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For those wanting to get into the Halloween spirit, here are some of the upcoming “horror” movies showing on TV. (I use quotes because Asian movies in this genre tend to be quite different from Western horror movies, featuring more creepy atmosphere and less gore.) class ul class li Ju-on
SHOWBP Tue 10/24 23:45; TMC Sat 10/28 01:25; TMCP Sat 10/28 04:25
class li The Grudge
HBOZP Mon 10/23 12:25, Sat 10/28 23:00; HBOSIGP Wed 10/25 16:00; HBOP Mon 10/30 11:15
class li Dark Water
SHOCSEP Thu 10/26 07:30 15:45, Sun 10/29 16:20; SUNDAEP Tue 10/31 20:00
class li The Ring Two
MAXP Tue 10/31 14:00; MOMAXP Wed 11/01 16:00
class li Gozu
SHOTOO Tue 10/31 23:45; SHOTOOP Wed 11/01 02:45
class li Pyrokinesis
SHOWBP Sat 10/28 06:00 13:10 18:20
class li Infection
SHOW Tue 10/24 00:55; SHOWP Tue 10/24 03:55; SHOWBP Wed 10/25 12:00 20:20, Mon 10/30 07:45 22:00; SEDGP Mon 10/30 15:40 22:50; SHOTOO Tue 10/31 21:00; SHOTOOP Wed 11/01 00:00
class li The Eye 2
SHOWBP Tue 10/24 10:05 15:05, Sat 10/28 20:20, Sun 10/29 02:40; SHOTOO Thu 11/02 08:35; SHOTOOP Thu 11/02 11:35
class li Premonition
TMCXP Thu 10/26 12:40; TMC Tue 10/31 11:50; TMCP Tue 10/31 14:50
class li Secret Tears
AZNTV Thu 10/26 17:00 22:00, Sun 10/29 21:00
class li Memento Mori
SUNDAEP Tue 10/31 03:30
class li Kibakichi
SHOWXP Fri 10/27 22:00
Of these, I would recommend the Ju-on series (Ju-on, The Grudge) and Dark Water (directed by Nakata, Hideo, who also directed the Ringu series including The Ring Two and Chaos).

I would recommend against Kibakichi.

This weekend, I watched Memento Mori, one of the few Korean films in this genre. I thought it was OK (2.75 stars out of four) and saw that it was up for some awards. It shows that Korean movies are much less reserved than TV dramas since we find little horror and lesbian romance in Korean TV series. It has atmosphere, and the romance in an all-girls school was good. But the movie was too scattered for my taste: I don't enjoy having to re-watch the first half hour of a movie to see what it all meant.

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class blockquote ccwf wrote:

Of these, I would recommend the Ju-on series (Ju-on, The Grudge) and Dark Water (directed by Nakata, Hideo, who also directed the Ringu series including The Ring Two and Chaos).
Ooh, AZN TV is giving us a treat on Halloween. From 6–9pm, they're showing the original Ju-on and Ju-on 2 movies. These have never before been shown in the U.S. in theaters or on TV. They're the ones that started the franchise and were followed by Ju-on: The Grudge (the one on Showtime and The Movie Channel above), The Grudge (on HBO), and The Grudge 2 (now in movie theaters). Those who've seen The Grudge with Sarah Michelle Gellar will have seen its brief recap of the story of the original movie (since American audiences couldn't be expected to have seen it).

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Gozu
SHOTOO Tue 10/31 23:45; SHOTOOP Wed 11/01 02:45
I found Gozu (Cow Head) not to my liking. Billed as “Yakuza Horror Theater”, it certainly is that, with an emphasis on the theater. It's very, very out there, in a Dada-ist way, with a minimal plot loosely linking together striking/shocking imagery. I will add that maybe the incoherence of the movie can be explained as a bunch of spirits all playing random tricks on the main character: there is a reference late in the movie that supports that possibility.

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