Bunshinsaba

A.k.a. Ouija Board or Witch board
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415689/
The writer/director Byeong-ki Ahn who have done the more well known horror movie (atleast in the western part of the world) Pon (Phone) - a review on that will come here on this blog soon. In Bunshinsaba a young girl; Yu Jin ( Se-eun Lee) are mobbed/bullied at school, so to stop that she and 2 other girls who are outcasts calls for demonic help.
In a dark classroom they call for a spirit; Yu Jin says to her two classmates; Are you afraid?
They both nod silently.

They have cast a spell on their tourmentors, whom basicly bursting out in flames. One by one the evil girls in school dies. Someone however is convinced that all of the killing has something to do with the past. A dark past of the small village.

One of many girls burns














Kim In Suk ( Yu-ri Lee) has been burned alive when she was young, pre to the actuall story to the movie - a new schoolteacher; Lee Eun-ju (Gyu-ri Kim) is like our ”guide” throughout the story.
I will explain what I mean by that in short terms. As for us, the wievers, we will have to be curious about what has happened and therefor a new villager is being placed in the village - uposite to for example nightmare on Elm street where allready existing neighbours try to cover up the truth about their dark past from the younger teens. In Bunshinsaba the viewers are as much as the teens in NOES, that is; unaware of the crimes in the past.
Miss Lee knows nothing, as much as the viewers, on what has happened before in the village. The people living in the village however tremble in fear of the name Kim In Suk. So when Miss Lee is starting her day and reading up the names of the girls in class, she stumble upon a name, the girls panic.

Is Kim In Suk prescent?














Ho-Kyeong (Jeong-yun Choi) is a medium who will try to find out why so many of the girls put plastic bags over their heads and let themself on fire. Kyeong casts Yu Jin under a pshyciatric spell as she tries to solve her mystery.
The truth that she and the rest of us will find may scare some, some will find this an “original rip-off” to Nightmare on Elm street.

Yu Jin













To be perfectly fair, I love ghost movies from asia, so this one should definitelly suit me. On the minus account, it is a rip off, in some way, to Nightmare on Elm street.
However it feels original, smart and deep enough to make it on its own.
The acting is at some points solid and in some scenes above solid/average.

The thing that makes this movie enjoyable is ofcourse the solid background to the ghosts deeds and the villagers desire to cover up certain things.
It also shows that the ghost isn´t necessarily evil, it may aswell be the humans that are bad.

Come on baby light my fire













If you are into “the newer wave” of ghost movies from asia, Bunshinsaba is a movie for you.
If you by any means have some doubts about asian ghost movies being all the same; girl with long black hair etc you will not like this.
Bunshinsaba gives “away” the actuall doers of the crimes rather quickly, it focus mostly thereafter on developing the caracthers as somehow real humans with dept.
If it works as a whole?
I would say it tries and succeed in some points; the ghost/demon and its desire for revenge becomes more human then scary (allthough humans are basicly more scary then ghosts are, my own reflections).
Bunshinsaba reminds me, not only on Nightmare on Elm street - for some various reasons wich I wont give away - but also reminds me about other movies in the genre.

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You wanted it. I´m not leaving.
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I saw that thing around you.
What was it?
...A ghost.
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmLrRnag9js

Trivia
The korean word Bunshinsaba means abacadabra, wich is the spell to awake/cast demons into our world.

Yu Jin is possessed

The insanity continues

Something that has happened during the last weeks is the following.

A man has been jailed in sweden for childporographic pictures on his computer. That´s a good thing he got jailed right.
Now, to the big controversy about the whole thing. It was manga.
Sweden is extremly hard on these things, the hardest there is in europe. However the law is, as many laws, full of controversy and double moral. We may think whatever we want about the whole "idea" of comparing manga comics to childpornography. I will give some examples of some of the mangas that are being sold in various stores here. You be the judge and jury on this.

Rabu hina (Love hina in english)













Chobittsu (Chobits in english)














Sukūru Ramburu (School rumble in english)














Nothing to graphic here right?
Well, it is questionable. If you feel sexually arroused by these pics then you might be a pedophile, according to a man working as a deputy assistant under secretary on the justicedepartment, he answers on the question - What is porn?; "The picture has to be sexually exciting. Different people are ofcourse stimulated by different things, but the purpose has to be to arouse sexuality."

In the closing verdict on the man, the verdict says; " Artistic freedom is only for those who paint."

So, if you feel aroused by the pics shown above... do Not come to sweden.

So, we can put these "childporno" pics in one corner and compare them to something else. Like comics that really are drawn for children

You are intitled to be upset, or you simply just see what I see; comic carachters..?
No skirt, no underwear


Tiny skirt


The bear with the tiny skirt in bed(!!!!!!!!) with a male bear...










It gets "worse"










Marie Eneman, Ph D Candidate in Informatics and Lecturer at the department of Applied IT says about the verdict; "We have to investigate what we are doing. Are we trying to criminalise thoughts?"

Conclution: Welcome to 1984.

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Sabbar Kashur, jailed and convicted of rape.
The alligation; he was a arab (Palestinian), his "victim"? A jewish woman.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/07/21/2010-07-21_arab_sabbar_kashur_jailed_after_duping_jew_into_consensual_sex_in_east_jerusalem.html

"
Tzvi Segal, one of three judges in the case, said even though sex had been consensual, the woman never would have said yes if she knew Kashur was Arab"

Conclution: Buy the DVD Marock, a movie that will teach you all something.
Review here.
http://pekinobo.blogspot.com/2010/05/marock.html

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So to sum this post up so no wrong facts or ideas may starts to florish on the net.

1. Comics is comics.
2. You can convict someone for rape if he has said something in familuar to "I´m great in bed, let´s have sex" and later on you start thinking, "well I give him a 8 out of 10". So, he wasn´t perfect, SUE HIM!!!!
Or, he didn´t have the job he said he had, infact he flips burgers on Burger king and Not on McDonalds.
3. Marock is a GREAT movie.
4. F U all NAZIS and RACISTS

Note.
No links for the manga/childpornography issue, becouse the links are all in swedish and no english, french, japanese, korean links can be found.

And, more movie reviews to come.

Dzuki Momo

"HUFF"

Anou konnichiwa dzuki yappari Yuki san "HUFF"

Furoirain yu korehodo amata.
Watashi Nakigoe sukkari di honjitsu.
Azukari goshujin ne-mu oite yahoo guru-pu izenni.
Tezawari sou kokorobosoi, sou hiyaritoshita, sou nemutai.
Shikaruni, ingo suimin. ieie suimin.

Naze?

Nazenara ninnin hadazawari shuushou, senpou hadazawari kokorobosoi.

Sendo ware esupowa-ru Momo san "HUFF"
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Dzuki Yumiki.
Watashi kokorozashi tachisaru kadoguchi o-pun. Nazenara watashi shinpyou yu.
seiryoku choudai ikurakano suimin mohaya.

korehodo kokorobosoi ^n^;


Sendo ware esupowa-ru

Daisuki Momo san "HUFF"
Itterasshai ki o tsukete Momo... "HUFF"

Jack Brooks Monster Slayer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816539/

Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) is a young man with a temper that sometimes makes him extremely angry. If that has something to do with him in his youth watched his parents and little sister being slayed by a monster or the fact that he is in a bad movie, I don´t know.

The movie tries to be funny I understand that, the same monster slayer type as Buffy the vampire slayer. Jack Brooks however has a lot more PG13 violent and slime.
Sure it´s fun, if you are a teen and long back to the 80s horror movies with a lot of irony and "funny" sequences, but for the rest of us. Avoid.

Robert "Freddy Kreuger" Englund playes a professor, he has late nights classes where Jack and a bunch of other "teens" are going to. Jack is always getting in trouble or getting late to classes. So the professor wants him to visit him to see what´s wrong with his pipes. Jack is not only a young student (with beard), he´s also a plumber and he has a girlfriend; Eve (Rachel Skarsten).
While home at the professor - actually after Jack has left, a black heart is found in the backyard. A black heart that has belonged to a evil spirit.

Normal people are being possesed by the black heart and the one who has possesed first, uses tentacles to capture the students and with a gigantic tentacle penis he/it (it as in the monster) deeptroaths them so they turn into some mixture of Uruk Hai (from Lord of the rings) and the demons from Lamberto Bavas Dèmoni.
Now, the interresting thing here - tentacles and the deeptroathing thing, this would be a movie for me to enjoy right?
I can´t say I hated it, but close enough.

When the monster is deeptroathing and we see it perfectly and clear, it´s ofcourse on a male. But when a woman is being dragged closer to the monster by the tentacles, what do happen if not another scene. Same thing happens where a third victim is dragged to the monster, a girl this time also, cut.
New scene please.
So, when there is a female being deeptroathed in picture, she is allready transformed to a monster.
Sure, this movie isn´t trying to be sexistic or about demonrape or anything, but still it annoys me when movies do this - cuting away when a female is in deep trouble but a man, sure - show everything.
I understand that to get this movie a PG13 rating they couldn´t show a female in that pose, but still (I am annoying myself) it annoys me really bad.

The acting is bad, ok it´s a monster horror/comedy so the acters know what kind of acting it´s supposed to be. But it´s more silly and disturbingly bad. As for example; Bruce Campbell atleast has some kind of charm and he also has does his roles with "twinkle in one's eye" so to speak. That is something that Trevor lacks or if it´s the director Jon Knautz who have failed misserable with it, I don´t know.

It also hasn´t got any surprises at all, we understand at once how this movie gonna end up and how each and every scene gonna be.
Props though for not using so much bad cgi effects.

If you wanna see some nasty tentacles, I suggest you see The Tentacles Strike Back (the whole trilogy) and yes it´s live action or Injû gakuen the whole quadrilogy (live action) or the hentai series of six episodes.

Unforthunatly there´s a sequal for Jack Brooks coming, don´t ask me why.

Well atleast I have to be possitive in some way, no wait I give 3 possitive things about this.
1. It´s only in 87 minutes
2. I saw it for free at voddler.com
3. I´ve been warned and will Not see the sequal or the upcoming movies from the director.

Official trailer for Jack Brooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejwdhipRQJU


Official site
http://www.brookstreetpictures.com/jackbrooks/

Chugyeogja

a.k.a. The chaser
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/
In Mapo, a quarter of Seoul, some girls are missing.
Mi-jin Kim ( Seo Yeong-Hie ) a call girl recieves a call from her pimp Joong-ho Eom
( Yun-seok Kim ) a former taskforce police.
He wants her to meet a man, but, there is something fishy though by the telephone number from wich the man have contacted Joong-ho.

Mi-jin Kim













Mi-jin leaves her daughter and goes to meet the man, while driving away with the man she is being phoned by Joong-ho. He have recognised the phonenumber, a number that have some connection to several of his callgirls gone missing.

The director/screenwriter Hong-jin Na shows in his debut that this is a man to keep an eye on. His second movie The yellow sea is now under production and stars both of the male stars from Chugyeogja.


As much as it may sound strange, Chugyeogja reminds me quite a bit of Saw, Se7en and Martyrs.
First thing it´s a movie that are realistic and really really well acted by everyone. In some scenes and the way it ends are things that make you wonder if or maby even why movies of today has such tiny hope. It would be easy to explain what I mean, but it may also be a big spoiler if I´d tried to give a deeper review on it.
Second. It was also made in 2008, as Martyrs, they both where screened in Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival and in Cannes.

Not only is it a brutal vision of a society - the police, the government lack as much humanity as the serialkiller does, well in some points that is. It is also a sad movie, told in an oldfashion drama the asian way (for those of you who have seen asian dramas you know what I mean).
As an example is when Joong-ho drives his car, shouting in his cellphone, the rain pooring down, violin music is played and beside him in the car Mi-jins daughter cries her heart out.

It is a beautiful shot movie and mixes it with dark scenes - dark as in the same style cinematography - as for example the first Saw movie or for that matter Martyrs. The absent of so-called “ living colours “ in the bathroom scene gives it a dirty feeling.














It is however a classic “ cat - mouse “ thriller but it is also a movie about the downfall of a society. It might not be obvious for some who see this movie, for some it´s more understandable.

So if you are into darker serial killing movies that are based on real events or just feel that you wanna see one of the last decades best thrillers this is the one to get.

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- Don´t let him be suspicious. You die if you screw up.
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- Do you know Ji-young?
- Sob…
- Haven´t seen her in a while have you?
- sob sob
- Hush hush. She kept screaming, so I cut her tongue out.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAwfNdv0cs

Official sites
Japanese
http://www.chaser-movie.com/

French
http://www.hautetcourt.com/fiche.php?pkfilms=145

Info about the real events.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/yoo_young_cheol/1.html

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/05/113_49958.html

http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Chaser

Vive La Révolution

221 years ago; in 1789, the first off, so far two revolution in France took place. The Bastille was stormed by an uprising and angry, hungry and frustrated mass of people.

The second, it started with Gaspar Noés 2002 masterpiece Irréversible.

Le temps détruit tout - Time destroys everything

Time destroys everything, indeed it does.

Now I am a man for peace and not a man of historical knowledge, however... the times we all faces today all over the world; echonomic disaster, politicals lack of humanity, the ever growing greed of wealthy men & women. I am surprised that people haven´t uprised earlier - if we don´t count the cinematic revolution that is.

It is more or less the same situation today as it was back in 1789. The upperclass, the nobles, the rich people was living in luxury when the not so lucky ones had a huge tax due to foreign war (the american civil war for example).

When or if is the third revolution take place?
Or has it allready started?

On November 2 2005 the french Molins and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy wanted the streets of Paris to be cleared with a hose. Why?
Thursday 27 October 2005 two young boys where killed by the police. It started a wave of uprising, riots held on for ten days until Nicolas Sarkozy maintained that "the dead teenagers had not been "physically pursued" by the police" This however was untrue.

The head of the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux found no Islamic factor in the riots, while the New York Times reported on 5 November 2005 that "majority of the youths committing the acts are Muslim, and of African or North African origin" local youths adding that "second-generation Portuguese immigrants and even many children of native French have also taken part."

The February 23, 2005 law on colonialism, voted by the UMP conservative majority, stating that the "positive consequences" of colonization must be taught to students, created a wide uproar, including among many university teachers outraged by what they have called a mark of "historical revisionism", and an infringement on the legal principle of academic freedom.

On November 2 2005, Washington post wrote "But the revelations of widespread prisoner abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. military -- which operates under published rules and transparent oversight of Congress -- have increased concern among lawmakers, foreign governments and human rights groups about the opaque CIA system"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html

So where these single events? That had no connection to one another?
Did they happen for a reason?

And most importantly; have the leaders not learned anything?

Paris, the mother of city protests - every year approximantly 1.000 protests is held - Every Year. The french knows their rights and their rights have once again been neglected as well for the rest of us.

Will we maby have to face another May 1968 protest? Where 10 MILLION people protested. In 2008... a man named Nicolas Sarkozy said that '68 legacy should be "liquidated" once and for all."

Maby the people do have had enough, not even in the world of cinema.

Désobéissance
Protestations dîtes criminelles si tu les as outragés
Ils mentent lorsqu'ils disent que le mal-être n'est que passager
Puis s'étonnent quand la nature se rebelle comme un peuple enragé
Ils disent être transparent alors que de sang, leurs mains sont tachées

World cup final 2010

It started with a knock out and it ended with a kiss.

First thing first, I didn´t chear for anyone going into the final Spain vs The Netherlands.
I thought, ok it´s the world cup so why should I not watch it. So I did and what I saw as for aproximantly 1.000.000.000 people saw the match; wich is 1/6 of the population on the planet.

What we saw was a knock out.














It continued with brutal tackles























































It ended however, with a kiss
















The match itself, was it as brutal as the images shows?
Was the dutch playing unfair?
Where they (the dutch) willing to do anything to win the final?

Well I wont answer that, I simply focus on the quote from Arjen Robben " won't mind winning ugly"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100709/ap_on_sp_so_ne/soc_wcup_netherlands_robben

Well Arjen, your team played not only ugly, you played brutal and you lost.

But, as most of us know the world cup happens only every 4th year and how many chances do you get to play the final in your career? Not many.
And, only 1 red card? To me it doesn´t matter what is a stake. World Cup or a match in the 3rd division in Luxemburg. His (the judge) possition and job is to make sure the match isn´t going out of hand and that no player is seriously harmed. He, aswell as the dutch failed missarably...fortunately no one was harmed. If you not count us fotball lovers who have wanted to see a fairplay a fair game. This was Not fotball - this was brutallity.

Make your chance memorable

Old drawings

Just so you have something to look at.

This one was made back in 2006

















This on back in 2004

Shan kou

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095162/
a.k.a. Beasts; Flesh and the Bloody Terror; The Beasts
A classic Hong Kong category 3 rape revenge movie.
Ah Ling ( Ching Yee Chong ) and her older brother Ah Wa is going out to the small village Kau Wah Shan with their friends to camp.
Ling packs her pillow and her teddybear; the pink panther - a clear message that she is really young, don´t worry though, Ah Ling is older then that sounds. As you might have guessed - Ah Ling gets raped - gangraped.

At the small village some guys live, they are lowlifes more or less, stealing hens from the villagers etc and their friends Mo (alltough credited as Moe in imdb link) is a bit chubby/slow in the head and they taunt him. Mo is also, the conscience of the group - in the same way as Matthew was in I spit on your grave for example.

Ling with Pink Panther















Mo ..what re you doing?














The gangrape

Ling survives the gangrape and later on ends up crazy, we see her sitting in a white padded room, her father - called Pa (as in papa) also looses his mind and sets out to Kau Wah Shan to get the beasts ….

Poor Ling getting raped












We who have seen CAT 3 Hong Kong movies before, we know that they use sound effects in a special way. In Shan kou they increase the sound when they rip Ah Lings underwear apart so it more spounds like a whiplash.
After the rape, wich takes place by the waterfall, we see briefly the water turing red for a second.




















Beside the brutality there is a really funny scene in Shan kou, where the five beasts are at a local pub on of the rapists try to pick girls up - he finds one that interrests him, so he leans down and smells her butt and she accidently farts in his face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mliC00738

What isn´t so funny though, beside the gangrape, is the animal cruelty - beheading a snake for example. I really don´t see any point of that, in any movie. But beside that, Shan kou is a movie to get.



From funny we go to the scary, this time Snake.....














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No one comes her for camping.
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Stop it, it´s enough.
No, it´s not enough.
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He was the one who raped me
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Couldn´t find any trailer, the only clip is the funny scene from the pub wich is linked above.

Note. The version I reviewed is only 86 minutes and the uncut is in 90 minutes.