Horror Films at VC FILMFEST 2006!
 

VC FILMEST: The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (May 4-11)

Friday, MAY 5 - 12:00 MIDNIGHT - Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre

http://www.vconline.org/ff06/prog_07.html

THE ECHO (Sigaw)

(Philippines, 2004) Dir.: Yam Laranas

Marvin, a young man, moves into a unit of an old decrepit apartment building. He doesn't really want to live there, but it's his way of expressing his independence from his mother. Every night, he hears awful sounds of abuse emanating from his neighbor's apartment. The noise turns out to be an abusive cop who frequently beats his wife in front of their young daughter. Marvin's girlfriend, Pinky tries to talk him into moving, but he won't let fear get the better of him. When Marvin begins to see flashes of the neighbor's daughter drenched in blood, he begins to worry about his sanity. But there are far worse things than madness at work in his apartment complex. Marvin and Pinky must now confront the evil in the apartment building or be forever haunted by its secret.

35mm, 105 minutes, color, narrative, in Tagalog w/E.S.

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Saturday, MAY 6 - 12:00 MIDNIGHT - Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre

http://www.vconline.org/ff06/prog_24.html

REINCARNATION (Rinne)

(Japan, 2005) Dir.: Shimizu Takashi

Japan's foremost cinematic master of the macabre, Takashi Shimizu (the JU-ON/GRUDGE films, MAREBITO), returns to Danger After Dark with this SHINING-like tale of a hotel haunted by its violent history. With this, his new film, Shimizu has delivered a surprisingly traditional, linear ghost story that may be his most accessible film to date-and also one of his scariest. Actress Nagisa is hired to star in a new horror film that will recreate the actual mass murder that occurred in a hotel decades earlier, where a professor slaughtered eleven people. Nagisa is slated to play the professor's murdered daughter, and when the film crew settles into the original, now-abandoned hotel that housed the actual murders, Nagisa finds herself haunted by images of the murders that occurred years earlier...and she also comes across a camera that may contain undeveloped footage of the crimes themselves. While Shimizu's earlier films were principally collages of jolts and shocks that gave little importance to linear narrative, REINCARNATION represents the director's most engrossing storyline yet, and the film is wholly engaging on the level of a suspenseful mystery. You won't jump in your seat so much as you'll be riveted into it.

35mm, 95 minutes, color, narrative, in Japanese w/E.S.

Whoopy.

:rolleyes:

I thought this was about my halloween filmfest I'm having this year....