The Ring had not one but two creepy children. Samara was the instigator of the curse of the videotape. Her powers were able to sear images into being real. Aiden was self-sufficient and rarely needed a guiding hand. All she wanted to do was hurt people. Many horror movies find comfort in daylight. Horror lives in a realm of darkness. Serial killers and ghosts normally only come out at night since they can hide in the shadows.
The ghosts of The Grudge are not beholden to that. Their grip on fear and rage are so astounding that they can find their victims any time, any place. She loved her son but often could not find him worth attention.
Samara was the most glaring example. She was aware of her penchant and prowess for pain, though she could not control it. This meant nothing to her adoptive parents. As hard as they tried, they hated their child and threw her down a well.
Unlike most stories surrounding hauntings, these ghosts had solid form. The rage and pain that created the curse were so visceral that it cemented their spirits on the physical plane. The ghosts contorted and squeezed into horrifying shapes and nothing could dissuade them. Also see: The Haunting. Selling point — one of the INTO team was too scared to even watch this to the end. Also see: A Tale of Two Sisters. Because of its documentary style and some clever marketing , many viewers thought this film was real when they first saw it.
But even as fiction, this story of filmmakers being terrorised in the woods is guaranteed to put you off camping for life. Also see: My Little Eye. Top quality Thai terror. After a hit and run accident, a photographer starts finding strange white shadows in all his photos. Is something from his past returning to haunt him? Also see: Alone. Think again. Still shocking after 40 years.
Also see: Dawn of the Dead. Now as far as the plot goes, it's very muddled and lacks depth. So, if you sit and think about what you are watching, you may not like the movie as much.
My recommendation is to just sit back and try not to think too much. And, for a creating a chilling atmosphere it's hard to beat this film. Both were very chilling films whose plots were't exactly deep. Was this review helpful?
Sign in to vote. I must admit that the film lost me early on and I could never catch up to what was going on but after reading a few message boards it appears this is something Japanese horror films try to do. I'm not sure if that's true or if those who said that just didn't understand the film either.
Either way, the film does what it sets out to do and that's be very creepy. I'm not familiar with the Japanese horror films but after watching this I certainly plan on seeking more out. The key thing here was the direction, which was great throughout and he did a great job at building the suspense and playing it out at the right moment. I'm not sure if understanding the story would have made me enjoy the film anymore but the chills made it worthwhile.
This is Japanese horror at its finest: shot on a minuscule budget, utilising real-life 'run down' locations, and with a cast of subtle actors and actresses fleshing out the roles. Director Takashi Shimizu seems to have cast only deeply attractive actresses in his movie, perhaps to keep the attention of his male audience, and this makes the slow-burning proceedings very easy to watch. The 'haunted house' storyline is very straightforward and there isn't much of a plot to speak of: basically, we see a series of interconnected stories showing how a series of characters are haunted.
There are a couple of ghosts; one is a cute little boy, whose manifestation mixes fear and pathos; the other is a more traditional female spirit with long, dark hair and staring eyes, the sort who inhabits every Asian horror film since the similar ghost in RING proved so successful. There are many great bits, my favourites including the duvet shocker, the television breakdown, the bloody staircase set-piece at the climax, and the bit with the three dead schoolgirls.
There's even time for a twist ending for those who like that sort of thing. SnoopyStyle 12 March The movie unfolds following different connected stories in a non-linear timeline.
It gathers and takes effect in the places that the person was alive. Those who encounter it die, and a new curse is born. The acting is subpar to fair. The creepy kid and the growling sound is the only compelling aspect of the movie. The initial introduction of the kid is rather underwhelming. It doesn't help that it's in daylight in a non-interesting way. There isn't anything particularly scary in this movie.
In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina Megumi Okina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio.
Each person that lives or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears. In the beginning of the film, there is an explanation in this regard. When a person is killed in a violent way, his or her death generates a curse that will stay in the place where the crime took place.
If another person visits the haunted place, he or she will be chased by the fiends till death generating another curse. In Western cultures, the fiend is generally trapped in a haunted house, and the person is safe and sound if he or she escapes from the place.
This movie impresses because there is no bloody scene, only a tense psychological exploration of the inner fear of human beings for the unknown. The story is very simple and low paced, there are very few special effects, a great use of sound, no gore, but the creepy atmosphere is really frightening. Asiatic cinema proves again that in this moment their cinema is the number one in the horror genre.
Unfortunately, the pretentious American industry of cinema insists in remaking and spoiling these Asian masterpieces. I saw "Ju-on: The Grudge" for the first time on 02 June Today, 23 March , I have just watched it for the second time with the intention of seeing the Japanese sequel and I startled many times with this excellent horror movie.
I recalled the whole story and now I am familiarized with this Japanese belief of the Ju-on, therefore the non-chronological screenplay got better and better than in the first time that I saw. My vote is eight. Tweekums 13 April I saw the remake staring Sarah Michelle Gellar a few years ago and found it very creepy so when this version was on television I had to watch it to see how they compared.
I'm not sure if it was because I'd already seen a version of the story or because I was ready to be scared but this time was was no where near as scared, it still provided a few hair raising moments though.
The story opens with Rika, a young social worker being sent to a home where she finds an old woman, upon hearing a noise she looks upstairs and finds a cat in the cupboard as well as a small boy who she didn't notice at first, he says his name is Toshio.
Before she can ask him anything else she hears a noise in the old woman's room and finds a strange shadow by the woman, it turns and looks at her leaving her terrified. What follows are a series of incidents each linked to the house some take place before Rika's story and others years afterwards, it appears that everybody who visits they finds themselves haunted by Toshio and the strange shadow and end up dead or missing.
The episodic nature of the film seemed strange at first but there were subtle links between them such as mentioning the finding of Rika's body in one of the later chapters. Unlike a lot of horror films there is no gore and we don't actually see the victims die, the chills come from creating genuinely creepy situations, Toshio is particularly creepy even though he doesn't do anything more frightening than stare. And there have got to be at least thirty phones at the office where I work—twice that amount if you include mobiles—but I've never filled my pants when they've rung thank heavens!
If, like me, you are not in the least bit perturbed by small, pale boys with black paint around their eyes or a telephone's ring-tone, then don't be surprised if you find Ju-on: The Grudge more than just a little disappointing. Frights are limited to the aforementioned phone-calls and the little lad popping up unexpectedly, plus the occasional appearance of his equally un-scary mother who croaks like a frog whilst crawling very slowly downstairs on her belly.
Perhaps, to a Japanese person well versed in the Ju-on legend, all this might seem like seriously scary stuff, but I was bored rigid, with matters made even more irksome by the film's excruciatingly slow pace and a pointless fractured time-line that ensured maximum confusion. Quite what Sam Raimi saw in this to make him want to fund a remake I'll never know Coventry 31 December Regardless its very high ranking on the list of 'Incomprehensibly Overrated Asian Horror Flicks', "Ju-On: The Grudge" isn't an entirely bad little film at all and it certainly contains more genuinely spooky moments than any other Japanese horror films released in the last 15 years.
The problem, however, is that these spooky moments are merely snapshots and isolated images whereas the film as a wholesome is disappointingly trite and virtually plot less. The synopsis of "Ju-On" is actually no more than one phrase: "a family tragedy occurred in a house one day and the restless spirits of a murdered child and woman still dwell around", period!
The film is divided into EIGHT little chapters, all of them revolving on how a certain person a social worker, a police officer, a schoolgirl That's all, really. After approximately the third chapter, you've pretty much seen it all and you can start getting annoyed with the total lack of chronology, story-background and logic.
What exactly are the intentions of these ghosts? Why can't they find peace? All this is seemly of no importance as long as every chapter ends with a creepy scene of the ghosts scaring another person to death.
But it has to be said, it is very creepy!! It sure is better than all the "Ringu"-films, "Dark Water" and "Phone". Ju-on: The Grudge starts by informing us, the viewer that is, that 'Ju-on: A curse by someone who dies bearing a grudge'.
Once there Rika discovers Sachie living in filthy conditions so decides to clean the place up a bit but while cleaning a room she finds a young boy named Toshio Yuya Ozeki in a cupboard whom then disappears, things get even worse for Rika when she starts to see ghosts.
Maybe if you see the previous two films, which I haven't, Ju-on: The Grudge will make more sense, I doubt it though. Forget about any blood or gore, I don't think there's a single drop of blood in the entire film. The story of Ju-on began as a TV movie, and was one of the creepiest films ever made. The second TV movie continued the story but was somewhat less than what came before. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.
A visiting actress in Washington, D. And, bookending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a showdown with an old demonic enemy. A gripping story of a family in search of help for their son, Dalton, who fell into a coma after a mysterious incident in the attic. Little do they know that there is much more to this endless sleep than meets the eye as they explore the paranormal, and rediscover the past; the key to getting their son back once and for all.
A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity — a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a tragic car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body.
A bit distraught the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance. Laura decides to reopen the orphanage to cater for disabled children and throws a party.
Laura feels the presence of other people in the house and months later Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery. After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill.
However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high-speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill.
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