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Upon its release in 1998, the Korean ghost film “Whispering Corridors” proved to be immensely successful in part with its release at the forefront of the J-Horror Movement. Appearing as a contemporary of celebrated titles “Ringu” and “Ju-On” among numerous others, it helped to spawn a franchise. “Memento Mori” arrived one year later and then this third entry a couple of years later. Helmed by first-time director Yun Jae-yeon and feeling very much like a retread of the material the genre was producing elsewhere around the world, that does strike this one down slightly even with its celebrated positives.

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In a Korean boarding school, lesbian ballet student Kim So-hee (Park Han-byeol) is in deep love with her passive girlfriend and fellow ballet student Yoon Jin-sung (Song Ji-hyo) who won’t return her affection. When an announcement is made about a competition for...

The fascination with legal dramas and lawyer shows is a worldwide obsession, one that has only continued to grow in popularity as TV audiences have shifted to streaming services like Netflix. Series like Law & Order and its many spin-offs, as well as hit comedies like Ally McBeal and Boston Legal, have humanized the public servants who work in the legal system. Whether it’s a murder trial, a sexual assault case, or attempting to take down a mob boss, the dramatic suspense inside a courtroom is just plain undeniable.

Because lawyer shows are such guaranteed crowd-pleasers, there are a plethora of them in various genres across all kinds of networks. Streaming has been a revolutionary medium in how much it’s changed the way people watch TV, so there’s no surprise that Netflix is the king of digital entertainment, including shows about lawyers. Providing not only the classic...

In the previous episode of Netflix’s Doubt, we were made privy to the kind of relationship Jang Tae-soo shared with his daughter Ha-bin. Things were not fine between them, and moreover, Tae-soo had no trust whatsoever in his daughter because of what had happened in the past. At the end of the episode, Tae-soo was assigned a murder case, and at the same time, Ha-bin went missing. After going to the crime scene, Tae-soo suspected that his daughter had some role to play in this mess. He didn’t know if she was the killer or the victim at first, but then he found her alive at the end of the episode. Tae-soo desperately wanted to prove himself wrong, and he wanted to believe that his daughter was innocent. But all the evidence pointed towards her, and Tae-soo just couldn’t ignore that. So let’s recap the events...

"Is he somebody I can trust?" Disney+ in Korea and Hulu in the US (and Star elsewhere around the world) have just premiered another sneaky sci-fi series from Korea titled Blood Free. The original Korean title is actually Dominant Species, but had to drop that for the English title. A former bodyguard is recruited to protect the CEO of a lab-grown meat company who's also a survivor of an attack that changed his own life. Humans have consumed animal meat for millions of years. Bf, a bio-technology company that started the era of artificially cultured meat, dominates the market, and people who doubt the Bf CEO's actions begin to appear one after another, both inside & outside. The series tells of a world of superior genes & viruses where all food is consumed in the form of a pill. Following those who harbor suspicions on the whereabouts of the CEO of Bf,...

It’s the final week of September, and you better believe the new horror releases are going to ramp up big time in the coming weeks. But first we’ve got Seven new movies this week!

Here’s all the new horror releasing September 25 – October 1, 2023.

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

The ultra-violent horror movie Megalomaniac (read Meagan’s review) was released in select theaters earlier this month, and the film hit VOD outlets on Tuesday, September 26.

Winner of the top Jury Prize (Best Feature) at the Fantasia Film Festival, this brutal and dark serial killer film utilizes the backdrop of an unsolved true crime.

With Megalomaniac, prolific filmmaker Karim Ouelhaj, Méliès d’Or winner for The Frozen Eye (2016), brings us his fourth feature and by far his most savage.

In the film, “Martha and Félix are the children of the Butcher of Mons,...

Gangnam Zombie is the latest single-location horror flick about the walking dead. The gravely serious opening sequence, which is a preview of what’s to come for these sudden survivalists, doesn’t quite convey the movie’s overall tone, though. As a whole, zombie apocalypses tend to mean serious business, but here you should expect to see more silliness than unadulterated thrills.

It’s Christmas Eve when an office building in the Gangnam District of Seoul becomes a festering zombie hotspot. Yet before the flesh-eaters even show up, this cast of unlucky characters is fighting to stay alive in a post-Pandemic world. In fact, the trouble begins when two crooks hope to find something valuable inside a shipping container from China. Instead they discover a feline stowaway whose bites turn one of the criminals into patient zero. As things tend to go in these kinds of movies, the infection spreads and chaos ensues.

There are many mysteries on the 2000s drama Lost, and Kevin Johnson's identity is one of the biggest and most compelling questions. After Oceanic Flight 815 crashes, the survivors are stunned to find themselves on an island, and they form alliances and take care of one another while flashbacks reveal who they were before. There are several curious puzzles on the island, from the fact that John Locke can walk after years of using a wheelchair to the purpose of the Dharma Initiative. The only thing that's clear is that this isn't a place that can be easily summed up.

While there are questions like who the polar bears are on Lost, the show also hides identities. For instance, in Lost season 1, the survivors hear "The French Woman" via radio signal and later learn she is Danielle Rosseau. Lost brilliantly crafts a mystery surrounding who Kevin Johnson is, and as...

Exclusive: Well Go USA Entertainment has expanded its slate of Korean films, acquiring North American rights to titles including Alienoid, Hansan: Rising Dragon, Gangnam Zombie, The Ghost Station and The Assassin. While the international and indie distributor has set theatrical releases in place for Alienoid and Hansan, plans for the other three films have not yet been finalized.

Alienoid is the first in a series of two big-budget sci-fi films from director Choi Dong-hoon. Ryu Jun-Yeol, Kim Woo-bin and Kim Tae-ri star in the pic, which is being distributed in Korea by Cj Enm.

Directed by Kim Han-min and starring Park Hae-il, Byun Yo-han and Ahn Sung-ki, Hansan: Rising Dragon is a follow-up to 2014’s The Admiral: Roaring Currents—the most-watched film in Korean cinema history—which brings to life the historic Battle of Hansan Island. Its Korean distributor is Lotte Entertainment.

In the horror film Gangnam Zombie, from director Lee Soo-sung,...