Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (EN)

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Movie Title: Cirque du Freak : The VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT
Language: English
Release Date :  23-Oct-2009
Movie Duration : 109 mins
Genre : Fantasy-Adventure

Synopsis
This is a tale of a teen boy, Darren, who unknowingly get himself involved in a 200 yrs old truce between two vampire clans. It all began when he invited himself into a Freak Show and stole something from a vampire named Larten Crepsley. Tale twisted here and there where it ends up Crepsley turned him into something bloodthirsty in order to save his best friend.



Official Website
http://www.thevampiresassistant.net/

Ayashi's Review
Ratings: 6.5/10
If you like Harry Porter, then this may be your type of movie. At least I find it better than Harry Porter. While doing research, I'm surprise this  is also illustrated in J-manga. You may view online manga from here ... 

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The Tooth Fairy (EN)

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Movie Title: TOOTH FAIRY
Language: English
Release Date : 15-Jan-2010
Movie Duration : 102 mins
Genre : Comedy / Fantasy

Synopsis
Derek Thompson (The Rock) is a hockey player, not believing in any children fairy tale. One night, after an argument with his girlfriend with regards of tooth fairy tale that the daughter was so believing in, Derek was summoned into the heavenly tooth fairy fantasy world. He was punished to carry out tooth fairy duties for not believing and being dream crusher to children's hope. And the comedy starts ...

Official Website
http://www.toothfairy-movie.com/

Ayashi's Review
Ratings: 8/10
Disney-like kids movie type. But funny movie that will not regret watching in cinema.

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AVATAR (EN)

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Movie Title: AVATAR
Language: English
Release Date : 10-Dec-2009
Movie Duration : 162 mins
Genre : Adventure / Magical / Romance

Synopsis
Human soldiers & scientists travelled through space and set foot in the Planet - Pandora. Reason is they had found a valueable type of mineral called unobtanium. Thus, the birth of project hoping to negiotiate and persuade the Na'vi (inhabitants of Pandora), so that they shall move allowing for human's excavating purposes. Scientists grow Na'vi-human hybrid bodies called "Avatars" where it can be operated via mental link by genetically matching humans. With such, negiotiation will be easier.

The patrogonist - Jake Sully joined into this mission, in place of his belated twin brother, also with the award of getting his legs back if successful in this Gov't mission. The mission main objective is learn Na'vi inhabitants way of life, relocate them for humans and eventually to negiotiate. Basically, a spy. Otherwise war shall commence. However, in midst of his mission, Jake find himself in love with the Pandora mystical environment and their way of life. His mission objective is in blurry view to him now. What will he do?

Official Website
http://www.avatarmovie.com/

Ayashi's Review
Ratings: 7.5/10
The story, effects, actings - all look good to me. Truly enjoy this movie. Even better if it's with 3-D effect.

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Anime - Kaidan Restaurant (怪談レストラン)

The official website for Toei Animation's television adaptation of the Kaidan Restaurant (Thriller Restaurant) horror storybook series has opened with a 15-second promotional video. (In the linked page, select the television icon on the bottom.) The anime will premiere on October 13.

Each episode will consist of three stories or "dishes": the appetizer, the main dish, and dessert. The first two "dishes" will deal with an ordinary sixth-grade schoolgirl named Ako Ōzora and the bizarre occurrences that befall her and her classmates. The third "dish" will be a standalone short ghost story told by Ako and her friends.

Miyoko Matsutani (Maegami-Taro, Mizu no Tane, Taro the Dragon Boy) has been editing the books since 1996 with illustrations by Yoshikazu Takai and Kumiko Kato, and Doshinsha has published over seven million copies so far. Yoko Ikeda is directing the anime version, and Shoji Yonemura (Guin Saga, Glass Fleet, Stitch!) is supervising the scripts.

Image © Miyoko Matsutani, Thriller Restaurant Team/TV Asahi.
Info from Animenewsnetwork.com

Characters Profiles :

Shou Koumoto
A transfer student who is having the same class with Ako. Even without the help from his friends he can still handle things by his own. Loves horror stories, and research about the horror information all around the world.



Ako Ouzora
A primary student in YamaSakura School. Nickname is "あんこ"(Japanese sweet beans?)Loves to daydreaming and her dream is to become a adventure novelist. Dislikes scary stories, but full of curiosity which can't help checking the truth.



Reiko Sakuma
An class officer who doesn't believes thing without scientific analysis proves. Somehow, it seems like she picks on Ako for some reasons.



If you wanna tried out the anime, just watch on the youtube below which the first episode is actually separated into 2 clips. And oops, no subtitles :P








Originally posted in lookyloop.blogspot.com :)

Official site

Phobia 2

Phobia 2(of course a horror movie), I loving it ^_^ and makes me more exciting was that me and my friends were watching it in the cinema(splendid scary effect).

In my opinion, the first Phobia wasn't good at all. The first one has the 4 stories in it, and which is why the nick name was '4bia' a.k.a Phobia. However, effect wasn't that good, not too much good storyline at all and most importantly is, not scary.

But after watching Phobia 2, I got to say that I really enjoyed it with my friends which makes me believe most of the Thailand horror movies have a very good storyline.




Phobia 2 is dissected into 5 shorts stories; Novice, Ward, Backpackers, Salvage, and In The End. Below is the details of each stories from wikipedia.


Novice - a Film by Paween Purijitpanya
The story focusing on a 14 year old; Pey, who has committed a crime Pa-Hin (throwing rocks) (being on the motorcycle throwing rocks to the cars windshield waiting for the car to crashed then steal money and other valuable items from the owner) and in order to keep the news low his mom decided that Pey must get ordained to become a buddhist novice to escape the crime he committed, under the guise of a monk, Pey remains unnoticed as a criminal. However, something deep down inside is bothering him. As he spend the night in the woods trying to meditate something is bothering him, his thoughts and something else. The grip of fear tightens as he realizes that 'Karma' has no friend or foe when deciding a man's fate or fortune.

I.M.O.- I somehow can felt and imagine the sorrow of the boy who regret so much of what he had did and caused the accident. It wasn't really a good ending for this, but it sends us a message related about 'Karma'. You cannot run away from 'Karma' if you're carrying a sin which you can't even face it... what am I trying to explain? Nvm...



Ward - a film by Visute Poolvoralaks
Arthit; a playful teenager crashes his bike and breaks both legs. At the hospital he has been moved from the ER room to a shared room. In the room, there is an old man in a coma who has been waiting for almost a month for his family to decide to pull the plug on his oxygen. What happens that night will make Arthit realize that being alone is always better that being around bad company.

I.M.O.- This drives me, a little bit sleepy. It just has those shocking sound all of a sudden and doesn't have much story at all.



Backpackers - a film by Songyos Sugmakanan
Upon graduation, a young Japanese couple decided to travel around Thailand by backpacking. After failed attempts to hitchhike from Samui island to Bangkok, the boyfriend waves a 1,000 Baht note in hopes to entice passing cars to pick them up. What is hiding inside the truck's trailer? Is there something deeper and darker that lurks behind the kind smiling face of the truck driver who lets them hop in? The answers to these questions will cause an adrenalin rush like no other.

I.M.O.- Zombies from Hong Kong, US and China I've seen it all, but not for Thailand -.- And this is the first time I'd see those zombies can run faster than a van. Quite scary, isn't it?



Salvage - a film by Parkpoom Wongpoom
Nuch is a car dealer. She makes her living by rebuilding severely damaged cars. But little do unsuspecting bargain hunters know, beneath the new upholstery and shiny repainted exteriors are cars with horror pasts. One night after closing the car garage she discovers her son is missing. Reviewing the security camera tapes she sees her son climb inside a car that she recently bought but nowhere on tapes has him climbing out "Cemetary Garage" where you drive off with more that you bargained for.

I.M.O.- This is the one which freak me out amongst the rest. The best scene was when all the luxury cars which had repaired and looks like a brand new cars suddenly turned to a crashed cars in a blink of an eyes. It freak me out because I'm using a secondhand car, -.- touch wood first.



In The End - a film by Banjong Pisanthanakun
Ter, Puak, Shin and Aey are the movie crew of an upcoming horror movie. They are shooting their last scene. On the last night, Puak is trying to be cool and tells one of the sick cast members that, "the show must go on". So when that actress accidentally dies during the filming she makes sure to come back from the dead to finish her role. The four of them must shoot the movie that has a real ghost playing the role of ghost in the end. and the main actress must not know about this.

I.M.O. - Extremely funny and one of the most creative horror movie I've seen. It's a hormedy (horror + comedy). Widely recommend to everyone, even to those who doesn't like horror at all.


Sanakan's Review
Ratings: 9.5/10
I like 'em all, and highly recommend to those horror movie freak like me. The stories have their own reason behind and it's worth to buy the Dvd for a collection. Just watch. ^^

Where Got Ghost? (EN)

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Movie Title: Where Got Ghost?
Language: English
Release Date : 13-Aug-2009
Movie Duration : 106 mins
Genre : Horror / Comedy
Country / Origin: Singapore Jack Neo's Film

Synopsis
(Extracted from Wikipedia)

The film is about 3 horror tales with Singaporean humour. The film consists of three horror tales which include, "Roadside Got Ghost", "Forest Got Ghost" and "House Got Ghost".

Roadside Got Ghost (with Spoiler):
Swindlers Cai, Fu and Shou devise a new scam - using a hotline to make random calls to people, promising them fortune. Those who win the lottery are required to pay commission to Cai or be scared into submission. This initially works and the three set up a company, which was largely successful. One day, Cai receives a phone call. The caller gives Cai deploying the same hotline trick. Believing it to be a competitor, Cai naturally disregards the call, but goes ahead and tries his luck with the given number anyway. To his surprise, he wins. On his way home, a pale faced man suddenly confronts him and asked him why didn't he pay the commission. After teasing the man and refusing to pay, the man threatened that Cai will be killed by a car. Although Fu and Shou starts to get nervous, Cai just laughed and ran into the middle of the road, proving that he won't be killed. Ignoring the pleas or Fu and Shou not to act like a mad man, he really gets killed, being crushed by a car. As Cai is dying, the driver of the car was revealed to be a spirit who tells Cai never to eat her oranges again. Cai realised he had been turned into a scapegoat after Fu and Shou took oranges from a burial, which angered the spirit. Fu and Shou gets frightened out of their wits and ran away, leaving Cai behind. In the ending scene, oranges starts to get attracted to Cai, leaving an orange background and a dead Cai in the middle.

Forest Got Ghost:
Nan and Lei return for army reservists' training. They learn that the place they will be sent is the widely known 'haunted hill', so they take the short cut. Suddenly, the 'haunted hill' seems to come alive - tombstones, red dress spirit and other strange sightings. Then it rains. Nan and Lei seek refuge at Yin Yin's house, a girl they just met. Little do they know their road to hell has been cut short...

House Got Ghost: It is the Lunar 7th Month, weird sightings happen at home, children can only think it is the late mother's doings. The truth slowly surface as they begin their road trip only this time it seems to be more than what they bargain for...



Ayashi's Review
Ratings: 7.5/10
Watched this movie at home in mid of Dec-09. Don't get fool that this movie is all about comedy. Part 1 & 2 is quite scary, tho there are still some hilarious silly scenes.  

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Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen (EN)

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Movie Title: TRANSFORMERS : Revenge of the Fallen
Language: English
Release Date : June-2009
Movie Duration : 150 mins
Genre : Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure

Ayashi's Review
This is one of the best movies I have watched so far during my holidays. Not writing any synopsis for this movie. You gotta watch this yourself! Regret not watching it at cinema :(

Rating: 9/10

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