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King of Thorn (movie) [ adapted from King of Thorn (manga) ]

El rey espino (Spanish)
Ibara no Ō (Japanese)
いばらの王 (Japanese)
古城荊棘王 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, horror, mystery, psychological, science fiction, thriller
Themes: Dreams, Monsters, survival horror, Tragedy
Plot Summary: Medusa Virus, a sickness that turns its victims to stone, begins to ravage the people of Earth. In a desperate attempt to save humanity's future, a select group are chosen for the only cure: cryogenic sleep for many years into the future. The groups are chosen and put to sleep, only to wake up early to a nightmare: freakish creatures are destroying the cryo facility that the chosen survivors have awoken in. Without knowing what these creatures are, why they are being attacked, or even the condition of mankind, the remnants of civilization must band together and fight these monsters in order to survive and escape the cryogenics facility in an attempt to discover what exactly has happened to the Earth since they entered their exclusive slumber.
User Ratings: 621 ratings have been given [details]
Masterpiece: 45 votes (sub:37, dub:6, others:2
Excellent: 111 votes (sub:94, dub:14, others:3
Very good: 188 votes (sub:129, dub:47, ?:2, others:10
2 French dubbed
1 German subtitled
1 Turkish Sub subtitled
Good: 140 votes (sub:93, dub:36, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:9
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
Decent: 77 votes (sub:49, dub:16, raw:1, ?:1, others:10
4 French subtitled
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Czech subtitled
So-so: 18 votes (sub:14, dub:4)
Not really good: 18 votes (sub:12, dub:4, ?:1, others:1
Weak: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:2, others:1
Bad: 8 votes (sub:6, dub:2)
Awful: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:2)
Worst ever: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 846 users, rank: #1338 (of 7439)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.419 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.7219, rank: #1672 (of 7461)
Weighted mean: 7.363 (Good+), rank: #1659 (of 7461) (seen all: 7.37 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.366 (Good+), rank: #1428 (of 5636)

Vintage: 2009-10-09
Premiere date:
2009-10-09 (Sitges International Film Festival)
2009-11-21 (Northern Ireland, Belfast, Cinemagic)
2010-01-29 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
2010-04-11 (Belgium - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival)
2010-05-01 (Japan)
2010-07-24 (Canada, Fantasia Film Festival)
2010-09-02 (Australia, Reel Anime)
2010-09-04 (USA Dallas, Texas Hyatt Regency Hotel AnimeFest 2010)
2010-09-12 (New Zealand)
2010-12-15 (Malaysia, TV3)
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