ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he’s seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza? Or is it some other deadly variety of virus?

Everyone is on about 3D. In the cinema, at home with a new flat-screen TV, and most of the time with expensive 3D googles. But when the decision was made to create the first 3D J Horror, surprisingly the big minds behind the picture weren’t interested in cutting edge technology.

Every now and again a movie is made that is so abundantly mental, so skull bludgeoning in its sheer depth of illogic, that you instinctively know there is but one nation that could have birthed the mutant freak and brought it kicking and screaming out of said nation’s B-Movie nether regions and on to a [...]

Manga has been responsible for some pretty amazing animated films, some of these have have managed to receive mainstream recognition (Akira, Fist of the North Star) and many have served to influence live action movies over the years. More recently Manga too have been creating live action movies themselves and to a mixed reception.

Yes, you read it right. There really is a film called Big Tits Zombie. It all sounds a bit like a weird joke, but when you look at names of director Takao Nakano’s other films, things fall into place a little.

With a title like Tokyo Gore School you may think this movie is full of giant mutated killer kids rampaging through Japan with blood sodden school satchels and not the action packed chase thriller packed with social comment it actual is. Made on a low budget this is a movie high on ideas with a [...]