31 Asian Horror Movies — Film Comment

Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered.

A man and woman are kicked out of the Court of Heaven on trumped up charges of bringing shame onto the Kingdom.

An expert swordsman is suspected of being the thief of a treasure sent to Emperor. The swordsman who has nothing to do with the theft investigates and is led on the trail of the supernatural "Bloody Parrot".

A woman researches a book that takes her to the black magic cult of Leák in Bali. She meets an evil witch who promises to train her dark arts. But she is tricked and turned into a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck.

A killer wears women's clothing and stalks others that wear fish-net stockings.

The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.

The Siu family move into a a new flat. There are disturbing signs, for instance the cemetery next door.

An international school in Kobe, Japan is catapulted into the future after a time-slip occurs.

A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires.

A mainland Chinese girl is, with her husband, a wanted criminal and they have to get to Hong Kong in order to stay alive and be free.

Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.

A man with magical machine that turns people into beautiful dolls.

An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.

Based on a true crime that took place in a remote Thai village in 1977, a young woman's body is found stranged and raped along a stretch of railroad tracks. Two local police officers are on the case and through their plodding ways they uncover a crime that is darker than they ever imagined.

A wheelchair bound man goes on a killing spree to ease his hurt when a local college coed rebuffs his amorous advances.

Whilst growing up in rural Thailand, a young orphan girl is taught the ways of magic by her grandmother. But when grandmother falls sick, Dau is lured to Bangkok to find work so that she can buy medicine. She finds herself working in a go-go bar, and her journey from naiveté to maturity is swift. She uses the magical skills her grandmother taught her to her advantage, but in doing so makes enemies within the bar. As her magic gets darker, and the consequences increasingly horrific, she gradually loses control, and something evil takes over.

A woman falls for a charming and mysterious businessman. The whirlwind romance turns sour when she is framed for his underworld crimes. Now, finally out of prison she is ready for sweet revenge.

One elevator, one girl who can read minds and one floor where the elevator should have never stopped: the ideal ingredients for a classic piece of weird horror. In the claustrophobic space of the elevator, a bunch of screwed up psychos who board halfway through produce absolute madness and mayhem on every square inch.

Three lonely individuals in Tokyo contemplate suicide, their lives intertwining through surreal dreams and nightmares until a shocking event changes everything.

About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.

The making of a snuff film from both the perspectives the killers and of the victims.

A jaded cop. A narcoleptic journalist. A nation divided. A Fantasy you'd wish never come true.

A young writer can't write a word for his next novel, he also doesn't feel right with his fiancée; because he falls in love with a woman, but he can't remember who she is and can't figure out if she's real or just a dream.

Recovering from a failed love affair, Shiyori and best friend Aiko head to the country. But they soon discover that the tranquil village is the home of a cult with a fetish for cutting off female legs. They try to escape but are split up and keep in touch via mobile phone. But will they meet a grisly end?

As a teenager, Yoko discovers that she is not really an orphan when her wealthy but very strange family welcomes her home to a mansion that many claim is haunted.