Battle Royale – Director’s Cut (Japan, 2000) – Tuesday 30 October 9.30pm In the near future, Japan is near a state of collapse. To scare the citizens back into order, the government enacts the Battle Royale Act which dictates that each year a randomly selected class of school children will be chosen for a cruel…
Mondays are thrilling on World Movies, with the Australian premiere of the Fred Vargas mysteries every week in June. These expertly-crafted stories follow Police Captain Adamsberg as he investigates all manner of crime – from the supernatural to murder most foul. Vargas’ novels have won awards around the world and are brilliantly realised here for…
Movies about murders taking place in isolated forest cabins can be terrifying at the best of times. But The Silent House takes it to the next level, with the entire 78-minute film being shot in one single, unrelenting take. The Russian Ark of the horror genre, the audience isn’t given even a second’s reprieve as…
World Movies celebrates Halloween with chest-thumping thrills for the ultimate Halloween scare-fest. Hideo Nakata’s Japanese smash hit, Ring, went on to inspire a Hollywood remake with Naomi Watts, but it’s the original urban myth about a soul-sucking video tape that reigns supreme. Likewise, The Grudge, about a supernatural house with an axe to grind, was…
The September issue of World Movies’ favourite film mag, FILMINK is on sale today. With home-grown Hugh on the cover, the issue includes plenty of foreign film fodder; a Russian cinema special, a story on the controversial horror movie A SERBIAN FILM, plus reviews of THE FIRST GRADER and Wim Wenders‘ 3D dance film PINA…
