The Blind Dead
05-07-2007, 09:38 AM
How many of you enjoy riddles? Great, I’ve got a hard one here so listen closely.
What do you get when you cross Ringu with Ju-on and Dark Water and a few bits and pieces from various Korean horror films?
*waits*
Okay, I’ll tell you…The Ghost. That’s right The Ghost is one giant cluster**** of everybody else’s A-horror (Asian Horror) films and guess what…IT STILL WORKS RELATIVELY WELL! Believe it or not The Ghost does stand on its own two feet albeit with the aid of crutches and corrective shoes. Fact is it wasn’t all that bad. Perhaps I’ve just come to expect the large majority of Asian horror films I watch to be nothing more than Ringu clones and have learned to enjoy them?
Perhaps.
Here’s one thing I would like to bring up though. During my extensive studies of Asian horror cinema I’ve come to the realization that…Asian men do not die. I’ve seen countless Asian horror films and don’t believe I’ve seen any male ghosts aside from a male child or two. I sense a little sexism afoot here! Can’t men hold grudges from beyond the grave? Why are men confined to the afterlife while women get to come back and start all kinds of shit as if they’d never died?!! *sigh*
Ji-won Min is a girl without a past after a traumatic experience leaves her with amnesia. Despite the burning questions she has about her past and the accident that left her blank she continues...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000798.html)
What do you get when you cross Ringu with Ju-on and Dark Water and a few bits and pieces from various Korean horror films?
*waits*
Okay, I’ll tell you…The Ghost. That’s right The Ghost is one giant cluster**** of everybody else’s A-horror (Asian Horror) films and guess what…IT STILL WORKS RELATIVELY WELL! Believe it or not The Ghost does stand on its own two feet albeit with the aid of crutches and corrective shoes. Fact is it wasn’t all that bad. Perhaps I’ve just come to expect the large majority of Asian horror films I watch to be nothing more than Ringu clones and have learned to enjoy them?
Perhaps.
Here’s one thing I would like to bring up though. During my extensive studies of Asian horror cinema I’ve come to the realization that…Asian men do not die. I’ve seen countless Asian horror films and don’t believe I’ve seen any male ghosts aside from a male child or two. I sense a little sexism afoot here! Can’t men hold grudges from beyond the grave? Why are men confined to the afterlife while women get to come back and start all kinds of shit as if they’d never died?!! *sigh*
Ji-won Min is a girl without a past after a traumatic experience leaves her with amnesia. Despite the burning questions she has about her past and the accident that left her blank she continues...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000798.html)