Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Asian Horror
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Hey
it's October and the whole of this month I'm running the Halloween
Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the weeks.
October 8 - Halloween Edition: Villainous Children (Suggested by Wendell)
October 15 - Halloween Edition: Asian Horror
October 22 - Halloween Edition: Werewolves
October 29 - Halloween Edition: Ghost Movies (Suggested by John Hitchcock)
This is actually the second time I'm running the Halloween edition. If you missed it last year, check out last year's themes below:
October 2 2014 - Unstable Characters (characters that seemed off...eg. Donnie Darko)
October 9 2014 - Zombie Movies
October 16 2014 - Found Footage Movies
October 23 2014 - Vampire Movies
October 30 2014- Haunted Buildings
Hey welcome to another TMP Halloween Edition. This week it's Asian Horror! I don't know if it's true or I'm just imagining it, but has there been fewer Asian Horror released recently. Or at least if there are still as many, they just don't get as much attention? I haven't seen one in a long time. Asian Horror used to be big in the late 90s and early 2000s; all the major hits were getting American remakes. Now it's quiet. Anyway here are my three picks; at least one is recycled but I can't resist.
Shutter (2004)
A photographer and his girlfriend starts noticing mysterious shadows in their photographs after an accident. They start investigating and turns out that the photographer's friends too have such similar photographs; they all share a dark past. Love Shutter. It was remade in 2008. The remake was not as spooky and tragically sad as the original, and it made some odd choices with some of the changes.
The Maid (2005)
Not a lot of local horror movies have been made; this one is really the only one I've seen and I like it. Creepy and I did not guess the twist. In it a young Filipino woman, Rosa, comes to Singapore to work as a live in maid for a local family and arrives on the first day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar where it is believed the gates of hell are open and spirits wander among the living. Her employers advises her on the do's and don'ts for the month so as to not to offend the spirits but Rosa makes a mistake and soon spooky things start to happen.
The Housemaid (2010)
Unlike my other picks today, this one doesn't deal with supernatural; it's more of psychological thriller/horror. In the movie a woman starts working for a wealthy family as a maid and nanny for the couple's daughter. She and the master of the house soon begins an affair and when it is found out, things go nuts. Interesting movie. Very modern, sleek, cold and dark. Not quite sure about the end but I'm definitely interested in seeing the original 1960 movie.
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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?
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Check out some of my random Thursday Movie Picks
Thursday Movie Picks #28: Movies with Colour in the Title
Thursday Movie Picks #17: Movies Featuring Amnesiacs
Thursday Movie Picks #25: Bank Robberies
Thursday Movie Picks #13: Zombie Movies
Thursday Movie Picks #22: Movies that Feature a Family Secret
Thursday Movie Picks #28: Movies with Colour in the Title
Thursday Movie Picks #17: Movies Featuring Amnesiacs
Thursday Movie Picks #25: Bank Robberies
Thursday Movie Picks #13: Zombie Movies
Thursday Movie Picks #22: Movies that Feature a Family Secret
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Haven't seen any of these and they all sound intriguing. Thanks for giving me some titles to look into.
ReplyDeleteThey sound really good especially intriguing is The Maid. I have seen nadda of recent Asian horror movies so my choices are....interesting I guess:)
ReplyDeleteAs long as your choices are Asian movies, they're good.
DeleteI haven't seen any of these, but they sound really interesting. Especially Shutter, I know I skipped the remake when it came out.
ReplyDeleteWatch the original Shutter. Very creepy, and just very sad and tragic when all is revealed.
DeleteNearly all American remakes of Asian horror films screw it up somehow... the only one that really stands up to the original (as far as I know, as I don't really do horror) is The Ring. Shutter sounds like it would make a good double feature with Pulse, though.
ReplyDeleteThe original Housemaid is REALLY good. I haven't seen the remake yet, but I've heard good things.
I still haven't check out Pulse. I heard it is very creepy.
DeleteI really want to see the original Housemaid. Supposedly the remake had a different ending, so I am curious what the original was.
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