The horror entertainment scene has exhibited an impressive resurgence in the last few years with quality horror books and films and many horror festivals. This, of course, is not limited to the English-speaking world, having spread to many countries around the globe, especially in Asia and Europe.

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The New French Extremity and J-horror are only some of the movements whose films have terrified and enthralled audiences, both those who need subtitles and those who don’t. We can also grasp the opportunity to remember some older foreign gems of the genre.

23:59 (2011) – Malaysia & Singapore

23;59 Ghost, poster

A jungle on a remote, isolated island? It’s like they are asking for something evil to go after them. A group of soldiers on the last few weeks of their deployment are stationed on a camp on a small island somewhere in Singapore. A weird rumour or urban legend has spread amongst the soldiers concerning a local woman who died at exactly 23:59, now returning for vengeance. Tan, the platoon’s introvert, is certain he will be next and tries to convince his friend, Jeremy, that he sees the ghost every night. Jeremy laughs off his friend’s fears until during a forest march Tan’s corpse is found, contorted and with a frozen look of fear…

Evil / Το Κακό (2005) – Greece

This was the first-ever splatter film from Greece and one of the few Greek horror films known to a slightly wider audience. While digging at a construction site in Athens, the crew finds a cave that wasn't listed on any record of the area. Out of the cave, an ancient and undiscovered power emerges that turns the workers into bloodthirsty zombies. The Evil awakens and, like a disease, starts to spread, taking over the city bit by bit. The few that survive have to fight for their lives… to the death.

One Cut Of The Dead / カメラを止めるな! [Kamera O Tomeru Na!, Lit. Don't Stop The Camera!] (2017) – Japan

One Cut of the Dead Movie Poster

What would an artist do to achieve the ultimate level of authenticity? To what lows would a horror director stoop to make the ultimate zombie film? These are questions that this film asks. Higurashi, a director, is shooting with his cast and crew a zombie film called One Cut Of The Dead at a dilapidated water filtration facility.

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After a heated argument, Higurashi fires his actors, but, to his delight, a real zombie apocalypse starts happening, and, instead of fleeing, he decides to make the most genuine zombie film in history.

Planet Of The Vampires / Terrore Nello Spazio [Lit. Terror In Space] (1965) – Italy

Mario Bava, famous as the Master of Italian Horror, directed this low-budget sci-fi vampire flick. Sometime in the future, the two spacecraft Argos and Galliot are on a mission to explore the enigmatic planet Aura that has sent a distress signal. As the Argos arrives on the planet, its crew members abruptly lose control and assault each other.

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The odd occurrence passes, but the crew quickly happens upon the crashed Galliot… with all its members having killed each other. Exploring further, the voyagers find out they’re not alone on this planet: a race of bodiless aliens lures spaceships there, hoping to get a chance to flee from their fading world.

We Are The Flesh / Tenemos La Carne (2016) – Mexico & France

We Are the Flesh image of scary man grinning into the camera in the dark.

An apocalypse, the nature and origins of which we never learn, has devastated the world. Lucio and Fauna, a brother and sister, are forced to rummage for food and find occasional shelter in an inhospitable environment.

One day they meet Mariano, who is willing to offer them both if they help him “renovate” an abandoned building into a cocoon-resembling structure. However, this is only the first of many disturbing and horrific things he wants the siblings to perform, including engaging in incestuous acts.

Creepy / クリーピー 偽りの隣人 [Kurīpī: Itsuwari No Rinjin] (2016) – Japan

Kiyoshi Kurosawa—no relation to Akira Kurosawa—one of the masters of modern J-horror and suspense, directs this twisted thriller that definitely earned its title. One year after a failed hostage mediation with a serial killer became fatal, former detective Koichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his wife move to a new place with a profoundly eccentric neighbor (Teruyuki Kagawa).

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His ex-colleagues come looking for his assistance on a shadowy case, which might be connected to the weird occurrences next door, in this ingeniously built story that interweaves plot twists and shocking revelations.

The Nightshifter / Morto Não Fala [Lit. Dead Doesn’t Speak] (2018) – Brazil

Dennison Ramalho directed this somber and sinister supernatural horror film. Young Stênio (Daniel de Oliveira) is a deputy coroner, always busy with his “clients” from the crime-ridden corners of a violent and chaotic Brazilian city.

Whenever a new body arrives on his slab, Stênio is always eager to talk… and to him, the corpses talk back. He usually does not succumb to requests from them, but he makes a few exceptions. However, when one dead man reveals to Stênio a secret about his wife, he will unfold a frantic plan of revenge and let it spiral out of control.

Raw / Grave (2016) – France

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New French Extremity is perfectly exemplified in this beautifully twisted carnival of raw imagery—pun intended. Julia Ducournau’s film follows Justine, a young veterinary student and lifelong vegetarian, who is forced to taste meat for a weird initiation ritual, but she doesn’t stop there. Its taste awakens unprecedented cravings inside her, reaching a point where meat is not enough—it must be human meat…

Renowned film critic Mark Kermode called Raw the best film of 2017. Unfortunately, in spite of enthusiastic reviews and many accolades, the movie was not nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Under The Shadow / زیر سایه‎ [Zeer-e Sāye] (2016) – Iran, Qatar, Jordan & UK

This brilliant Farsi-language film was shot in Tehran and drew inspiration both from Middle Eastern legends and the 80s War of the Cities, a series of air raids during the Iran-Iraq war. Shideh is devastated when her military M.D. husband, Iraj, is called into service. She insists on staying in the city with their daughter, Dorsa, even though missile attacks are an overbearing and constant risk.

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Amid the chaos of the fighting, Shideh and Dorsa keep feeling an ominous presence and having weird nightmares, suspecting that their house may have attracted a djinn: a malevolent entity that can possess humans…

Whispering Corridors / 여고괴담 [Yeogogoedam] (1998) – South Korea

After state-enforced censorship ended in South Korea in the late nineties, many filmmakers went out of their way to symbolically shun and condemn the rules they had to follow in their art before, and horror directors were especially enthusiastic.

In an all-female high-school in South Korea, the teacher Mrs. Park believes that a dead student, Jin-ju Jang, is “still attending high-school." She calls the new teacher to inform her but is killed by an unseen entity. Her death deeply affects the students, in combination with her replacement by an abusive teacher, Mr. Oh. The rumors start circulating that Jin-ju’s death a decade ago was caused by a teacher and she returns to exact her revenge through possessing new students…

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