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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #66: Halloween Edition - Asian Horror


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 1 - Halloween Edition: Alfred Hitchcock Movies
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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8 comments:

  1. DellOctober 15, 2015 at 9:46 AM

    Haven't seen any of these and they all sound intriguing. Thanks for giving me some titles to look into.

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  2. BirgitOctober 15, 2015 at 10:58 AM

    They sound really good especially intriguing is The Maid. I have seen nadda of recent Asian horror movies so my choices are....interesting I guess:)

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    1. WandererOctober 22, 2015 at 5:01 AM

      As long as your choices are Asian movies, they're good.

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  3. Brittani BurnhamOctober 15, 2015 at 7:40 PM

    I haven't seen any of these, but they sound really interesting. Especially Shutter, I know I skipped the remake when it came out.

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    1. WandererOctober 22, 2015 at 4:38 AM

      Watch the original Shutter. Very creepy, and just very sad and tragic when all is revealed.

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  4. DanielOctober 15, 2015 at 9:33 PM

    Nearly 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.

    The original Housemaid is REALLY good. I haven't seen the remake yet, but I've heard good things.

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    1. WandererOctober 22, 2015 at 4:37 AM

      I still haven't check out Pulse. I heard it is very creepy.

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    2. WandererOctober 22, 2015 at 5:03 AM

      I 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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