It doesn’t have to be winter for you to feel a chill passing through you as you watch any of the films in this collection. These films are dominated by characters whose view on life would give anyone the shivers. They offer startling portraits of the 16th and 17th century, as one band of mercenaries seek their fortune deep in the jungles of the Amazon, and a woman experiences ecstasy in behaviour she has spent her life repressing. A couple who have lived more centuries than they care to remember now seek solace from a constantly changing world, while a curse rather than a killer may be the horror terrorising the inhabitants of a rural Korean town. There’s a woman in a forced marriage who finds the only way to escape it is to break the law and a cop who has forgotten when she first crossed that line. And a gang of killers hang out on the Japanese coast, awaiting their fate, while a rabble of ex-cons plan that one last job…
