Motherhood, careers and social expectation clash for one newsreader in Jung Ji-yeon’s tense psycho-thriller.
Category: Psychological
Super Me
Despite its exciting premise, the stakes have never been lower in Zhang Chong’s strange psycho-fantasy.
Homunculus
It surely shouldn’t take a fantasy psychodrama to learn that bad things happen when you drill holes in people’s heads.
Detention
In John Hsu’s adaptation of Detention the terror is frighteningly real.
Under Your Bed
Horror director Mari Asato brings us a stalker film strikingly and purposefully devoid of scares.
The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer
An icon of J-Horror tries his hand at something more psychological: how well does he fare?
Nina Wu
An aspiring actress learns that fame has a price in this tense psycho-drama.
Dark Figure of Crime
It’s unsure who is the cat and who is the mouse in Kim Tae-kyun’s psychological thriller.
Helter Skelter
Oh dear god. Well, at least they tried?
Perfect Blue
A young starlet questions reality itself in Satoshi Kon’s Hitchcockian thriller
Symbol
Coherence is abandoned for the fantastical in Matsumoto Hitoshi’s sophomore cinematic outing Symbol.
Dream Home
Pang Ho-cheung’s housing market-themed slasher film is never sure if it’s funny, scary or neither.