Sunday, May 21, 2006

Phone

Original title:
Pon

Directed by:
Byeong-ki Ahn

Made in:
South Korea in 2002

Actors:
Ji-won Ha .... Ji-won
Yu-mi Kim .... Ho-jeong
Woo-jae Choi .... Chang-hoon
Ji-yeon Choi .... Jin-hie
Seo-woo Eun .... Yeong-ju

Plot:
Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some investigating and discovers that of the people before her who had the same number, almost all of them died suddenly under unusual circumstances. As Yeong-ju's behavior becomes increasingly alarming, Ji-won digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the number's first owner, a high school girl named Jin-hie. IMDB

Review:
What an incredible movie!
Asian horror is.. probably my most enjoyable genre. This one is one of the best!

It is very scary and creepy. The plot is excellent and the story flows well. The movie leaves you surprised and continuously guessing.

And the little girl is possibly the best child actor I have ever seen. No, she IS the best child actor I have ever seen.

A fantastic, must-see movie!

Language is in Korean, definately available with subtitles.
Make sure you buy this one so you can watch it over and over again!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Final Destination 3

Written by:
Glen Morgan
James Wong

Directed by:
James Wong

Made in:
USA in 2006

Actors:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead .... Wendy Christensen
Ryan Merriman .... Kevin Fischer
Kris Lemche .... Ian McKinley
Alexz Johnson .... Erin Ulmer
Sam Easton .... Frankie Cheeks
Jesse Moss .... Jason Robert Wise
Gina Holden .... Carrie Dreyer
Texas Battle .... Lewis Romero
Chelan Simmons .... Ashley Freund
Crystal Lowe .... Ashlyn Halperin
Amanda Crew .... Julie Christensen
Maggie Ma .... Perry Malowinski
Ecstasia Sanders .... Amber Regan
Jody Racicot .... Bludworth
Patrick Gallagher .... Colquitt

Plot:
After a high school senior, Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), has a fatal premonition of a disastrous roller-coaster accident that involves her and her friends, she warns everyone and luckily gets herself and many of her friends and others off the roller-coaster before it sets off, after they get off and the roller-coaster starts off, it crashes just like in her premonition, soon she teams up with a friend, Kevin Fischer (Ryan Merriman) as well as many other people, some including Erin (Alexz Johnson) and Ian (Kris Lemche) to try and cheat death. Will they succeed or will they learn a lesson that you just can't cheat death? IMDB

Review:
Probably the worst of the 3 Final Destination movies. The first is still by far my favorite. This one drags. The beginning is boring and drawn out. The characters are annoying, too. It is.. more for teenagers, this movie. In the first two movies, the characters see clues as to the next deaths, these clues are in pictures, and it is.. silly. The deaths are good and bloody and entertaining, especially seeing the two annoying females die in the tanning beds. But everything was foreseeable in the movie, nothing was left to be a surprise.

It wasn't enough.

Watch it if you have the chance, but don't go out of your way.