English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 10/23/2015
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 7/7/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
There’s nothing like a throwdown in the close-quarters confines of a subway car full of people to get the blood pumping. Check out an Exclusive Clip from director Jean-Marc Minéo’s “Bangkok Revenge” (aka “Bangkok Renaissance”, aka “Rebirth”), featuring lead Jon Foo (“Tekken”) as he takes on a couple of dudes in a two-minute fight featuring flying fists, elbows, and all manner of deadly human body parts that should leave you out of breath. Manit (Jon Foo) witnessed the murder of his parents when he was just 10 years old. The killers shot him in the head, but he miraculously survived. However, the damage to his brain left him unable to experience regular human emotions. A martial arts master saved him and took him in. Twenty years later, Manit has become a master of martial arts himself. He returns to the scene of the crime, seeking justice. Also starring Caroline Ducey,...
- 9/11/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Trained for the future. Ready for revenge. There have been a lot of films that start with the city "Bangkok" then something as the title, and here's another - Revenge. It's Jean-Marc Minéo's Bangkok Revenge, starring Thai martial artist Jon Foo (from Tekken, Tom Yum Goong) as an "emotionless war machine" who returns to the place where his parents were killed to exact revenge. Interested yet? The film's cast includes Caroline Ducey as Clara, Michaël Cohen & Kowitch Wathana, with stunts/fights by David Ismalone, from Ong Bak and Ultraviolet. They just released a short trailer and it looks pretty badass, so give it a shot. Here's the official Us trailer for Jean-Marc Minéo's Bangkok Revenge, officially on YouTube: Manit, a boy of ten years witnessed the murder of his parents. Unrelenting, the killers decide to eliminate it. Shot in the head, the child survives miraculously from his injuries,...
- 8/23/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Critics will not be able to see love story that features the king and queen of French cinema
The organisers of the Cannes festival have a habit each year of selecting one film with unusually explicit sexual or violent content. Last year Lars von Trier's Antichrist caused outrage with its portrayal of sadistic and masochistic acts, and in 2004 the British director Michael Winterbottom shocked audiences with his erotic romance, 9 Songs. Two years earlier Gaspar Noé pushed back the boundaries at the festival with Irréversible, which featured a prolonged rape scene. This year, in contrast, the festival is accused of deliberately keeping the most provocative French film of the season out of all its selected screenings.
Ça Commence par la Fin, which tells the story of the apparent disintegration of a couple's passionate physical and emotional relationship and which stars the husband and wife team Michaël Cohen and Emmanuelle Béart...
The organisers of the Cannes festival have a habit each year of selecting one film with unusually explicit sexual or violent content. Last year Lars von Trier's Antichrist caused outrage with its portrayal of sadistic and masochistic acts, and in 2004 the British director Michael Winterbottom shocked audiences with his erotic romance, 9 Songs. Two years earlier Gaspar Noé pushed back the boundaries at the festival with Irréversible, which featured a prolonged rape scene. This year, in contrast, the festival is accused of deliberately keeping the most provocative French film of the season out of all its selected screenings.
Ça Commence par la Fin, which tells the story of the apparent disintegration of a couple's passionate physical and emotional relationship and which stars the husband and wife team Michaël Cohen and Emmanuelle Béart...
- 5/15/2010
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Émilie (Julie Gayet) and Gabriel (Michaël Cohen) have just had a lovely evening together: it didn’t start out romantic, just one stranger doing a favor for another, but it’s threatening to end that way when he requests a good-night kiss from her. She must refuse, because she and Gabriel are both already involved with others, and a similar simple kiss caused enormous trouble for two of her friends. This charming and tender and wisely funny movie shifts then to Émilie’s tale of Judith (Virginie Ledoyen: Bon Voyage) and Nicolas (writer-director Emmanuel Mouret), best platonic friends whose relationship becomes something more when he starts having trouble with his sex life and looks to her for a jump-start cure. Can friends become lovers? Of course they can... but what if one of them is already spoken for? Here’s a romantic comedy like Woody Allen might make if he...
- 3/29/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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Guest of Cindy Sherman This documentary sounds fascinating. It's about Cindy Sherman, the famous multihyphenate artist, but it's also about the awkward "plus one" status of those who date people exponentially more famous than themselves. Directed by a former boyfriend of Cindy's, the artist Paul H-o.
American Swing a documentary about the swingers movement in tumultuous 70s New York
The Education of Charlie Banks is a coming of age tale set in upstate New York in the 80s. Jesse Eisenberg, so great in both Roger Dodger and The Squid and the Whale, stars. Is he about to break through to wider fame? This would be the year to do it. He's got about approximately nine pictures opening in the next 24 months. Craziness. This is Fred Durst's (Limp Bizkit) directorial debut. (Next up for Eisenberg is Adventureland with Kristen Stewart)
Shall We Kiss?...
L I M I T E D
Guest of Cindy Sherman This documentary sounds fascinating. It's about Cindy Sherman, the famous multihyphenate artist, but it's also about the awkward "plus one" status of those who date people exponentially more famous than themselves. Directed by a former boyfriend of Cindy's, the artist Paul H-o.
American Swing a documentary about the swingers movement in tumultuous 70s New York
The Education of Charlie Banks is a coming of age tale set in upstate New York in the 80s. Jesse Eisenberg, so great in both Roger Dodger and The Squid and the Whale, stars. Is he about to break through to wider fame? This would be the year to do it. He's got about approximately nine pictures opening in the next 24 months. Craziness. This is Fred Durst's (Limp Bizkit) directorial debut. (Next up for Eisenberg is Adventureland with Kristen Stewart)
Shall We Kiss?...
- 3/27/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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