There are two kinds of trailers for horror movies. There's the kind for Kelvin Tong's RULE #1 which stars Shawn Yue who seems to be in the Early Daniel Wu phase of his career (ie, appearing in every other movie coming out of Hong Kong). This is the kind of horror movie trailer that features some neat-o imagery, a lot of atmosphere and sets up some kind of mystery that you just know will have a twist ending where everything we think we know turns out to be wrong. Meh.

Or you could make a trailer like the one for ART OF THE DEVIL 3 (now with English subtitles). This is the kind of trailer that makes you freak out and sends you crawling under your desk trying to scrub what you've just seen out of your eyes. You've been warned. It's heinous.

Speaking of scrubbing things out of your eyes, Patrick Macias uses YouTube to teach us about Japan's number one yakuza actor, Riki Takeuchi's new career: singer. It hurts! It hurts! (Read more here)

Jason Gray reveals that Takeshi Kitano is already in production on his new movie about a painter who can't sell his work.

Korea's THE CHASER has become the break-out hit of the year in Korea thus far, and it's all set to either get much bigger or fade away this week as it expands. Mark Russell has a review and here's the trailer.

Wisekwai has written a positive-with-reservations review of the indie Thai horror movie THE 8TH DAY which has a trailer up online.

And check it out: Bai Ling isn't getting charged with anything following her recent shoplifting arrest. The prosecutor has declined to file charges according to her very own blog.