's salon and he is instantly taken with the beauty of her hair, hair that reminds him of the exquisite beauty of his favorite corpse.